Job Description
Job Description
Position Information
Title : Support Specialist On-call
FLSA Status : Hourly, Part-Time / On-Call, Non-Exempt
Location(s) : Hope Center Young Adult Emergency Home
Reports to : Hope Center Young Adult Emergency Home Program Supervisor
Job Description
Support Specialists at Rod’s House focus on providing a safe and stable environment for young adults
to learn new skills in order to thrive on their own in the community. Support Specialists help support a
wide-spectrum of needs for young people (ages 18-24) experiencing homelessness throughout
Yakima County. Support Specialists play a pivotal role as guides for young people so they may
progress from temporary sheltering to permanent, safe, and stable housing.
Duties and Responsibilities
cleanliness and tidiness at all times
Education and / or Experience
18-24), particularly youth and young adults experiencing homelessness, OR 2 years of social
Services Education Required
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
illnesses and substance use disorders
Compensation and Benefits
Work Conditions and Physical Requirements
Shifts could include overnight, evening, early mornings, or weekends, including holidays. This position
requires daily interactions with youth experiencing homelessness and with community members,
social service providers, and other organizations. Physical requirements for the position include
frequent walking, hearing, seeing, speaking, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, grasping,
climbing, and repetitive motions. This position requires exerting up to 50 pounds of force to lift, carry,
pull, or move objects. Ability to safely drive a 14-passenger van is strongly preferred.
Rod’s House will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can perform
the essential functions of a job, unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the
workplace, and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation, or if the accommodation
creates an undue hardship for Rod’s House.
Rod’s House is all about building authentic connections. We are committed to equity and inclusion and
are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people with lived experience of
homelessness and those who identify as LGBTQ+ and people of color to apply. All qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity
or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Support Specialist Center • Yakima, WA, US