House Director (Full-Time)

THE ROLE

The House Director will partner with the Assistant House Director and AmeriCorps Program Coordinator/House-Sister to co-lead the HomeWorks house and cultivate a culture around our values of intentionality, empathy and community.

House

• Ensure and meet the needs of scholars’ emotional and mental well-being. The House Director takes initiative in engaging in healthy conversations with the scholars and maintaining open communication.

• Must live in the home from Sunday evenings until Friday mornings. This includes being on-call throughout the night. See breakdown of working hours below.

• Enforce all policies and protocol and use restorative justice practices.

• Keeping a record of scholars’ medical requirements and dosages, monitoring scholars' hygiene, and accounting for each scholar at lights out (bedtime).

• Complete incident reports and daily log as needed.

• Manage all household expenses, including coordinating buying house and program supplies, and updating the house expense tracker.

• Run Weekly House Meetings and scholar and peer leader check-ins.

• Plan and co-lead programming, field trips, study hall, and House Team Days with fun activities.

• Build structure and guide scholars to start and lead their own club activities.

• Co-lead study hall and ensure all scholar grades are up-to-date and contact parents or teachers about any concerns.

• Assist as bus aide a few times a week.

• Coordinate with Stouts on weekly transportation needs.

• Alert schools of any transportation delays.

• Work with the COO to build towards the future of HomeWorks. This can look like developing and implementing program strategy, which includes projects such as the climate and culture and alumni engagement.

Parent Engagement

• Lead and handle all parent communication and relationships.

• Create the agenda and lead monthly parent meetings/community potlucks.

Recruitment

• Co-Lead on Scholar Recruitment, which includes reading applications, pitching to partner schools, interviewing and calling prospective scholars and parents, deliberation etc.

Organization, Team and Communication

• Work alongside the COO to co-lead and manage the house team and volunteers. This includes communicating with and providing feedback to staff and program volunteers. This also includes overseeing, coordinating and delegating certain activities and responsibilities, such as planning and leading activities and other house admin-related tasks.

• Have a strong working relationship with the House Team, Mental Health Counselor and Admin Team.

• Keep up-to-date on house emails.

• Coordinate any substitutions needed at the house with the scholars.

• Remain adaptable and assist in other projects that may arise. Uphold HomeWorks values for incidents and situations that arise.

• Follow local and federal laws (i.e. drug & alcohol use, mandated reporting).

The House Director’s goal is to co-create a culture around HomeWorks values and build a healthy and safe learning and living environment for our scholars. The House Director will do this through working closely with the House and Admin team, as well as building relationships with scholars and parents. We will use tools like Asana, Google Workspace, Salesforce and Slack to amplify the work.

We hope the person in this role will have a passion for justice, education and community building, and is excited about the opportunity to lead the house, develop house culture that will ultimately equip Black and Brown girls in Trenton, NJ to be academically successful and become community leaders.

THE TANGIBLE GOODS

• Typical Working Hours: Sunday: 4:30pm-10pm; Monday to Friday: 6:15am-6:45am/8am (occasionally until 8am if on bus route); Monday to Thursday: 1:30pm -10pm. You are staying overnight in the dorm from Sunday evenings until Friday mornings. Please Note: Working hours may be scheduled to change, and may vary if an emergency or unexpected situation occurs.

• Monthly Friday Meetings: 3:30 pm-5:00pm

• Salary Range: In your first year, expect a compensation package of $83,044-$93,044, with a salary between $60,000-$70,000, fully furnished housing valued at $22,000/year during the school year and daily dinners valued at $1,044/year when the program is in session.

• Benefits: Insurance HRA stipend of $150/month for any medical expense; Paid Time Off (during the school year since follow the Trenton Public School System holiday schedule - approximately 24 days AND during the summer - 10 days); Smartphone and fully paid wireless plan through Mint Mobile; Work laptop; Professional development and leadership growth opportunities; A rewarding career that positively impacts our amazing scholars.

• Start Date: ASAP

THE CULTURE

Every organization has its particular brand of crazy. We just try to be up-front about ours:

• Our team is driven and determined, as we feel this is what is best for our scholars and our mission, and we do it because we care so much. We work efficiently, are ruthless in getting things done, and will even roll up our sleeves and get down to sweep the floors. We are passionate and detail-oriented Type A folks.

• We are obsessive about documenting everything so that we can replicate and scale what we are doing to expand our impact. Everything– from lesson plans to field trip procedures– will be added to manuals, put in the shared drive, documented on Asana and more.

• We believe that our biggest strength comes from having a team with a rainbow of personalities, working styles, backgrounds, experiences, and cultures. We respect and value everyone's voices, and challenge each other to grow as professionals, individuals, and as an entire organization.

• We are intentional in living our values of intentionality, empathy and community in all we do. We all show up fully in the work. Every day.