Shelter Assistant 

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Help to maintain a clean, sanitary, comfortable, orderly, and safe facility
• Clean walls, mirrors/windows, floors, furniture, vents, bathrooms, and other areas in common areas (to include dusting, mopping, scrubbing, sweeping, polishing, pest control, and other cleaning activities); wash dishes and laundry; dispose of trash/waste and clean wastebaskets; clean spills; clean and prepare shelter rooms in between client use; replenish supplies (e.g., paper towels, toilet tissue); and demonstrate safe and proper techniques for chemical use
• Assist in managing and securely maintaining cleaning supplies; performing room checks; and performing safety drills
• Provide crisis intervention in person and via the hotline
• Typing, data entry, and other computer tasks

Mental Health Therapist 

Primary Duties:

• Create individualized treatment plans
• Conduct psychological assessments
• Provide individual, short-term, solution-focused therapy with child victims and provide separate sessions with non-offending parent/guardian to address concerns of the child
• Provide 2 therapy or psychoeducation group for child/adolescent clients and/or with non-offending parent/guardian clients and one community adult group per quarter
• Maintain a caseload of at least 12 clients
• Provide individual and group therapy for adults as caseload allows, particularly with college-aged victims
• Manage therapy supplies and assist other staff with coordinating structured children’s activities

Educator

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Create lesson plans and curriculum/content for new and revised training modules, maintain training, and organize and conduct trainings and continuing education (CE) for community members about sex education, effects of trauma, and sexual harassment, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and related forms of violence
• Organize trainings, meetings, and events; maintain training and event calendars; and maintain educational and outreach materials
• Provide at least three psychoeducation groups per quarter, to include one for child/adolescent clients and/or with non-offending parent/guardian clients in the shelter and one group for child/adolescents in the community
• Plan outreach/prevention activities and awareness campaigns, create maintain community partnerships, attending meetings held by community groups, and conduct presentations about the organization to community members
• Organize events (e.g., National Night Out Against Crime, Crime Victims’ Week events, Domestic Violence Awareness Month events, and Sexual Assault Awareness Month events)
• Manage therapy supplies and assist other staff with coordinating structured children’s activities

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