POSITION SUMMARY:

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

World Relief seeks a creative individual with technical know-how to develop and implement a national host home program that supports and increases safe short-term housing opportunities for displaced immigrant populations. This role provides training, resources, support, and coaching to WR offices managing or implementing a host home program and to the churches and volunteers that are temporarily hosting.

Compensation: $ 50,000 - $55,000 DOE

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Program

• Oversee the development and implementation of the host home program, which includes the matching of displaced populations in need of temporary housing with vetted host home volunteers in coordination with local WR sites and affiliates
• Manage host home training and documentation, including impact metrics, keeping up to date with organizational policies and onboarding documents
• Create and implement program evaluation tools to measure volunteer and participant experience
• Understand, track, and manage Ambassador activities and OKRs
• As requested, represent WR at internal and external conferences, meetings, committees and working groups with WR colleagues, national Resettlement Agencies, federal partners and other stakeholders

Field Office Support

• Directly support local host home programs, providing them with ongoing training, resources, and development opportunities
• Work closely with the Volunteer Coordinators to train, support, and supervise host home volunteers, matching them with refugees, asylee, or other immigrant participants as temporary guests
• Perform virtual home assessments and visits in support of local offices.
• Make virtual host and guest introductions when needed and follow up regularly with WR staff and hosts to ensure ongoing relationships of mutuality and trust
• Communicate with field offices, referring them to internal or external resources and services, as appropriate
• Collaborate with other WR offices to stay up to date on host home best practices, training, and story collection by convening host home coordinators on a quarterly basis across the network
• Collaborate with Initial Resettlement team around best practices and procedures for temporary housing
• Design and facilitate host home engagement opportunities for churches
• Develop and launch an ambassador training curriculum in collaboration with The Workshop team
• Provide training sessions to hosts, staff, and populations paired with hosts, to assist with cultural sensitivity, removing stability barriers, problem-solving, networking and advocacy.
• Participate in special projects, as needed

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Familiar with refugee resettlement ideas and terminology preferred
• History of involvement with volunteerism or non-profit work experience
• Fluent in Microsoft Office 365 software
• Strong verbal and written skills
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task and organize in a fast paced and fluid environment
• Experience working for World Relief and familiarity with World Relief interfaces preferred
• Experience with cross-cultural training preferred
• Cross-cultural experience preferred
• Able to do up to 15% domestic travel
• Ability to manage timelines independently and effectively, and manage multiple projects

REQUIREMENTS:

• Mature and personal Christian faith
• Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
• Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
• Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
• Able to work in agile, cross-departmental teams
• Strong verbal and written skills
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task and organize in a fast paced and fluid environment

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

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.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations
• The ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-15 pounds
• Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application information
• The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• General office setting
• Great lengths of time working on computer, reading from computer screen, entering information, standing at copier or fax machine, and some time on the phone or in skype meetings may be required
• Year-end archiving activities involve repeated lifting and bending
• Physical, emotional and intellectual demands
• Equipment used: Employee computer (desktop or laptop), printer, and copier
• All of the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodation. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Individuals may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. This position description is not all-inclusive and is always under review.

World Relief offers a competitive benefits package (25 hours + per week):

World Relief contributes to monthly premiums:

• Medical
• Dental

Additional Benefits:

• Offer 16 Paid Holidays!
• Vision
• Offer Paid Sick and Vacation Leave
• Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Parental Leave
• FSAs: Medical & Dependent Care, & Commuter Funding
• Supplemental Life Insurance (employee, spouse, and children)
• Flexible work schedule, remote work

World Relief pays 100% for eligible employees:

• Group Term Life (employee, spouse, and children)
• Long Term & Short-term Disability
• Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
• Long Distant Travel Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

World Relief - Retirement:

• 401K & Roth
• WR matches up to 4%, then an additional quarter percent up to 10%
• Eligibility: Full Time is eligible after 3 months of employment. Part time is eligible after 1000 hours in a year

World Relief Discounts (Immediately Eligible):

• Verizon
• Pet Insurance through Nationwide
• Home and Auto insurance through Liberty Mutual

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Legal Background in the United States

World Relief is both an equal opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization. This means that we conduct hiring without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, sex, marital status, parental status, membership in any labor organization, political ideology, or disability of an otherwise qualified individual. The status of World Relief as an equal opportunity employer does not prevent the organization from hiring staff based on their religious beliefs, so that all staff share the same religious commitment.

Pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 702 (42 U.S.C. 2000e 1(a) World Relief has the right to, and does, hire only candidates who agree with World Relief’s Statement of Faith.