POSITION: Ploughshares Nursery General Manager
DIVISION: Ploughshares Nursery
REPORTS TO: Director of Social Enterprise
CLASSIFICATION: Full Time, Exempt
SUPERVISES: On the Job Trainees, Garden and Propagation Coordinator
The Alameda Point Collaborative works to end homelessness by providing housing and services to create communities where formerly homeless families and individuals can flourish.
Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) is a nonprofit agency operating on the site of the former Naval air base in Alameda, managing 200 housing units for over 500 formerly homeless residents and providing support services including case management, counseling, employment training and children and youth services.
Ploughshares Nursery is an environmentally responsible social enterprise of APC that serves as a job training program and transitional employment worksite for formerly homeless adults. Ploughshares is a retail and production nursery that is open to the public five days a week.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee all aspects of nursery operations including purchasing, inventory management, retail sales, and propagation in the context of a social enterprise environment serving formerly homeless adults
- Provide On the Job Training instruction for APC resident employees
- Continue developing the On the Job Training curriculum
- Manage and continuously improve the retail space
- Participate in outside marketing events and other public outreach activities
- Attend APC management meetings
- In consultation with Propagation Coordinator, manage volunteer groups assigned to work at the nursery
Minimal requirements:
- Extensive knowledge of California native, edible and drought tolerant plants - horticulture and propagation
- Minimum two years supervisory experience
- Experience working with people of diverse backgrounds
- Ability to lift 50 lbs, work on feet, do physical labor, work in inclement weather
- Basic computer proficiency, including MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong professional written communication skills (will be asked to prepare a writing sample)
- Committed to growing plants in an environmentally responsible manner
- Must be able to work weekends
- Must be able to meet and maintain the good driver requirements for coverage by APC insurance carrier
We would love if you had:
- Gardening instruction experience
- Landscape design and installation experience
- Experience with FileMaker Pro and Adobe InDesign software
POSITION: Support Specialist (Case Management)
DIVISION: Housing & Services
Department: Support Services
REPORTS TO: Adult & Family Services Manager
CLASSIFICATION: Nonexempt
SUPERVISES: N/A
PRIMARY FUNCTION
Under the general direction of the Adult & Family Services Manager, the Support Specialist engages residents to provide and coordinate supportive service needs for APC resident families and individual. The support specialist conducts intake and assessments, develops individualized family service plans with assigned families, maintains supportive family support relationships, brokers and coordinates with internal and external providers to meet comprehensive needs. In addition, the support specialist is accountable for ensuring timely and consistent completion of all program service documentation. As a member of an interdisciplinary support team, the Support Specialist has leadership responsibility for ensuring coordination of support among team members. Support Specialists are expected to work in partnership with the resident community to develop and implement individual and group service activities that support the creation and maintenance of a strong APC resident community.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES
- Outreach, engage and build supportive partnerships with individual caseload of APC residents/families.
- Engage new residents and complete new resident orientation and enrollment activities and documentation. .
- Complete family support needs assessment and develops an individualized family support partnership plan with each resident family and model accountability in the meeting service partnership plan agreements.
- Develop and maintain regularly scheduled meetings with residents to review progress and coordination of the support plan; identify and broker additional resources as needed and provide life skills and supportive counseling to address barriers to progress.
- Identify and work with accountability to develop and maintain community alliances and resources for APC residents.
- Participate as an active member of the APC services team to achieve program and service outcome expectations.
- Monitor needs assessments for residents, inform supervisor of gaps in service, and assist in developing services, resources and/or referrals for residents to meet service needs
- Work pro-actively with families to identify and address potential conflicts, crisis, meet wellness and recovery management support needs and address and follow up conflicts and crisis that arise.
- Ensure that all program services documentation is complete and consistently meets contractual and programmatic regulatory requirements.
- Facilitate and teach functional skills workshops or groups as needed and directed
- Prepare for and participate in occasional social/recreational/holiday events and/or other community building events at APC
- Actively participate in personal learning by attending all required staff meetings, assigned conferences, trainings and case conferences as required.
- Provide transportation support for essential resident appointments and for resource or recreational access.
- Other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
- B.A. degree in psychology, social work or related field, or equivalent experience
- Two years experience in social services providing direct services to individuals or families who have been homeless, disabled or socially/economically disenfranchised.
- Experience working with a social rehabilitation or strength based wellness model of service delivery.
- Demonstrated positive history maintaining confidentiality and managing personal boundaries in a social service environment.
- Must possess a valid CA Drivers’ License and meet and maintain APC insurance coverage requirements.
- Fingerprint/background check clearance required
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & SKILLS
- Strong communication and coordination skills to work with initiative as member of a diverse collaborative services team
- Demonstrated cultural competency and interpersonal engagement skills while working in a racially and culturally diverse community
- Openness and willingness to practice and model new learning.
- Ability to adapt work schedule to meet program and client needs
- Ability to withstand and maintain personal boundaries when challenged or frustrated.
- Ability to accurately communicate observations, plans, actions in verbally and in writing.
- Computer literacy that includes functional knowledge of MS Word, and Outlook and ability to learn and maneuver in a local area network environment.
- Reasoning and thinking skills and ability to problem solve.
- Occasional lifting of 10-20 pounds
- Able to sit for long periods of time.
APC offers a competitive salary and benefits package.
TO APPLY: Please submit a current resume and cover letter “Attn: HR”
via MAIL (677 W Ranger Ave., Alameda, CA 94501) or FAX (510-898-7858) or EMAIL HR@apcollaborative.org Emails must contain the position title “NWS” in subject line.
Alameda Point Collaborative is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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