YWCA Seattle King Snohomish

YWCA Seattle King Snohomish

Client Support Specialist

Seattle, WA · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$20k-$80kDetected 112 days ago
Customer SupportCommunicationMicrosoft Office

About the role

  • Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish?
  • YWCA SKS is the region's largest non-profit organization with a 120+ year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year.
  • We're women and BIPOC-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees.

Responsibilities

  • The Resident Support Specialist at YWCA are officially titled Resident, Guest, and Client Support Specialists due to the breadth of people they serve.
  • The RGC Support Specialist supports a lobby area that has resident activity, staff and community visitors' strong communication and safety awareness are essential.
  • Staff must maintain a lobby that is free of unnecessary distractions, welcoming, and security focused.
  • Resident activity can be heavy until midnight or 1am so keeping the building secure and monitoring lobby activity is important.
  • Maintain knowledge of YWCA resident resources, services, and staff and can make appropriate inter-agency referrals.
  • Maintains calm, caring and professional demeanor at all times, especially during stressful situations.
  • Communicates effectively and appropriately in a diverse environment: Maintains confidentiality, discretion and professionalism and maintains proper client/staff relationship boundaries.
  • Monitors activity in the lobby area and on cameras throughout the building and enforces policies regarding building and resident safety.

Requirements

  • Experience working as a security guard
  • 3 years in a customer service facing role.
  • Demonstrated experience with event logs and/or case notes.
  • Basic computer literacy with ability to use Outlook, Microsoft Word, and SharePoint.

Nice to have

  • Ability to work with the public, residents, and people in crisis
  • minimum 1 year of experience working in a social service setting preferred.

Skills

  • This refers to the insights, knowledge, and skills developed by those who have navigated systems and experienced inequity.

Compensation

  • Completed De-Escalation Training on an annual basis.

Benefits

  • As a full-time YWCA employee (30+ hours), you'll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan.
  • Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work - apply today!

Company info

  • RGC Support Specialists are responsible for providing high quality, culturally responsive, and consistent in-person and by-phone customer service to all residents, clients, guests, staff, volunteers, donors, and community members in a diverse and busy environment.
  • When you work with YWCA, you make a difference.

Equal opportunity

  • Employment YWCA Seattle King Snohomish is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • To read more about this, view the EEO is the Law Poster and this EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.
  • For more information Contact us at careers@ywcaworks.org with any questions or if you need accommodation for your application.

This listing is sourced directly from YWCA Seattle King Snohomish's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.