Summary

The Downtown Women’s Center seeks a Resident Manager to contribute directly to breaking the cycle of homelessness for women. Following a Permanent Supportive Housing model, the Resident Manager manages the daily program operations of our Residence sites. As 95% of DWC residents do not return to homelessness, the Resident Manager upholds high standards of quality for supportive services, works closely with an interdisciplinary direct-service team to empower residents, and build a safe community that promotes stabilization and housing retention. The ideal candidate promotes housing first principles by using best practices like Trauma Informed Care, Housing First, Harm Reduction and Critical Time Intervention to support tenants in maintaining their housing.

Essential Functions 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 

Competencies 

Supervisory Responsibility

This position does not have supervisory responsibilities of other staff but may provide supervision to volunteers and interns. 

Work Environment 

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role regularly uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. 

Physical Demands 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to regularly perform a building walk-through, and potentially climb stairs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. This would require the ability to lift files, up to 15 lbs, and open filing cabinets as necessary.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a part-time, regular, non-exempt position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, with weekends and evenings dependent on-site needs and staff’s scheduling abilities.

Travel

Minimal travel is expected for this position for training and enrichment activities 

Work Remotely: 

No, on-site only 

Required Education and Experience

High school diploma or GED. 

Two years of experience working with similar population or homeless related services 

Required Knowledge/Skills/Position Qualifications 

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

Oral and written fluency in Spanish and English a plus 

Pay Range 

$21.86/Hr 

Work Authorization/Security Clearance (if applicable) 

Being authorized to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment. DWC does not sponsor employment visas, such as H-1B. 

Downtown Women’s Center provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants and actively seeks candidates who reflect the rich diversity of the communities that we serve. We are committed to a work environment that embraces and promotes individuality and inclusion. We believe that diversity and inclusion of varied perspectives, backgrounds, and life experiences are essential to our organization’s effectiveness, and allow us to serve our clients in the respectful, responsive, and understanding way that they deserve. We define diversity in broad terms to include race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, mental or physical disability, marital status, pregnancy, military and veteran status, medical condition, geography, socio-economic status, and other unique attributes that make us who we are. 

Downtown Women’s Center complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.