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Join the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco and be part of the solution to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence in San Francisco.

St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco operates the Multi-Service Center - Northern California’s largest homeless shelter, Navigation Centers for chronically homeless individuals and couples and the Riley Center - Domestic Violence shelter and services for survivors. We have over 175 employees working in 4 locations. We are proud of our diversity and of our more than 150 year history of helping others in San Francisco. St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco’s mission is to offer hope and service, on a direct person to person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

SUMMARY:

The Director of Domestic Violence (DV) is responsible for a full range of domestic violence services to survivors and their children, as well as the community. The Director of DV works collaboratively with other St. Vincent de Paul Society, San Francisco (SVDP) programs and outside domestic violence-related service agencies. They develop key relationships that will further enhance services available to all survivors of domestic violence. The Director of DV is responsible for ensuring adherence to the confidentiality of survivors, policies, contracts, and budgets. This position directly supervises the Community Office Program Manager and Residential Shelter Manager. In addition, the Director of DV represents the SVDP and the Riley Center Program in the community. This is an Full-time, exempt, non-union positions working at our Domestic Violence Program sites, including the SVDP administrative office.

SALARY AND BENEFIT OVERVIEW

The salary range for this position is $95K to $115K annually DOE, Kaiser HMO paid in full for employee. Voluntary dental, life, and vision insurance. 403b retirement plan with employer paid match after 1 year of employment. Ten vacation and ten sick days accrued per year. Two personal floating holidays and twelve and a half holidays offered per year. Employee Assistance Program.

DESCRIPTIONS OF PROGRAM SERVICES:

The Riley Center Domestic Violence program (the Riley Center) is designed to strengthen San Francisco’s safety for domestic and intimate partner violence survivors by managing five individual programs. The programs include an Emergency DV Shelter (Rosalie House), a Transition Housing Program (Brennan House), the Community Office, which provides follow-up and walk-in services, Urgent Accommodation Vouchers, providing a 14-day hotel stay before entering a DV shelter, Coordinated Entry for Domestic Violence Survivors, and Emergency Housing Voucher/Housing, to assist in finding stable housing. All of these operations and supportive services combined are aimed at the goal of stabilizing and empowering survivors/clients and transitioning them into long-term shelters or housing. Supportive services include but are not limited to linkages to existing programs such as domestic violence shelters in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area, harm reduction services, public program benefits, health services, and behavioral health services. 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Development, assessment, and implementation of all domestic violence program policies and procedures within the Riley Center.
• Management of the policies and procedures of SVDP through consultation and collaboration with the Leadership Team for all major policy considerations of the organization.
• Provide guidance, leadership, and consultation to staff. Facilitate team management meetings, leadership development, and training for all staff.
• Ensure consistent delivery of all direct services, reporting of those outcomes, as required by the governmental grants supporting the programs, and meeting all goals determined in such contracts.
• Develop, adhere to, and revise all program budgets with the Finance Team.
• Write required public sector grant proposals and narrative reports in conjunction with the Development Team. Complete monthly and/or quarterly government contract reporting, as indicated in the contracts and/or appendices.
•  Represent SVDP and the Riley Center in the community. This includes, but is not limited to, the SF Domestic Violence Consortium meetings, the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, and other community partner meetings.
• Maintain Community outreach with the domestic violence community and its partners and the related Memorandums of Understanding (MOU), including aligning new relationships that foster and will further assist survivors.
•  Supervise staff, including hiring, termination, discipline, and evaluation.
• Participate in appropriate ongoing staff development and training.
• Process bi-weekly payroll using ADP Workforce Now and electronic timekeeping.
•  Work evening and weekend shifts to meet program needs.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• LCSW or MFT or Master's degree in psychology or social services, preferred, not required.
• Experience with domestic violence survivors and the issues/dynamics, especially in the context of marginalization of race, class, gender, and sexual identity is required.
• Verifiable completion of at least 40 hours of Domestic Violence Counselor Training meeting California state requirements or willingness to undertake and complete such training within the first 60 days of employment.
•  Demonstrated skills in counseling, case management, and client advocacy.
• Familiarity with the philosophy and approach of Harm Reduction, Motivational Interviewing (including the four core motivational interviewing skills, or OARS - Open questioning, Affirming, Reflecting, and Summarizing.)
• Demonstrated leadership, management, and supervision skills.
• Proven administrative and organizational skills, working with Microsoft 365 and online cloud documentation use and storage. Salesforce experience is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written English communication skills. 
• Ability to de-escalate clients in crisis, make decisions under pressure, and manage varying issues with tact and diplomacy. 
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries with staff, volunteers, and clients.
• Working knowledge of community resources, with the ability to maintain and create new partnerships in support of survivors.
• Knowledge, experience, and comfort working with a diverse community including LGBTQQ, youth, immigrants, low-income communities, and varying ethnicities.
• Proficiency in other languages, Spanish or local significant languages, a plus.
• Commitment to supporting the overall mission, core values, and vision of St. Vincent de Paul of San Francisco. 

Covid vaccination and negative result on TB test required.

Background check completed upon acceptance of job offer.

St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco celebrates diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging andis an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction.