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Assistant Director, Lucy’s Hearth

Company Name
Family Service of Rhode Island
Remote Position
No
Job Type
Full Time
Location
Providence, RI

POSITION TITLE: Assistant Director, Lucy’s Hearth 

PROGRAM: Lucy’s Hearth

 FULL TIME Full - Time 

SALARY RANGE: $67625.00 - $84083.00 Salary/year

Summary: Responsible for providing day-to-day management of the Lucy’s Hearth continuum of programs and expansion efforts as assistant to the Department Director, spanning emergency family shelter, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and community-based services. Facilitates on-site staff training, supervises staff, and oversees staff recruitment efforts and scheduling across all programs and services. Focuses on culturally attuned, trauma-informed best practice services aimed at homelessness prevention and mitigation for resident families.

Specific Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Provides oversight for overall shelter operations, ensuring uninterrupted, on-site 24/7/365 coverage of the facility.
  • Ensures service delivery for resident families is in accordance with all contracts, licenses and agency policies and procedures and that policies and procedures are kept up to date.
  • Assists the Department Director in identifying service gaps/program needs and planning, designing, implementing, and overseeing new and expansion programming.
  • Works closely with the Department Director to ensure service outcome targets are met.
  • Collaborates with the Human Resources Department to recruit and retain staff and address performance issues promptly.
  • Collaborates with the Quality Management Department and leadership to develop data collection methods, monitor progress in achieving goals and objectives, coordinate chart maintenance and archiving activities, triage/mediate incident reports, and implement programmatic course corrections.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in human or social services required or two years of comparable experience
  • Prior supervisory and/or program management experience required
  • Possession of a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and proof of current auto insurance required
  • Experience working within the Rhode Island housing system preferred
  • Must have excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
  • Must be agreeable to flexible scheduling to meet resident family needs
  • FSRI holds a management agreement with Lucy’s Hearth. As essential staff, the Assistant Director is required to report to work when scheduled, even if FSRI is otherwise closed, and to remain on site beyond the end of a shift until a replacement arrives, if needed
  • Outstanding communication skills (i.e., written, verbal, presentation) a must
  • Bilingual/ASL skills are compensated by an additional 6%, above base pay.
  • Multilingual skills are compensated by an additional 8%, above base pay.

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