Who you are

You enjoy cleaning, organizing, and working on a team. You take great pride in creating warm, welcoming, and organized spaces. Working at the House, you will have the opportunity to do the work you enjoy for a mission.

Who We Are

The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports seriously ill children and their families by providing housing, meals, and other essential support services at our facilities in Seattle, WA and Anchorage, AK. Each night we house 139 families, offering the comforts of home near the medical care their children need. Enabling families to stay close to their hospitalized child supports the health and well-being of the child and saves families millions of dollars in hotel and food costs each year. At the House, each of these families finds comfort, support, and hope as they navigate their child’s medical crisis. RMHC of Western Washington & Alaska is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

JOB SUMMARY

Rooted in hospitality and customer service principles, our Environmental Services Team works collaboratively to ensure a clean and sanitary home for our guest families. This is a part-time non/exempt position working Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays, 8 hours per day, and reports directly to the Environmental Services Supervisor.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

· Cleaning shared areas in the house.

· Deep cleaning and preparing guest units between stays.

· Removing trash, recycling, and compost from the building.

· Clean outside building perimeter, garden areas, and smoking areas.

· Laundering house linens.

· Transport dirty and clean linens from the main building to other buildings.

· Cleaning and vacuuming floors, using floor and carpet machines as necessary.

· Stocking chemical supply closets.

· Moving and organizing supplies and donations.

· Confident leading cleaning and maintenance volunteers and service groups if needed.

· Assisting with furniture moves and deep cleaning projects.

· Collaborate with work groups to ensure facilities projects are completed and well-coordinated.

· Refill chemical bottles and distribute cleaning supplies to the cleaning supply areas.

· Clean and pick up trash outside and around buildings including garden areas.

· Clean parking garage and parking garage stairways.

· Clean floors with floor machine, clean carpet with carpet extractor.

· Clean windows and walls.

· Cleaning kitchen stoves and hoods.

· Stewardship and cultivation of stakeholders (donors, board members, and volunteers).

· Other assignments by supervisor.

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.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

• Custodial experience
• Excellent customer service
• Understand and share the passion and commitment for our mission
• Work well independently and as a team
• Self-motivated, takes initiative, enthusiastic, takes pride in work well done
• Attention to detail, organized, skilled on multi-tasking and problem solving
• Ability to maintain guest confidentiality
• Basic knowledge on the use of chemicals and maintenance of cleaning equipment
• Availability to work overtime if required, weekends and holidays
• Dependability
• Able to perform all physical demands of the job
• Bilingual English/Spanish applicants encouraged to apply
• RMHC requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

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

• Ability to stand, walk, bend, lift and carry 25 pounds on a regular basis
• Self-confident and able to adapt to changes
• Able to build good working relationships with team members and managers
• Maintain calm while working in stressful situations
• Compassionate

Here’s why you’ll love working at RMHC:

Amazing People – We are a collective of dedicated nonprofit professionals, direct service family advocates, social workers, and bilingual housing and facilities teams that make the RMHC House a home away from home.

Caring Environment – Our House is a community where our nurturing staff support and provide services for families who are experiencing unique pediatric medical episodes in their lives; our House sparks joy and celebration to help lighten the heaviness of enduring medical treatments.

Great Location – Our House is nestled in the beautiful Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle, WA along the Burke Gilman trail and a short walking distance from Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Robust Benefits –RMHC offers generous paid time off that includes 10 paid holidays, 12 sick days, 2 personal days and vacation per our schedule (prorated for part-time employees), and 401(k) retirement savings with an employer match.

Strong History –A Home Away from Home: RMHC of Western Washington and Alaska was established in 1983 with its first House opening in Seattle and serving 22 families. Today we have three facilities in Seattle, including 10 Bone Marrow Transplant Apartments with a total of 105 rooms. Our Anchorage House in Alaska has 34 rooms and is nestled on the 6th floor of the Alaska Native Medical Center’s patient housing. Patients include expectant mothers with high-risk pregnancies as well as pediatric patients and their families.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $21.00 - $23.00 per hour

Expected hours: 24 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Paid time off

Compensation package:

• Differential pay

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Every weekend

Experience:

• Custodial: 1 year (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Seattle, WA 98105: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person