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About the Role

The Department of Homeless Services (DHS) is seeking a Community Assistant to perform general housekeeping duties and routine tasks related to client services, ensuring sanitary conditions and supporting daily operations within shelter intake sites.

Responsibilities

• Perform general housekeeping duties to maintain agency and regulatory standards for health and sanitation.
• Perform routine tasks related to the provision of client services.
• Maintain sanitary conditions in restrooms, dorms, laundry rooms, common areas, outside perimeters, office space, kitchen, and cafeteria.
• Remove and dispose of litter and garbage.
• Distribute and replenish toiletries and exchange linen.
• Load and unload deliveries, stock supplies, and maintain inventory records.
• Transport household supplies, equipment, and client lockers.
• Distribute client mail and remove/store client belongings.
• Organize serving areas and participate in food service.
• Provide client escort service.
• Assist in monitoring client program activities.
• Monitor client crowd control.
• Perform other job-related duties as required.

Requirements

• Ability to understand and carry out simple instructions is required.
• Candidates must be able to understand and be understood in English.

Location

• New York City

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• No formal experience requirements

Education Level

• No formal education requirements

Salary/Compensations

• $39,970 - $43,460

About the Company

• The New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) is the largest organization in the United States dedicated to preventing and addressing homelessness.
• DHS partners with other City Agencies and nonprofit organizations to prevent homelessness, reduce street homelessness, provide temporary shelter, and connect individuals and families to stable housing.
• DHS is committed to continuous improvement and employs innovative strategies to deliver high-quality services.
• The agency manages hundreds of facilities and operates with a large team and a several billion-dollar budget.
• The Division of Shelter Intake is responsible for the oversight of the day-to-day operations of the agency’s Single Adult, Adult Families and Families with Children’s intake and assessment sites.
• This Division ensures that the City’s most vulnerable population can access shelter, according to eligibility criteria, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Equal Opportunity

• The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.