Waking the Village

Live In House Manager for Community of Young Parents and Children Overcoming Homelessness

Overview of Responsibilities and Duties:
Waking the Village provides housing, wellness, and support programming for youth and children overcoming homelessness. Our Tubman House program provides a safe home for young parents, ages 18-24, experiencing homelessness. The House Director lives with young parents and their children in a transitional living program. Tubman House is full of life as young parents work, heal, attend college, and lead service projects while their children fill the house with questions and giggles. The House Director partners with youth to build a warm home culture that nurtures all those living there through traditions, rhythms, and the development of communicative, responsive relationships.

The House Director is a key presence in the evenings between 6 pm and 11 pm 6 nights a week. House Directors live on site to maintain a continuity of relationship and community. Monday through Friday, our team of Youth Development Directors are on site to support youth as they pursue their goals.

House Director Duties:
● Guide youth in meal making, parenting and household management. The House Director also tackles the weekly grocery shopping trip.
● Partner with youth to create a warm, well managed home environment and resolve conflicts.
● Take care of occasional emergencies such as taking expectant mothers to hospital.
● Guide weekly youth-led house meetings.
● Guide youth in maintaining health, cleanliness, and rhythms of their community each day.
● Communicate with day staff to facilitate the development of a strong team.
● Attend staff meetings, interviews for potential residents, and other meetings when possible.

Hours of Work: Active, paid hours are 6 pm- 11 pm 6 nights a week. This gives you the freedom to have another job or pursue your education during the day.
House Directors live on-site and have a private bedroom and bathroom. Between 6 pm to 11 pm, some hours will be in direct engagement with youth as meals are prepared and/or shared, chores supervised, weekly house meetings led, or weekly shopping completed. Some of these hours will simply require the House Director to be on-site and available for support if requested by residents. The House Director may adjust her schedule and be off-site in the evenings for occasional personal events through arrangement with the staff. Sleep hours (from 11 pm to rising) are unpaid. If an emergency arises in the middle of the night, hours worked are paid.

Safety Protocols During Covid19
During the current pandemic, we are requiring all new residents and staff to take a test prior to joining the community. The only people entering the house are those who live on site. Youth agree to safety protocols when away from the house, assessing risk and determining safety protocols constantly. When away from the house, youth wear masks, socially distance, and avoid areas that are crowded and not well ventilated. Upon return, youth change clothes and remove shoes. Daily youth development staff engage youth through distance platforms to pursue goals.

Essential Qualities
*Strong Ability to Build Partnerships with Youth and Parents: Warmth and an ability to connect with youth and children are essential.
*Professional: An ability to establish healthy, clear boundaries and model emotional intelligence is essential
*Joyful: Our young parents and children rely on us for smiles, hearty hellos, and a positive attitude that never quits.
*Inclusive: We respect the choices our residents make. We respect their cultures, their histories, their religious beliefs or their atheism, their politics, their sexual orientation, and their visions for the future. Roughly half of the youth we serve identify as LGBTQ+.
*Desire to be a part of a work environment where every person supports, encourages, problem solves, and envisions growth together.
*Willingness to embrace and address each day's challenges be they a sick child, a discouraged resident, a troublesome computer, or a dead car battery. We are looking for a director who can solve problems and who addresses needs as they arise, rather than one who simply reports problems.

Additional abilities required by the position
* Ability to lift at least 50 pounds
*Ability to determine own physical limits so that injury does not result when leading service projects, recreation, or program activities.
*Ability to walk up and down stairs or a request for an accommodation
*Ability to safely transport self and others in agency vehicles
*Ability to manage stress of multi-tasking, leading youth, and counseling youth
*Ability to establish healthy boundaries and maintain personal wellness while shepherding clients through past and current experiences of trauma.

Requirements: Experience working with youth and children is preferred.

Compensation: $16 an hour. House Director's receive medical benefits, Delta Dental, and Copower vision and life insurance coverage with 70% of premium covered by agency with $500 cap. Free room and board. This is a permanent 30 hour a week position. House Directors are also encouraged to attend the staff meeting and paid for those hours weekly.

How to Apply:
Please send a resume and a cover letter to admin@wakingthevillage.org. We read cover letters carefully and appreciate the time taken to share your work experience, strengths, and workplace goals. We will be reviewing applications and calling to schedule interviews with selected applicants in November.

We are also opening a shelter in January 2021 and will be hiring two more House Managers for a program very similar in structure that serves young parents. Please indicate in your cover letter if you are available for a December or a January start date.

Nonprofit Overview: Waking the Village operates programs for youth (18 to 24 years old) and children overcoming homelessness. Learn more at www.wakingthevillage.org and on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Waking-the-Village-Tubman-House-Audres-Doorway-the-Creation-District-340042712682366

Equal Opportunity Employer
Waking the Village is an equal opportunity employer and service provider. WTV believes that all people are entitled to equal opportunity for employment or connection to services provided by our agency. We follow state, local, and federal laws prohibiting discrimination in hiring, employment, and service provision. We do not discriminate against employees, clients, volunteers, or applicants in violation of those laws. We extend this policy to volunteers and interns working for Waking the Village and all clients served by our agency. Waking the Village reaffirms its long-standing policy prohibiting discrimination in employment and the provision of services on the basis of the fact or perception of: Race, Color, Ancestry, National origin, Religion, Sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), Disability, Age, Citizenship status, Genetic information, Marital status, Sexual orientation and identity, Gender Expression and Gender Identity, AIDS/HIV, Medical condition, Political activities or affiliations/ opinion, Military or veteran status, Status as a victim of domestic violence, assault, or stalking.