Bipoc 2slgbtqia+ Housing Manager

5 months ago

Toronto, Canada Friends of Ruby Full time

**Friends of Ruby**

Friends of Ruby is dedicated to the journey and well-being of 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, aged 16-29 through mental health services, social services, and housing. Friends of Ruby offers Youth Mental Health services, a Youth Drop-In Centre, and a Transitional Home. The Centre provides access to barrier-free counselling and therapeutic groups, case management and a drop-in space with hot meals, community, and comprehensive programming. The Home provides transitional and emergency housing, mental health, and life-skills to support youth moving towards independent living.

Friends of Ruby recognize that a diverse work force is critical to accomplishing our mission. Our goal is to attract and develop incredibly talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. **We strongly encourage applicants from the 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and ACB communities, and diverse backgrounds that meet the requirements of the role.**

**Why Work at Friends of Ruby?**
- A safe space to show up authentically through our workplace culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Gain professional and personal development through an engaging and supportive work environment.
- Create positive impact while serving and working alongside the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
- Establish meaningful connections and expand your network in the non-profit sector.
- Produce projects and outcomes that motivate, inspire, and drive you.

**Position Summary**

The Housing Manager role involves providing day-to-day supervision and mentoring to housing staff, ensuring effective teamwork, high service delivery standards, and staff development. The Housing Manager will play an integral role in contributing to and executing the strategic direction of Friends of Ruby, setting, and delegating clear priorities in the development of initiatives and programs.

The Housing Manager’s focus will be providing oversight of the facility, services and programs using a youth-centered, trauma-informed, and harm-reduction approach. The Housing Manager will also be required to collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders.

**Responsibilities**

Strategic:

- Oversee and assume responsibility for direct and indirect deliverables of housing staff.
- Support the Director of Transitional Housing in facilitating staff meetings, recruitment, and training.
- Plan, engage, and sustain processes for housing and shelter intake assessments.
- Ensure compliance with organizational policies, legislation, and City Standards.
- Manage the department's budget and all financial tasks.

Operational:

- Schedule and supervise staff, ensuring even distribution of hours and continuous learning.
- Manage housing intakes, service planning, and discharge plans for participants.
- Ensure effective case management oversight and engagement of youth within the housing program.
- Support the efficient day-to-day operation of Friends of Ruby’s Transitional House.
- Address crisis situations, manage on-call responsibilities, and determine staffing requirements.
- Work closely with the City of Toronto Shelter and Housing office for seamless intake and turnover processes.
- Ensure residents' physical, social, and developmental needs are met within the facility.

Reporting & Analytics:

- Compile, analyze, and disseminate data to inform housing practices and operations.
- Provide monthly reports with program outcomes and recommendations to Leadership.
- Coordinate with the Director of Mental Health and Youth Services for programming.
- Manage the budgeting, expense reporting and related compliances.
- Ensure compliance and reporting with all FoR policies and procedures
- Lead the Occupational health and safety compliance and filing.

People Management:

- Lead performance management, professional development, and evaluation of assigned staff.
- Foster a positive and safe work environment, overseeing staff well-being.
- Support recruitment, orientation, and training of staff, ensuring appropriate staffing levels.
- Build partnerships among residents, professionals, caregivers, and families.

Mental Health Support:

- Working collaboratively with the Director of Transitional Housing and with our Mental Health and Youth Services (MHYS) team:

- Ensuring staff complete applicable clinical assessments, safety plans and service plans with/for residents, in accordance with Housing and MHYS policies.
- Supporting service care planning from development and implementation to monitoring service care plans (i.e., applicable clinical assessments, safety plans and service plans).
- Ensuring each staff members' required resident electronic health record entries and required data entries are accurate and entered in a timely manner.
- Liaising with relevant community health services to identify partnership opportunities and engage the appropriate resources to deescalate crises.
- Clinical issues related to the target population

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