Community Building Assistant - Chez Ami

Central City Concern • Happy Valley, OR

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Community Building Assistant supports property management and supportive housing operations at Chez Ami, a two-story alcohol- and drug-free community in Happy Valley, Oregon. The position maintains building upkeep, cleanliness, safety, and community livability; identifies and reports resident or building issues; assists residents; and coordinates with other building staff. The role requires reliability, personal responsibility, respect for established policies and processes, and a commitment to maintaining a clean environment.

The schedule is Saturday through Wednesday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with Thursdays and Fridays off. The work location is Chez Ami, 8358 SE Causey Ave, Happy Valley, OR 97086. Compensation is listed as $22.71–$30.13 per hour; the final amount depends on relevant experience, education, credentials or licensure, and internal equity. For external candidates, the offer maximum is $26.35 per hour under the union contract. This is an AFSCME-represented position and may be subject to recall rights for eligible employees previously laid off from a CCC union-represented position.

Chez Ami’s studio units are rent subsidized, with tenants paying rent based on income, and services are offered through Clackamas County Behavioral Health. Central City Concern is a nonprofit agency providing comprehensive services to people in the Portland metro area affected by homelessness, poverty, and addictions, with a mission to end homelessness through outcome-based strategies that support personal and community transformation.

Requirements

• Must be able to read, write, and understand English.
• Must not be a registered sex offender.
• Must have basic computer skills, including Word, Excel, email, and basic file management.
• Must generally be able to bend, stoop, kneel, squat, twist, reach, pull, lift heavy objects, and climb stairs with reasonable or no accommodation.
• Must adhere to Central City Concern’s drug-free workplace policy and applicable requirements of the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988.
• Must pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check.
• Must adhere to the agency’s nondiscrimination policies and interact respectfully and with dignity with coworkers and clients from diverse ethnic, religious, cultural, lifestyle, and sexual-orientation backgrounds.
• Must comply with applicable privacy, confidentiality, and security requirements, including requirements related to protected health information and electronic medical-record access.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience with janitorial work and resident services.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a high-quality, comfortable, and safe living environment in buildings.
• Perform building upkeep, room inventories and turnovers, vacant-room preparation, and routine pest-control measures.
• Identify pests, including roaches, bed bugs, ants, and rodents, and perform follow-up cleaning after pest-control treatments, including vacuuming pests and disposing of bed-bug-infested property.
• Greet residents and building visitors, answer queries, and provide information and updates to staff.
• Clean and straighten lobbies, hallways, unoccupied offices, bathrooms, elevators, residential rooms, and interior and exterior common areas.
• Clean windows, floors, countertops, appliances, and fixtures; perform other cleaning, sweeping, mopping, dusting, vacuuming, washing, disinfecting, and polishing.
• Conduct periodic inspections of common areas and report hazardous conditions or emergency situations.
• Serve or distribute tenant notices, bulletins, and rent statements as assigned by Property Management or Supportive Housing staff.
• Help new residents become familiar with the community and available resources, and refer residents or clients to appropriate service staff as needed.
• Answer and direct telephone calls, take messages, deliver notices and other documents, and maintain files as time allows or as assigned.
• Maintain daily event and delivery logs, incident reports, building rosters, and other assigned reports and forms.
• Monitor surveillance cameras and overall property security; monitor and enforce building visiting policies.
• Collect random and required observed urinalyses as assigned by Property Management or Supportive Housing staff.
• Update the lobby with relevant health and social-services information.
• Remove ice and snow as required during inclement weather.
• Inventory, label, and store tenant property.
• Report to other sites as directed by the supervisor.
• Follow safety policies and procedures and comply with applicable state and federal privacy regulations, including HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2, and CCC confidentiality, privacy, and security policies and agreements.
• Immediately report any breach of protected health information or personal identification information to the CCC Compliance Department and the supervisor or designee.
• Gather, edit, and refine program boilerplate materials and impact data, and help keep files organized and updated.
• Follow CCC policies, procedures, and guidelines; attend required meetings and training; and perform related duties within the scope of the role.

Benefits

• Paid time off beginning at four weeks of accrual per year, with accrual rates increasing with longevity.
• Up to 11 recognized holidays and two personal holidays, depending on work shift schedule.
• 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer matching of 4.25% in the first year, 6% in the second year, and 8% in the third year.
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage.
• Employer-paid life insurance and short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Sabbatical program offering extended time off at years 7, 14, and 21.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed