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House Shepherd: Evening and Weekend

REPORTS TO: Director of Next Story

JOB STATUS: Exempt

RATE OF PAY: $ 500.00 per month plus rent free efficiency apartment

The House Shepherd will maintain a physical presence for men living at Next Story transitional home until they transition into stable employment and housing. The Shepherd will maintain residence in one of the designated House Shepherd rooms and spend each night there, including weekend nights, unless alternate coverage is arranged and approved by the Director of Next Story. The Shepherd will provide general oversite of the evening and weekend operations designed to support clients as they begin working and participating in intervention activities provided through HopeWorks programming.

Reporting to the Director of Next Story, the House Shepherd will provide timely information and updates of each resident to the Director on a regular basis. The House Shepherd will be part of the Intervention team, assuring that clients at Next Story are following the programming schedule as outlined for the individual client and client group as a whole. 

The House Shepherd should model HopeWorks values and ethics central to the HopeWorks mission of “Hope in Christ”.  To be effective in this position, one must be caring, empathetic, conscientious, confidential, culturally-sensitive, and client-centered.  This individual should adhere to professional standards as outlined by rules and regulations governing their profession.

HopeWorks is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly oppose discrimination in the workplace.  HopeWorks is built upon teamwork and equal opportunity. We are committed to developing and implementing a program of nondiscrimination.  We will subscribe to the principles of an equal opportunity employer and will recruit, interview, hire, classify, train, promote, demote, discipline, transfer, terminate, and set rates of pay or other compensation on the basis of merit and qualification without regard to race, creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, disabled or veteran status, or physical or mental disability.