Coordinator - Time Limited Subsidy, PT Swing Shift

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Summary

The Downtown Women’s Center (DWC) seeks a part-time Coordinator to provide culturally responsive services to participants of Time Limited Subsidy (TLS)/ Every Woman Housed programs housed in the South LA buildings. This program is part of our Every Woman Housed Initiative to mobilize housing solutions for unaccompanied women from the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles. The key components of this initiative are outreach and intake, short-term housing responses, and long-term housing solutions.

Summary

The Downtown Women’s Center (DWC) seeks a part-time Coordinator to provide culturally responsive services to participants of Time Limited Subsidy (TLS)/ Every Woman Housed programs housed in the South LA buildings. This program is part of our Every Woman Housed Initiative to mobilize housing solutions for unaccompanied women from the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles. The key components of this initiative are outreach and intake, short-term housing responses, and long-term housing solutions.

The coordinator's role is to assist with onsite service coordination between program staff, work closely with an interdisciplinary direct-service team to empower residents, and build a safe community promoting housing stabilization. This includes direct support to participants residing onsite, ensuring their access to facilities and resources, and providing support and crisis intervention as needed. The ideal candidate upholds high standards of quality for supportive services and promotes housing first principles by using best practices like Trauma Informed Care, Housing First, Harm Reduction and Critical Time Intervention.

Essential Functions

• Provide culturally responsive services to residents including crisis intervention and de-escalation, service connection, conflict resolution
• Utilize evidence-based practices in service delivery such as Trauma Informed Care, Motivational Interviewing, Harm Reduction, Critical Time Intervention, and Housing First
• Ensure a safe and welcoming environment: greet guests and visitors, respond to requests, address complaints, intervene in and de-escalate situations, provide crisis intervention when needed and follow program guidelines to maintain structure and safety for residents
• Ensure the safety of the residents by conducting regular building rounds and enforce policies that monitor visitors and guests
• Develop and maintain relationships with residents, staff and local service providers and participate in community meetings
• Help inform programming that fosters a safe environment, promotes personal stability and community, including life skills workshops, community-building events
• Maintain accurate and timely records of program tracking and data, including group activities, life skills workshops and community-building events
• Participate in weekly individual and group supervision, in addition to other agency meetings and trainings as required
• Provide regular, written reports to the Time Limited Subsidy Program Supervisor and additional reports as assigned
• Provide supervision to interns and volunteers in the provision of services as assigned
• Other duties as assigned to support the mission of the organization.

• Problem Solving and critical thinking ability
• Communication proficiency
• Active Listening
• Flexibility
• Teamwork
• Customer/client service
• Conflict management
• Decision making
• Professional boundaries and self-awareness
• Reliability
• Cultural humility and responsiveness
• Attention to Detail