Division: Family Life Center

Department: Youth Learning Center (YLC)

Reports To: FLC Director/President

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Summary: The Youth Learning Center Youth Advocate supervises, instructs, guides, mentors, and tutors children ages 5 through 17, within a safe, nurturing, Christ-Centered and strength-based environment; with the goal of preparing youth to understand the concept of self-sufficiency in adulthood from a biblical perspective.

They will also work closely with the Biblical Case Managers (BCM) and the parents in achieving these goals.   

Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Ensures youth safety.
• Using guidance and role-modeling provides mentoring and clear instruction, to promote youth self-regulation and social competency.
• Applies Biblical instruction and counseling whenever possible.
• Provides academic tutoring.
• Notes and records youth activity.
• When appropriate and under supervision directed by the FLC Director, reports behavior issues to the parents and the BCM’s.
• Identifies, develops or applies organized activity schedule and related curriculum provided by the FLC Director.
• Partners with other Youth Advocates, when instructed and where appropriate, to engage and supervise youth.
• Cleans the YLC area to Mission standards.
• Distributes snacks/meals.
• Ensures that a child’s/youth’s negative behavioral issues are immediately addressed (as dictated by policy) with appropriate follow up documentation forwarded to appropriate parties.
• Ensures a child’s/youth’s positive behavioral issues are immediately addressed, with appropriate follow up documentation forwarded to the appropriate parties.
• Works with volunteers under the direction of the FLC Director and Volunteer Department.
• Strong emphasis in mentoring/tutoring children with homework assignments.
• Love on each and every child/youth they come in contact with each day.
• Other duties as directed.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• High School Diploma or equivalency. (Associate Degree in social service related field preferred).
• Must have attended, or be willing to attend upon hire, and receive certification from the 4C, Dept. of Children and Families.
• Ability to read and apply OURM information such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions.
• Ability to identify youth strengths and to focus on those strengths within interaction boundaries.
• Ability to write resident notes, and correspond through e-mail and written notes to the FLC Director, Case Management and/or OURM Leadership.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups such as residents, volunteers, co-workers, donors, and external organizations.
• Understanding of biblical instruction and the ability to apply it.
• Ability to identify and organize age appropriate youth activities.
• Ability to forecast and prevent potential problems within the youth.
• Ability to mediate problems and offer solutions to address youth problems.
• Ability to team with co-workers.
• Ability to understand and apply supervisory instruction and guidance.
• Awareness, understanding and practice of cultural diversity.
• Understanding of youth and adolescent development.
• Ability to learn to speak effectively with and coach parents about biblically- based parenting.
• Willingness to learn and grow within the boundaries of the job description.
• Ability to follow HIPPA rules and regulations.
• Ability to operate machinery and various athletic equipment per manufacturer’s specifications.
• Must adhere to OURM Policies/Procedures and Doctrinal Statement as outlined.
• Physical Demands:

  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and see (close, distant and acute peripheral vision), taste, smell, talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, grasp, climb, run, and balance in an indoor-outdoor, noisy environment. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

• Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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Division: Bargain Store

Reports To: Store Director

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Summary: Accepts all private and gift-in-kind donations. Keeps warehouse, freezer and cooler neat and orderly. Also, receives donations, processes received goods and bales clothes and cardboard by performing the following duties.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Accept donations, assist donors and issue donor receipts.
• Bale cardboard for selling to recycler.
• Bale clothing and assist in the sale thereof.
• Process received goods.
• Collect and sort scrap metal to be sold.
• Assist in handling emergency truck repairs.
• Document disposed goods.
• Operate forklift and baler.
• Load and unload furniture deliveries on truck as needed.
• Maintain entire back lot.
• Drive truck as needed.
• Assist in handling disorderly customers as necessary.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by Store Director.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Ability:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.

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.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands, reach with hands and arms, climb and balance, communicate effectively. The employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 200 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather), outdoor weather conditions, extreme cold (non-weather), and extreme heat (non-weather).

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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