Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish?

YWCA SKS is the region’s largest non-profit organization with a 120 year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year. When you work with YWCA, you make a difference.

We’re women and BIPOC-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees. As a full-time YWCA employee (30 hours), you’ll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan. Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work – apply today!

What You'll Do

The YWCA Angeline’s Center for Homeless and Low in-come women supports the efforts of King County Housing Authority to ensure that homeless women with multiple barriers to self-sufficiency have their basic needs met. The goal of this program is to help women overcome barriers and secure stable and sustainable housing.

This position has a social justice component that will require critical thinking around how the external systems impact the work that we are doing through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Knowing the core principals of antiracism work and grounding those principles in everyday work, as well as working well in non-white environments and championing anti-racism policy, are required job skills and core values. As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply.

Expectations of your role:

• Recruits, screens, determines eligibility, enrolls and orients program participants
• Assesses clients’ needs (housing & employment)
• Conducts a needs assessment with each client to determine barriers to self-sufficiency
• Provides clients with support services and/or makes referrals or linkages to other community agencies to resolve barriers to housing, employment and other basic needs
• Works as a member of case management team and in concert with other community service providers to deliver support services and ensure follow -through; develops and maintains these collaborative relationships
• Maintains complete and accurate client files
• Assists in collecting and compiling client statistics and in the completion of program reports
• Keeps resource materials updated
• Meets with clients on a weekly basis, maintains case files, documents services provided and tracks client progress
• Shows demonstrated ability to interact with people of different cultures
• Continues search for understanding of racial, gender and class equity
• Adheres to all Volunteer Services protocol relative to volunteer usage, recognition, and monitoring.
• Works alongside volunteers, where applicable
• Assures that volunteers are treated with respect and dignity regardless of race, ethnic background, gender or socioeconomic background
• Other duties as assigned

• Minimum of two years working with homeless and low income women.
• Drivers license required
• Commitment to diversity
• Extensive knowledge of housing and community resources
• Ability to connect and collaborate with other agencies within the community
• Excellent written and oral skills
• Core competencies expected: Attention to Detail; Customer Service; Reliability; Professionalism; Fostering Diversity; Communication: Oral & Written; Social Justice Advocacy; Problem Solving; Coaching; Collaborative/Partnership

• Hourly Rate: $25.00
• Hours: 40 hours per week
• Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, retirement plan, plus generous vacation, holiday, and sick leave plans
• At the time of hire, employees may enroll voluntarily in the Fidelity 403b Plan
• After two years of employment, employees are eligible to participate in the YWCA Retirement Fund

• Continuously exchanges information through listening and talking with clients, agency staff, employers, representatives of community organizations and other individuals in the community
• Frequently stands, walks, sits and climbs in performing duties in the workspace and in the community
• Frequently reaches and grasps in using telephones, computers, fax machines and other office equipment and supplies
• Frequently lifts and carries up to 5 lbs. of paperwork, files and training materials
• Occasionally climbs stairs of multi-level buildings

#LI-Onsite

YWCA encourages applicants with a variety of experiences to apply!

At YWCA, we recognize that lived expertise is a powerful asset. This refers to the insights, knowledge, and skills developed by those who have navigated systems and experienced inequity.

Valuing lived expertise helps build trust with program participants, develop culturally responsive programs, and break down barriers to equity. It enriches our collective understanding and enhances our ability to serve communities that are furthest from opportunity.

Vaccination Requirement

All new hires must be vaccinated in accordance with CDC guidelines before their first day of employment.

Mental Health Considerations

All employees of the YWCA interact with clients who have experienced or are experiencing trauma in various forms, including but not limited to, racial trauma, domestic violence, sexual violence, homelessness, unemployment, and financial hardship. As a result, employees are at risk of secondary trauma. We encourage employees to seek support inside and outside the workplace and maintain self-care routines.

Equal Opportunity Employment

YWCA Seattle King Snohomish is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To read more about this, view the EEO is the Law Poster and this EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.

For more information

Contact us at careers@ywcaworks.org with any questions or if you need accommodation for your application.