The Rise Resident Advocate: is responsible for enhancing the residential stability, increasing income, increasing skill level and to promote the capacity for self-determination of resident head-of-households within the transitional housing program. The Rise Advocate provides empowering services to our residents in the transitional housing program.

Required Qualifications:

● Knowledge of the impact of domestic violence for children and families

● Must be highly reliable, professional, mature, reflective, and able to work well with others

● Excellent communication skills, empathy, self-awareness, ethical responsibility and judgment

● Excellent listening skills, problem-solving skills

● Understanding of survivor-advocate confidentiality

● Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with diverse individuals

● Proactive and passionate work ethic

● Commitment to ongoing cultural competency training and continued education

● Reliable transportation

● Basic computer/database skills

● Understand the dynamics of sexual violence

● Experience in serving or working with families experiencing domestic, sexual violence and or human trafficking, including male survivors

● Expertise in working with folks in the LGBTQIA community

● Understanding of incarceration, addiction, and recovery

● Knowledge of local community resources

Responsibilities:

· Assist residents with goal setting and development of an action plan for realizing those goals.

· Assist/build residents conflict resolution skills

· Administers strengths and needs assessments

· Provide information, referrals and advocate for residents (within the agency as well as outside the agency)

· Plans and facilitates in-house support groups, workshops, resident meetings, and service projects.

· Participates as necessary, in all programs/activities at The Rise. including but not limited to on-call and afternoon phone and door rotations.

· Participate/attend resident’s necessary appointments as needed

· Facilitate transportation to necessary appointments

· Attend all-staff meeting and other meetings as directed and or needed

· Work closely with other advocates within Middle Way House

· Data Collecting for grant reporting software

· Completing Grant reports

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $35,500.00 - $37,500.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee assistance program
• Life insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person