Qualifications
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Behavioral Sciences, other related fields; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- One year or more of case management experience.
- Completion of, or ability to complete the California state mandated 40-hour Domestic Violence Assistance training.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to provide services that are trauma-informed, client-centered, and culturally responsive.
- Knowledge of how individuals from the AAPI community are affected by gender-based violence, specifically domestic violence, and intimate partner violence, differently from those in the mainstream.
- Knowledge regarding crisis management in a confidential emergency shelter setting.
- Commitment to program’s anti-violence mission and able to adhere to confidentiality requirements around client information.
- Sensitive and able to work with diverse communities in terms of race, ethnicity, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, etc.
- Ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks.
- Ability to work in a flexible environment including some evenings, weekends, and holidays.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to maintain a valid California driver license, current personal auto insurance, and an MVR sufficient to maintain insurability under agency auto liability.
- Ability to communicate well with people of diverse cultural, professional, and experiential backgrounds.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to communicate in one of the threshold languages other than English (i.e., Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Tagalog) a plus.
Working conditions
This job requires you to be in the community, in client’s homes, and other community partner sites. Work is often conducted in an office environment. Basic safety precautions and use of protective clothing or gear is required. Driving is essential to the function of this job. The job requires travel up to 10% of the time.
Physical requirements
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 regularly sit for extended periods of time; and regularly operate a computer and use manual dexterity for tasks such as keyboarding. The job requires regular sedentary physical effort of lifting and carrying objects weighing up to 10 lbs. The mental demands of the job include continuous comprehension, reasoning and decision making, organizing, reading and writing, and resilience.
AACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.