RAP Housing Assessor
RAP Housing Assessor
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30-04-2025
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30-04-2025
Job Description
Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish
YWCA SKS is the regions largest nonprofit organization with a 120 year legacy focused on the needs of women with programs serving 7000 people each year. When you work with YWCA you make a difference.
Were women and BIPOCled familycentered and supportive of employees. As a fulltime YWCA employee 30 hours) youll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance generous vacation holiday sick leave plans and an outstanding retirement your passion for racial equity and social justice to work apply today!
What Youll Do
The King County Regional Access Point (RAP) Housing Assessor is responsible for completing Coordinated Entry for All (CEA) intake and housing assessments with youth single adults and families experiencing homelessness. The Housing Assessor will be focused on the South King County area but will also engage in mobile assessments throughout the larger King County region.
This position has a social justice component that will require critical thinking about how external systems impact the work that we are doing through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Knowing the core principles of antiracism and grounding those principles in everyday work as well as working well in nonwhite environments and championing antiracism policy are required job skills and core values. As an equalopportunity employer we highly encourage people of color to apply.
Responsibilities
- Apply a lens of intersectional equity and racial justice at the systems level and the daytoday work including but not limited to the of assigned responsibilities and duties
- Operate as initial contact for Coordinated Entry for All (CEA) regional access point and communicate eligibility criteria for housing placement through CEA
- Schedule and conduct housing assessments with clients entering the CEA system inperson or over the phone utilizing other required tools of the assessment
- As needed and/or in coordination with the King County RAP Housing Navigator engage in creative solutionmaking and diversion strategies that could reinstate housing stability without utilizing the CEA system for clients experiencing homelessness
- Communicate with clients about the next steps and engage in resource referrals as appropriate after completing a housing assessment
- Practice culturally appropriate clientdriven assetsbased and traumainformed strategies in assessment engagement and advocacy efforts
- Participate and engage in case conferences meetings and/or consultations as requested
- Assist program staff in keeping reference and referral materials current
- Complete reports and assist with administrative tasks as needed
- Implement all work by incorporating the YWCAs Social Justice Initiative by understanding how racism sexism classism and other oppressions intersect and are embedded in all institutions and systems. Recognize that solving racism is the root of how we understand and heal from these isms.
- Show demonstrated ability to interact with people of different cultures.
- Continue search for understanding of racial gender and class equity.
- Adhere to all Volunteer Services protocol relative to volunteer usage recognition and monitoring. Work alongside volunteers where applicable. Understand where internalized oppressions (superiority and inferiority) play a role in volunteer and client interaction and know ways to address these oppressions from a solutionsbased perspective.
- Assure that volunteers are treated with respect and dignity regardless of race ethnic background gender or socioeconomic background. Understand how racism has played a role in defining what respect and dignity is and use racial equity and multiracial perspectives when teaming with volunteers.
Minimum Qualifications
- Two years of clerical experience or service delivery in the social service field including one year of experience working with lowincome homeless and diverse populations
- Associates Degree with at least one year of direct social service experience in working with lowincome homeless and diverse populations
- Commitment to intersectional equity and racial and social justice
- Commitment to working with homeless individuals/families and providing specialized advocacy for individuals/families of color
- Demonstrated ability to effectively engage and support people of different cultures and backgrounds with respect and dignity
- Engaged in a continued search for understanding of equity and access across the lines of race gender identity sexual orientation class and other facets of identity
- Experience working with communities of color
- Demonstrated understanding of the intersection of racism and poverty
- Knowledge about social services and resources related to housing employment education and health
- Good oral and written communication skills organizational and recordkeeping skills
- Ability and willingness to work independently and as part of a team to make sound judgments without direct supervision
- High level of computer proficiency with MS Office
- High level of proficiency with multipleline phone systems cellular phones and video calling
- Demonstrated ability to perform at a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to multitask and work effectively under timelines and deadlines
- Access to a vehicle with a valid permit and insurance
- Core competencies expected: Achievement; Collaboration; Communication; Customer Service; Discernment/Judgment; Fostering Diversity; Initiative; Innovation; Interpersonal skills; Planning & Organizing; Problem Solving; Race & Social Justice Advocacy
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Physical Demands
- Continuously exchanges information through listening and talking with clients agency staff employers representatives of community organizations and other individuals in the community
- Frequently stands walks sits and climbs in performing duties in the office and in traveling to offsite meetings
- Frequently reaches and grasps in using telephones computers fax machines and other office equipment and supplies
- Frequently lifts and carries up to 5 lbs. of paperwork files and training materials occasionally up to 40 lbs.
- Frequently to occasionally performs close work while updating files reading program information and using computer
- Occasionally kneels bends pushes and pulls in obtaining files in drawers
*Continuously Over 80 of the time * Frequently 2080 * Occasionally Under 20
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YWCA encourages applicants with a variety of experiences to apply!
At YWCA we recognize that lived expertise is a powerful asset. This refers to the insights knowledge and skills developed by those who have navigated systems and experienced inequity.
Valuing lived expertise helps build trust with program participants develop culturally responsive programs and break down barriers to equity. It enriches our collective understanding and enhances our ability to serve communities that are furthest from opportunity.
Mental Health Considerations
All employees of the YWCA interact with clients who have experienced or are experiencing trauma in various forms including but not limited to racial trauma domestic violence sexual violence homelessness unemployment and financial hardship. As a result employees are at risk of secondary encourage employees to seek support inside and outside the workplace and maintain selfcare routines.
Equal Opportunity Employment
YWCA Seattle King Snohomishis an Equal Opportunity read more about this view theEEO is the LawPoster and thisEEO is the Law Poster Supplement.
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