Overnight Operations Assistant

4.00 Overnight Shift Differential

We offer excellent benefits, including:

• Free Employee Medical Insurance
• Free Employee Dental Insurance
• Free Employee Vision Insurance
• Sick leave: 8 hours per month
• Vacation: Minimum of 2 weeks paid vacation
• Discounted health memberships
• Retirement: Employer contribution - 3 contribution and an additional 3 employer match
• Free Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Free Life Insurance
• 13 Paid Holidays

CCEW Mission

Feed the hungry, heal the hurting, welcome the stranger. CCEW is an equal opportunity employer. All employees and potential employees will be recruited, selected, trained, promoted, compensated, and if necessary, disciplined or terminated without regard to sex, gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, immigration status, religious affiliation, marital status, military veteran status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender expression, or identity, disability, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Job Summary

This position is responsible for assisting with the management and operation of the Catalyst service location. Catalyst provides interim housing and support services for formerly homeless individuals and couples. This position works as a member of the Operations team, supporting residents to follow program expectations, engage in services, and progress toward independent housing.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each of the essential duties and responsibilities listed below. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of this job.

• Ensures that the rules are being observed and that it is a safe environment for residents, staff, and volunteers.
• Maintains safety and security by monitoring all general access areas.
• Oversees required operations tasks during shift, including overseeing community volunteers as needed and attending the front desk, giving out mail, checking in gear, accepting donations, and answering telephones.
• Responds to resident complaints.
• Maintains relevant databases, including Catalysts internal database.
• When necessary, administers the intake forms needed for statistical and narrative reports required by the agency.
• Performs hourly walks throughout the facility to detect hazards.
• Manages all building operations in the absence of other staff as assigned.
• Intervenes in crises, responds to emergencies, and initiates action as required, including contact with emergency response systems.
• Writes significant events involving residents and building operations activities in a daily log.
• Performs other relevant duties assigned by supervisor, including but not limited to shelter cleaning, mopping, and laundry.
• Uses appropriate administrative, fiscal, physical, and technical safeguards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of CCEW client-protected health information (PHI) per regulations outlined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
• Will regularly utilize all forms of communication, including email, text, phone, etc., and database practices necessary for this position and as directed by supervisor.
• As a mandated reporter, follows all procedures outlined in agency policies and procedures to report to the proper agency when there is suspicion and/or confirmation that a child or adult has been a victim of abuse or neglect.
• Adheres to the tenets of Catholic Social Teaching and Catholic Doctrine.
• Performs as a team member to assure that productivity, outcome measures are achieved, regular attendance is particularly important for shelter safety and team dynamics.
• Performs related functions necessary to support the mission and core values of Catholic Charities.

Job Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must meet the minimum qualifications listed below.

• Education: High School Diploma or a General Education Degree
• Experience: Demonstrated leadership, management, and administrative skills. Ability to compassionately interact with mentally ill substance abusers and homeless people.
• Certificates: Valid Drivers License and ability to drive for work use. Successfully pass background check applicable to position.
• Physical Abilities: Regularly sit, stand, climb, walk, hear, listen, talk. Frequently lift up to 50 pounds, pull, push, carry, grasp, reach. Occasionally crawl, stoop, kneel. Clearly see 20 feet with or without corrective lenses, ability to focus.
• Mental & Other Skills:
• Adaptability: Ability to adapt to changes, delays, or unexpected events in the work environment.
• Analytical Ability: Ability to maintain focus for extended periods, complete research projects with resourcefulness and persistence, synthesize complex or diverse information, use intuition and experience to complement existing data.
• Attendance: Ability to consistently arrive and be able to work as scheduled. Ability to work night and weekend shifts as needed.
• Computer Technical Ability: Working knowledge of Word Processing software, Spreadsheet software, Internet software.
• Dependability: Ability to follow instructions, both in written and verbal format, ability to respond to management direction, ability to complete tasks on time or notify the appropriate person with an alternate plan when necessary.
• Interpersonal Skills: Ability to maintain satisfactory relationships with others, excellent customer service skills, and a good overall understanding of appropriate human relations.
• Judgmentability: Ability to make prudent and timely decisions, ability to exhibit sound and accurate judgment, ability to explain reasoning for decisions.
• Language Ability: Ability to read and interpret documents, such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals, ability to write routine reports and correspondence, ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Mathematical Ability: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals, ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate eyes, hands, fingers, and feet accurately and handle precise movements.
• Problem Solving Ability: Ability to identify and/or prevent problems before they occur, ability to formulate alternative solutions to problems when necessary, ability to transfer learning from past experiences to new experiences of similar nature.
• Quality Management: Ability to complete duties on time and with absolute precision, at least 95% of the time, ability to edit the accuracy and thoroughness of ones work, as well as the work of others, ability to constructively apply feedback to improve performance, ability to generate ideas to improve and promote quality in work.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form, ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Supervisory Skills: This job does not have any direct supervisory experience.

Workplace Environmental Conditions

While performing the essential duties and responsibilities of this job, the employee will be exposed to:

• Noise conditions: exposed during a shift to constant or intermittent sounds at moderate to loud levels of sound, dependent upon the daily activities.
• Exposure to Trauma: employees of Catholic Charities Eastern Washington provide direct services to vulnerable community members, including those who have behavioral health challenges and those who have been exposed to trauma.
• Heat: subject to high temperatures.
• Cold: exposed to low temperatures.
• Strong smells: such as urine or body odor.