Job Description
The House Mother is responsible for all aspects of day-to-day operations of the home. This is a live-in position.
Essential Qualifications:
The House Mother should have at least the following education, experience, and skills:
- A Bachelor's degree.
- The ability to recognize signs of illness and safety/injury hazards and respond with prevention interventions.
- Ability to implement policies and procedures.
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
- Maturity and sensitivity to cultural and individual differences.
- Ability to maintain professional demeanor while exercising judgment and discretion in work.
- Ability to write reports and correspondence.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Commitment to the mission, values, and goals of Heather's House and Aid for Women, which includes a commitment to pro-life and sexual integrity values.
Essential Functions:
- Promote overall mission, value and goals of the organization.
- Ensure residents and staff members follow best practices for safety.
- Provide a social and moral example to residents while demonstrating Christian values.
- Responsible for providing a nurturing and caring home-like atmosphere.
- Maintain vehicles (if, appropriate).
- Maintain petty cash log and receipts.
- Maintain program statistics.
- Maintain office equipment.
- Coordinate purchase of groceries.
- Coordinate celebration of Mass, and maintain the chapel.
- Coordinate gift-in-kind donations.
- Maintain the baby boutique.
- Train, supervise and evaluate Vitae Corps volunteers.
- Promote the overall well-being of those who live in the home.
- Train and supervise visitors and administrative volunteers and maintain volunteer log.
- Oversee household, ensuring that it is clean, tidy and in working order.
- Ensure that the inside and outside of the building are properly maintained for safety.
- Participate in all meetings essential to position including house and staff meetings.
- Flexibility to attend daytime trainings or meetings outside of regularly scheduled hours.
- Supervise all program communication/documentation, i.e., log entries, incident reports, phone and written communication to residential coordinators, and to external bodies, as appropriate.
- Must have valid driver's license and be able to lift 40 pounds.
Job Tags
Full time, Live in, Work at office,