Job Description

Title: Facilities Associate

Regular Full Title: 40 Hours/week Monday – Friday (8AM – 4:30PM)

Hourly: $25 – $28

Reports to: Facilities Supervisor

Start Date: ASAP

The Opportunity:

Are you ready to benefit from 100% employer-paid health coverage? Do you have experience as a handyman, skilled in handling minor home repairs such as fixing toilets, unclogging sinks, and performing paint touch-ups? If so, Homeward Bound would like to connect with you.

Homeward Bound of Marin is a dynamic and evolving non-profit agency committed to ending homelessness in Marin County through affordable housing development, supportive services, job training, and social enterprise. With a successful 49-year history and strong interdisciplinary partnerships with both private and public organizations, Homeward Bound is poised for significant growth over the next decade. Our work environment places a strong emphasis on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) principles, and we highly value resourcefulness, flexibility, kindness, compassion, and understanding.

Homeward Bound is currently in search of a Facilities Associate to perform semi-skilled duties aimed at supporting and maintaining our organization's residential, program, and administrative facilities.

If you have a heart and a passion for assisting families on their journey of personal growth, we encourage you to reach out to us. Your dedication can make a meaningful impact.

The Candidate:

We are looking for a mission-driven and hands-on Facilities Associates who works well as a team and independently. Our ideal candidate will be a self-starter who takes appropriate initiative and can work collaboratively with a diverse group and clients.

Education or Training Equivalent to:

• High school diploma

Special Qualifications & Qualities (skills, abilities, licenses):

• Ability to use hands with high level of manual dexterity for extended periods of time (3-4 hours)
• Work well with a team as well as independently.
• Ability to reach, climb, and balance on a regular basis.
• Ability to stoop, crouch, kneel and/or crawl on occasion
• Ability to lift and/or move objects, weighing up to 50 lbs.
• Able to keep strong boundaries and limits.
• Self-starter who takes appropriate initiative, has excellent time management and organizational skills, the ability to prioritize and organize, is creative and has a sense of humor
• Dynamic, resourceful, flexible, kind, compassionate, understanding
• Awareness of and comfort working in a culturally and ethnically diverse work environment
• Able to ask questions and receive constructive suggestions.
• Requires a valid California Driver License

Major Responsibilities:

• Clean and maintain cleanliness of lobbies, hallways, restrooms, elevators, stairways, and other common areas including washing, dusting and polishing said areas.
• Perform cleaning of residential units.
• Maintain common area floors including wash and wax hard surface flooring, vacuuming and/or cleaning carpets and rugs, cleaning tile grout, etc.
• Maintain common area walls, windows, doors, and lighting fixtures including cleaning , light painting and changing light bulbs.
• Responsible for maintaining the inventory of sanitary and cleaning supplies for assigned areas.
• Completes assigned minor and/or routine service requests.
• Empty all trash receptacles and transport collected trash to the assigned disposable area.
• Ability to travel to other properties in Marin as requested.
• Other maintenance tasks as directed

Relationships:

• Establishes and maintains open and supportive relationships with directors, managers, and all other agency staff members.
• Establishes and maintains respectful relationships with all residents, clients, and other organization constituents.
• Establishes and maintains communication with related vendors, consultants, and service providers.
• Maintains and models confidentiality related to agency services and client issues.
• Open to sharing and learning skills that'll be helpful to team and day to day maintenance operations.
• Respectful of residents personal belongings/ space .
• Demonstrate superb customer-service.

Written & Verbal Communication Skills:

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one situations to employees of the organization.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Homeward Bound is an equal opportunity employer. We stand for justice and equity. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training.

*$25--$28 per hour DOE with a competitive benefits package which includes 100% employer paid medical, vision and dental insurance, 2 weeks’ vacation, and access to a 403b retirement plan. Under California law, Homeward Bound is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role and should not offer a salary or hourly rate outside of the range posted in this job announcement. This range considers the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decision including but not limited to experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, analysis of internal equity, and other business and organizational needs. Salary and hourly rate offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience.

To Apply

Send resumes to: careers@hbofm.org