Africatown Community Land Trust (ACLT) seeks a highly organized and flexible cleaning professional that takes pride in positively contributing to the maintenance and upkeep of a safe and healthy work and living environment. The successful candidate will take pride in their work and have experience in best cleaning safety practices for disinfecting sanitizing and operating heavy duty janitorial equipment for highvolume traffic areas access by the community members community guests (residents) and employees. This is a fulltime position reporting to the facilities and maintenance manager. This position works primarily at the Benu Community Home and may need to travel to other offsite facilities.

ABOUT US

Africatown Community Land Trust is working for community ownership of land in the Central District. This can support the cultural and economic thriving of people who are part of the African diaspora in the Greater Seattle area. The Africatown Community Land Trust board is comprised of real estate professionals business executives entrepreneurs business professionals and longtime community members from the Central District.

MISSION

To acquire develop and steward land in Greater Seattle to empower & preserve the

Black Community.

VISION

Vibrant and thriving black communities through land ownership.

VALUES

• Ownership

Promoting Increasing and protecting/supporting individual and collective ownership of land and businesses

• Opportunity

• Community Collaborative Partnerships

Build community collaborate and partner with others around shared values to maximize and accelerate impact.

• Cultural Heritage Preservation

Acknowledge honor promote and celebrate the Black legacy in Seattle.

• Innovation

Takes initiative to identify creative solutions towards continuous improvement of existing processes and brings new ways of approaching the work culturally.

• Globally Connected Intergenerational Wealth Creation

ACLTs work is locally rooted but globally connected to create mutual enrichment benefits.

• Racial Equity & Social Justice

Leading with and centering the needs of the Black community in asset ownership equitable distribution of wealth opportunities and access historically denied by systems of oppression.

ABOUT THE POSITIONS ACLTS Benu Community Home is open seven days a week including evenings and weekends. The Benu Community Home provides transitional housing to Black Men that may suffer from mental illness substance disorder cooccurring disorders or other trauma related issues. The custodian role is important to help us provide a safe and clean environment for community guests. This position will collaborate with the Facilities and Maintenance Manager and Operations Manager to ensure the facility is clean and sanitize daily and ensure building areas are properly maintained. This position may be exposed to biohazardous materials such as blood feces vomit urine etc. The position performs a variety of light and heavy cleaning activities including scrubbing stripping waxing and buffing floors cleaning and resupplying restrooms vacuuming and shampooing rugs and carpets dusting and polishing furniture and cleaning glass surfaces. Incumbents collect and remove trash from the building. Other responsibilities include maintaining and sanitizing cleaning equipment and laundering cleaning towels. The position is responsible for securing fire doors. Custodians may move furniture set up meeting rooms and perform other duties as assigned. Most custodians routinely work on night shift.

Typical Duties

Contribute to the efficient provision of extra cleaning services by completing routine cleaning tasks on schedule troubleshooting and reporting problems when needed and performing extra duties as assigned.

General Cleaning

• Empty waste and recycle (replace can liners as needed or per safety guidelines)
• Managing cleaning supply inventory and request replaces to avoid shortages
• Police the outside the facility to remove trash
• Provide assistance with meeting room setup
• Clean and wipe reception area elevator foyer stairwells kitchen and food prep area vacant guests rooms offices and conference rooms etc.

• General dusting and spot cleaning of doors windows floors and carpeted areas
• Clean exterior of microwaves in the kitchen and guest area
• Other duties as assigned

Restroom Cleaning and Sanitation

• Restock all paper products (toilet tissue paper towels seat covers)
• Empty waste receptacles
• Clean sanitize and disinfect sinks toilets and mirror
• Dustmop and wet mop floors
• Monthly topcoat scrub floors

Kitchen

• Clean sanitize and disinfect hard surfaces sinks and appliance exterior (stove microwave refrigerator etc.
• Dustmop and wet mop hard floor surfaces
• Monthly top scrub hard floor surfaces

• Replace paper products soap dispenser and sanitizer

Floor Care Services

• Daily dust mopping and wet mopping all hard floor surfaces
• Vacuum all high traffic areas daily

• Vacuum all offices and onhigh traffic areas three times per week

Dusting and Sanitizing

• Dust high surface areas monthly
• Dust clean and sanitize counters and low surface areas daily

Project Cleaning and Tasks

• Deep clean carpets annually
• Stripping waxing and sealing hard floor surfaces biannually
• Windows interior and first floor interior monthly or as needed

• Assist with pest control
• Perform other related tasks as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum:

• 3 years of janitorial or cleaning experience in an office environment or public facility
• High school diploma GED or equivalent technical experience
• Positive attitude and customer service experience

• Basic computer skills to read write or respond to emails
• Excellent follow through and organization skills for cleaning requests
• Ability to work effective with a team or independently to accomplish tasks
• Knowledge of hazardous cleaning chemicals and how to use properly
• Knowledge of cleaning and disposal of biohazardous waste materials and bloodborne pathogens

• Knowledge of OSHA cleaning guidelines including COVID cleaning standards
• Physical ability to perform the job: long periods of standing walking stooping and lifting up to 50lbs using proper lifting techniques as needed.

Desired:

• Three years or more commercial janitorial experience (office or public facility)
• COVID Officer certification

TO BE CONSIDERED

• Complete an ACLT job application on the company website.
• Resume that details your professional experience related to the position.