The West Central Women’s Resource Centre (WCWRC) provides services and programming to women and families in the West Central neighborhood of Winnipeg. WCWRC is seeking to hire a HOMES Assistant Program Coordinator, assisting community women facing housing and economic security issues through a mentorship model.
This position is a one year maternity leave replacement.
| Start Date: | June 2016 |
| Salary: | $16-18/hour |
| Time Requirement: | 30 hours/week |
Responsibilities
Support Volunteers and Assist HOMES Program Coordinatinator
- Provide orientation and supervision to volunteer HOMES mentors, ensuring all relevant policy and procedures are being followed
- Assist HOMES mentors to navigate EIA and RTB with their participants, including helping, mentors prepare for hearings and appeals
- Provide support and direction in the HOMES office for participants experiencing crisis
- Provide coordination of HOMES Program intakes
- Assist the Housing Coordinator with monthly HOMES team meetings, mentor file reviews and mentor performance reviews
- Assist with other duties such as filing, data entry, organizing meetings/events and outreach.
1-1 Support
- Make appointments with women calling the centre for support housing and income support issues
- Meet with women to complete intake form and gather information about their situation
- Suggest and refer to other agencies that might help and make referrals i.e. food bank, Residential Tenancies Branch, furniture depot, counseling
- Ensure necessary follow up calls to arrange appointments, confirm appointments, etc
- Assist women to use resources considering difficulty with language, reading, time
- Work with supervisor to help women prepare for meetings, hearings etc
- Attend meetings and hearings with women to offer support companionship
- Participate in community meetings related to strategies improve the economic and social security, safety, and housing of women
- Crisis intervention
- Advocacy on behalf of participants as required
Reporting
- Enter data into information management system
- Track files for each year and mentor
- Maintain accurate records and statistics
- Record hours and maintain record of activities and files for program participants
Other
- Attend monthly HOMES network meetings
- Attend staff, mentor and program meetings
- Attend networking meetings in place of program coordinator when required
- In conjunction with other WCWRC staff, provide her WCWRC staff, provide on-going informal support, referral and direction to community women using the Centre
- Support drop-in and other programming as requested
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Completion of grade 12
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Familiar with the use of Microsoft office and outlook
- Experience in a supervisory role
- Professional and responsible with sensitive confidential issues
- Must be participant focused
- Strong advocacy skills
- Strong understanding of empowerment and harm reduction philosophies
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Self-motivated, able to work with minimal supervision
- Attention to detail
Preferred
- Experience working within the non-profit sector
- Demonstrated ability to work within an inclusion framework
- Ability to work from a multi-level approach
- Understanding of Community Economic Development Concepts
- Ability to adapt changing priorities
- Ability to multi-task
- Existing knowledge of the issues marginalization
- Experience working collaboratively with community organizations
Working Conditions
- Days
- Sitting long hours
Please submit resume and cover letter to the attention of the Personnel Committee, care of Lisa Spring
By e-mail: homes at wcwrc.ca
Mail: Attention Personnel Committee
c/o Lisa Spring
West Central Women’s Resource Centre
640 Ellice Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3G 0A7
The West Central Women’s Resource Centre is committed to representing diversity amongst our staff and mentors. Indigenous peoples, visible minorities, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities are encouraged to apply and self-identify. Thank you.
