*This opportunity will require a CYFD background check to be completed. This will cost $60, but S.A.F.E. House will reimburse you after you have completed at least 16 hours of volunteer work if you choose.
Please allow up to 3 business days for an email/and call to complete the volunteer application, confidentiality form, and CYFD background check.
We’re looking for compassionate volunteers to assist our Resident Advocates in the shelter office. S.A.F.E. House is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting survivors of domestic violence through shelter, advocacy, and empowerment. Our volunteers play a vital role in making this possible.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Shelter Helper / Resident Greeter Volunteers Duties
- Greets all residents in a kind, courteous, respectful manner
- Sign residents in and out/Open gates/Watch cameras/Provide and take room keys
- Taking residents to the laundry
- Taking the residents to open the door because they got locked out of their room
- Provide their key to get into the medication locker
- Provide leftover meals/milk
- Provide toilet paper, feminine products, and all other toiletries upon request
- Bag and restock snacks
- Anything staff could use help with upon request (restocking wipes, diapers, pads, cleaning/organizing office, folding linens, washcloths, etc.)
PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF THE WORK ENVIRONMENT:
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, the employee is required to:
· Have close and distant vision capability.
· Have the ability to read typescript.
· Speak and hear face-to-face.
· Speak and hear on a telephone.
· Frequently work in outside weather conditions.
· Operate an automobile.
· Frequently walk and/or climb stairs.
· Stand, walk, lift, sit, bend, reach, kneel, or crouch.
· Lift and/or move up to 50 lbs.
· Operate a computer.
· Use hands and fingers to handle and feel objects, tools, or controls.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud.
