Join a dynamic, fast-paced, inclusive and supportive workplace focused on high quality services to children and families in our community.
Salary: $35,360 per year
Supportive workplace
Excellent Benefits
- Among the highest compensation of any agency in the area
- All staff paid hourly/overtime work receives overtime pay
- Training hours paid
- Comprehensive medical/vision
- Dental benefits with employer contribution
- 11 paid holidays plus an extra day for your birthday and a floating holiday
- 12 - 24 paid days off, depending on length of service
- Mileage reimbursed at .655 cents
- Monthly phone stipend of $20
- 403(b) retirement plan with profit sharing contributions
- Cost of living pay increases annually; merit increases at time of evaluation
- Annual bonuses to staff as finances allow
- Short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance premiums paid in full by employer
- Employee assistance program
Our Values
· Commitment to staff and clients of all backgrounds and identities
· Emphasis on positive workplace culture and teamwork
· Ethical, non-coercive practices in adoption
· Vocal advocates for social and political change benefiting children and families
· Recognized since 2011 by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s All Children, All Families program for supporting LGBTQ+ youth and families
Hands Across The Water is a licensed, non-profit child placing agency.
The Document Specialist/Office Assistant position is an in-office position. This position works directly with staff in our licensing, foster care and adoption programs to provide timely completion and organization of files and database updates. Completion of job requires contact with foster parents, adopting parents, DHHS workers, partner agencies, service providers and HATW staff.
Hands Across The Water does not discriminate against an employee or applicant for employment with respect to hire, tenure, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, or a matter directly or indirectly related to employment, because of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, height, weight, familial/marital status, disability, military service obligation, veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws.
The Document Specialist/Office Assistant will follow and uphold the agency’s Vision and Mission Statement, including its commitment to inclusion and diversity.
High school diploma required, some college preferred. The Document Specialist/Office Assistant shall possess sufficient skill and knowledge of office procedures, files, documents, and tasks. The Document Specialist/Office Assistant shall have excellent computer and organizational skills and the ability to grasp the necessary software utilized in the job tasks, including Excel. Candidate must be able to lift office supplies including boxes of paper and operate office equipment.
The Document Specialist/Office Assistant must be very detail-oriented, thorough and aware of priorities and deadlines in order to maximize efficiency. The Document Specialist/Office Assistant must possess a high level of written and oral communication skills, a professional, polite manner, and provide high quality customer service to those within the agency and those served by the agency. Candidate must have the ability to be flexible and able to handle change, be a team player yet able to work independently.
Candidate may not have been convicted of child abuse or neglect, a felony involving harm or threatened harm to an individual within the 10 years immediately preceding the date of hire or be listed on the central registry as a perpetrator of child abuse or child neglect.
The Document Specialist/Office Assistant shall possess a valid Driver’s License, positive driving record and proof of automobile insurance.