Women’s Community Life Coordinator

Portland Rescue Mission • Portland, OR

124d • $19 - $22

About The Position

Portland Rescue Mission is seeking a Women's Community Life Coordinator. This gifted servant will personify community building, order, and responsibility as they join a Christ-centered team with an award-winning culture and a commitment to serving others in their recovery from addiction, homelessness and other life traumas. Are you ready to transform and be transformed as you support women recovering from homelessness and addiction towards healthy relationships with God and others leading towards long-term success? If so, we invite you to thoughtfully consider this unique opportunity.

Requirements

• A personal relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior and a testimony of continued growth in faith.
• A personal ethos and work ethic that reflects Portland Rescue Mission’s ministry culture – Highly Relational, Christ-Centered, Joyful Servant.
• General awareness and knowledge of chemical dependency, addiction recovery and discipleship.
• Discipleship oriented with effortless ability to share personal testimonies of God’s love.
• Proficient in case-note documentation, organization, scheduling, and activity planning.
• Ability to support adults across a wide age range who are recovering from a broad spectrum of co-occurring problems, including those related to trauma, substance use disorders, chronic pain, medical problems, social determinants of health, and eating disorders.
• Ability to gracefully maintain boundaries and hold others accountable to community guidelines.
• Ability to lift at least 50 lbs. unassisted.

Responsibilities

• Provide Shepherd's Door (SD) participants with a consistent programmatic care and experience in the evenings and weekends by maintaining program purposes, guidelines, and tone resulting in continued growth of all participants.
• Support program participant’s growth in spiritual formation, relationships and addictions recovery through one-on-one conversations, compassionate care, consistent invitations to participate and use of applicable growth tools for accountability as needed.
• Create a highly relational, Christ-centered and structured environment for SD program participants through robust activity opportunities, including ones that are volunteer-based such as Evening Meal Hosting or Bible Studies.
• Partner with participants as they provide care and structure for their children.
• Clearly share the Gospel in individual and group settings as women seek spiritual healing and discipleship.
• Maintain program and facility operations to PRM standards through supporting a variety of activities such as administering observed Urinary Analysis (UA’s), medicine call, facility lock up and walk-through as needed, evening meal, vocational duties, visitations, and attendance accountability.
• Inform daytime program staff of evening participant behaviors through Evening Shift Report, database notes, effective communication, and follow up around significant events.
• Support the program by being in contact with Millenium Health regarding orders; maintaining and updating UA (urinary analysis) and checking UA results.

Benefits

• Medical
• Vision
• Dental
• PTO
• 10 paid holidays
• Matching retirement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level