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Manager of HIV Housing and Services for Homeless Young Adults,
Larkin Street Youth Services
City: San Francisco
State: CA
Company Name: Larkin Street Youth Services
Organizational Description:
Since 1984, Larkin Street Youth Services has been committed to helping San Francisco’s most vulnerable youth ages 12-24 move beyond street life. This commitment has fueled the development of a comprehensive continuum of services that is nationally recognized as a model of innovative and effective care. We offer stability, safety, and the opportunity for a better life.
Larkin Street’s continuum provides a range of housing options—from immediate emergency shelter to permanent supportive housing—in addition to essential wraparound services that offer kids the resources and skills they need to exit street life. Supportive services include education, technology and employment training; healthcare, including mental health, substance abuse, and HIV services; and case management.
Our success rate in helping kids get off the street for good testifies to a simple truth: Given safety, shelter, compassion, guidance, and enough positive options, kids can find their own solutions. We believe all youth deserve the chance to reach their full potential and contribute their best to the world.
Job Title: Manager of HIV Housing and Services for Homeless Young Adults
Primary Responsibilities:
Assisted Care is a 12 bed RCF-CI (licensed) facility for youth (18-24) living with HIV/AIDS. After Care provides housing subsidies, case management, and support services to youth (18-24) housed in the community who are living with HIV/AIDS. The program offers comprehensive psycho-social, educational, vocational, and employment opportunities to the participants served to ensure their successful transition into greater independence and self sufficiency. There is an emphasis on serving young adults with behavioral health and substance abuse needs.
The primary role of the AC/AC Manager is the management of the day-to-day operations of the program within the mission and goals of Larkin Street Youth Services. This includes all related activities such as supervision of all staff, volunteers and interns; staff training and evaluation, development and implementation of program services; grants management and management of the program budget. This position provides overall clinical and programmatic supervision to the program team. This position is also responsible for participating in agency middle management protocols.
Desired Characteristics:
- Extreme passion for our agency’s mission in maintaining a positive, upbeat attitude
- Exceptional organizational skills with reliability and consistency in work performance
- Flexibility with a team player mentality
- Ability to work with minimal to moderate supervision
- An extreme focus on good judgment with a proactive approach to problem-solving
- Ability to maintain a professional demeanor with great interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to multi-task with the capability to learn quickly and integrate efficiently
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide overall program leadership.
- Staff hiring, supervision, including weekly staff meetings, and training.
- Program evaluation and development.
- Provide monthly statistics and complete all grant reports.
- Supervise record keeping.
- Coordinate program coverage and scheduling.
- Supervise volunteers and interns.
- Oversee maintenance of facility.
- Evaluate and monitor groups and case management plans.
- Serve on agency’s middle management team.
- Manage programs crises through being part of the on call rotation.
- Represent agency as liaison to community.
- Other duties as assigned by the Director of Health Services.
Professional Performance:
- Maintain professional standards of performance, demeanor and appearance at all times.
- Perform tasks and responsibilities in a complete and timely manner, complying with agency policies and standards and conforming to the requirements of this job description.
- Maintain a creative, team-building, cooperative approach to job performance and seek to bring a constructive, problem-solving orientation to all tasks.
- Maintain an awareness of the agency’s mission and work to promote the positive individual and social change goals it embodies.
- Exercise discretion and professional judgment at all times keeping with the responsibilities carried personally and by the agency for the care and welfare of staff and to the youth in which we serve.
- Actively strive to upgrade professional skills through engaging in appropriate professional training and experience.
- Maintaining the strictest of confidentiality.
- Ability to work with a diverse staff and excel in a multi-cultural environment.
Additional Qualifications:
- BA Degree with MA or MSW strongly preferred.
- Minimum two years of supervisory experience preferred.
- Minimum 2 years experience working in field of HIV/AIDS.
- Must also have ability to work with high-risk youth and with diverse staff, clients, and volunteers.
- Minimum of two years experience working with youth and/or adults with behavioral health needs required.
Respond to: ltannenbaum@larkinstreetyouth.org
