San Francisco ReServe matches San Francisco residents over the age of sixty and adults (18+) with disabilities with meaningful part time employment. To apply for a job, review the following job descriptions and click on the corresponding link to complete your online application. If you have questions, please contact us directly at sfreserve@sfcommunityliving.org.
Where: San Francisco
When: Immediately
Hours: 16 hours/week; Stipend: $16.50/hr.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as the initial face of the foundation, including greeting visitors and answering and screening telephone call
- Manage the organization’s Community Room calendar, and complete database entry in Salesforce for Community Room reservations and grant-related activities
- Prepare Community Room for meetings, orient users on equipment usage, handle breakdown and cleanup after meetings; serve as a liaison to Community Room users by answering any questions they have and processing paperwork
- Event planning for Board, Executive and Programs, including but not limited to sending out invitations, set-up, and food ordering
- Create and manage invitation list for events using Salesforce database, online invitations and other electronic tools
- Take staff meeting notes, and transcribe notes for distribution
- Assist in preparing Board meeting materials and uploading into BoardEffect system
- Provide administrative support for foundation staff, including any special projects designated by the CEO, photocopying, collating, scanning, mailing, scheduling, and filing documents
- Handle incoming and outgoing correspondences such as U.S. mail, email, i.e. Metta info email
- Set up meetings, conference calls and webinars as needed
- Maintain office staff calendar
- Maintain a clean reception area, Community Room, supply room, and kitchen
Qualifications and Requirements:
- At least 3 years of administrative experience required
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree recommended
- Strong computer skills, including maintaining a database. Proficient with Windows, Microsoft
- Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access), Salesforce/foundationConnect, BoardEffect
- Experience with list management processes and tools
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage multiple ongoing tasks
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Work independently and take initiative in decision-making and problem-solving
- Working collaboratively as part of a small team
- Comfortable moving tables and chairs, on casters, in fully carpeted room
Position: On line Sales Manager
Where: San Francisco
When: Immediately
Part Time: 10 hours per week, Stipend $16.50 hr.
Mission
This organization is a diverse community of individuals, families and institutions who champion free public access to information, resources and opportunities for all people. Their mission is to strengthen, support and advocate for a premier public library system in San Francisco.
Summary of Responsibilities:
The Online Sales reports to the Online Sales Manager contributes to the mission by assisting in executing online sales of used books and media.
Deliverables;
- Post merchandise on Amazon
- Package, ship and track merchandise appropriately
- Work with staff and volunteers in the online sales department
Mission and Values & Community Relationships:
- Positively represent the mission and community value of the organization with book donors, volunteers, library staff, vendors and the community
Other Responsibilities:
- Ability to fulfill physical requirements of job duties, lifting (up to 35 pounds), carrying, pushing, pulling, typing, phones, etc.
- Job site is on the second floor of a building that does not have an elevator. Person in this position must be able to walk up one flight of stairs.
Where: San Francisco
When: Immediately
Hours: 10 – 20/week; Stipend: $16.50/hr.
Mission: Our Partner’s philosophy is a multi-layered approach built upon the foundation that each child deserves a warm, stimulating environment that fosters positive self-esteem and develops the love of learning. They provide multiple programs for children.
General Duties:
All teachers are responsible for the general supervision, management and assurance of safety, security and well-being of each child in the program. Support teachers and provide classroom staff with assistance including reading to children, rocking babies, etc. Additionally, some support teachers may fill specific roles such as outdoor classroom teacher to enrich the program for children.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Desire to want to work with the children, reading stories, rocking babies, and general assistance with caring for children as a valued asset to the teacher in a class room day care setting.
- Greet each child in a warm and friendly manner and provide quality customer service at all times (for children, families, center staff and the community).
- Interact with the children and encourage their involvement in activities.
- Encourage and model language expansion, extended learning and problem-solving strategies throughout the day.
- Support classroom staff as needed when substituting for absent staff.
Such as:
- Implement daily activities based on approved curriculum and center philosophy.
- Provide a warm, safe, and caring learning environment that is kept orderly, clean, appealing and in compliance with Environment Rating Scale or similar tool.
- Encourage family involvement in center activities and educational opportunities.
- Follow universal health precautions in all situations.
- Perform daily health checks upon arrival of every child.
- Observe children to detect signs of illness, injury, emotional disturbance, learning disorder, speech problem, or other special need and reports these signs immediately to the Program Director for needed follow-up.
- Assist in maintaining classroom and playground, providing a safe and healthy environment.
- Ensure center personnel policies are followed.
- Keep scheduled hours and sign in/out every shift.
- Avoid showing favoritism or bias towards individual staff, parents, or children.
- Participate in staff meetings, trainings, conferences, etc., as required.
- Utilize resource materials, articles, videos, etc.
- Participate in on-site and off-site professional growth activities.
- Work cooperatively with center administration for the success of the organization.
- Additional duties may be assigned as needed for smooth operation of the organization.
Minimum Requirements:
- Must be 18 years or older.
- High school graduate or equivalent GED.
- One year experience with infant/toddlers and/or preschool children preferred.
- Pass physical exam, TB test, Criminal Record Clearance and Fingerprints and all other state license requirements, to be paid for by Partner, where applicable.
- Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Establish and maintain effective, working relationships with children, parents, and staff.
- Maintain and support program policies and procedures.
- Expressed commitment to the program and its philosophies during the term of your employment.
Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
- Ability to sit/stand both in/outdoors for prolonged periods.
- Ability to see, hear and speak.
- Ability to participate in regular standing, walking, kneeling, bending, twisting, pushing, pulling, crouching, grasping, reaching above, and below the shoulder.
- Ability to lift/carry 25 lbs.
- Ability to multi-task in an energy demanding and often noisy environment.
- Ability to operate computer and complete other repetitive motion tasks.
Where: San Francisco
When: Immediately
Hours: 15 – 20/week; Stipend: $16.50/hr.
The initial period of hire will be 3 months with continuation based upon mutual satisfaction by both parties.
Mission: Our Partner is a full day center serving children 2-5 years of age. The program serves a diverse group of children including children with special needs.
Preschool Art Coordinator Requirements and Responsibilities
- Have prior experience offering developmentally appropriate art activities for preschool age children. Art activities for preschool children should emphasize the process rather than the product. Guidelines will be provided, but prior experience is necessary.
- Talk to children in a manner that reflects the organization’s social emotional philosophy.
- Work, when needed, with children on other routines.
- Provide a monthly calendar of activities to the supervisor including materials needed. As much as possible the Coordinator will plan activities with materials and supplies already in the center, but the Coordinator can order through the supervisor new materials as long as sufficient notice is given.
- Set up the art center with daily activities such as putting paper on the easel and ensuring there are sufficient paper, crayons, markers, etc. in the center.
- Set up additional appropriate activities in the center at least 2 or 3 times per week. Children learn from and enjoy repetition; therefore, these planned activities do not have to be different each day.
- Proof of recent vaccinations, including TB. To be paid for by Partner, where applicable.
- Facilitate some group projects.
- Work with supervisor and other staff to develop projects that reflect the cultures of the children.
- Work with other teachers to help them extend the curriculum they are developing.
- Sit with the children while carrying out the activities being careful to let children do their own work without providing models.
- Teach the children to use the materials in a respectful area.
- Engage the children in set-up and clean-up as part of the process.
- Be aware of the program philosophy.
- Be able to call for support from the regular teachers and staff when needed.
- Accept supervision and ask for help when needed.
- Attend occasional meetings related to the position and/or art.
Position: Facilities Lead
Where: San Francisco
When: Immediately
Part Time: 10 -12 hours per week, Stipend $16.50 hr.
Mission
Our Partner’s mission is to to link surplus with needs, promote naturally abundant renewable resources, and create inspirational eco-spaces. This is a joyous environment that welcomes everyone who walks in the door. Please note that there are often gentle dogs on the premises.
Responsibilities:
Opening Up:
- Turn on facility lights and lights for fish tank
- Open window blinds
- Assure fish tank water level is accurate and sufficient
- Check bathroom for supplies
- Sweep and/or declutter the front entrance
- Turn on iPads to respective program pages
- Turn on both TVs to video stream
- Check phone messages
- Dust blinds and items in front in shop
Closing Up:
- Turn off lights, ESPECIALLY fish tank light
- Take boards and fountain inside
- Close blinds
- Change bathroom towels
- Feed fish/check if fish have been fed
- Check that iPad are charging
- Make sure machines/heater are off
Additional Responsibilities:
- Promote the mission and programs of the organization
- As a team member of a diverse and small team you may be asked to pitch in to do other tasks, based on ability
Qualifications:
- Responsible and self-motivated
- Able to see what is needed and pitch in
- Ownership of the look and running of the facility
- Understand how your work supports both staff and visitors
- Trouble shooter and problem solver
Position Title: Program Assistant
Where: Berkeley (8 walking minutes from ASHBY BART) * Cost of BART ticket will be refunded by Organization
When: Immediately
Part Time: 10 hrs./week; stipend $16.50 hr. (cost of BART ticket will be refunded by Organization)
Mission of Organization: Our Partner is a Bay Area nonprofit organization that has been offering learning forums and workshops open to both professionals and individuals over the last 10 years. Their programs promote integrated solutions, focusing on the home environment and its context, rather than an institutional environment, as the major contributor to healthy aging. Programs are currently offered in San Francisco and the East Bay.
Position Summary:
A professional who will assist our Partner’s interdisciplinary and intergenerational team of committed professional volunteers and the Executive Director to plan, develop and execute their programs.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist with forum planning (pre- and post- forum tasks from announcements to managing presenters and follow ups
- Manage and update calendars, send meeting invitations and reminders
- Track donations and send recognition
- Assist communications manager with access to forum content and presenters
- Maintain electronic and physical filing system (nonprofit status documents, minutes, etc.)
Skills and Qualifications:
- Comfort with Microsoft Office Suite, emailing
- Experience with electronic and physical filing systems, including naming and storing documents appropriately
- Proactively organize communications to assure stakeholder engagement, including donors
- Strong writing and verbal communication skills
Minimum Requirements: English proficiency
Also Desirable: Comfort drafting correspondences for Executive Director’s use
Other Considerations: Comfortable with commuting on BART
Position Title: Marketing Specialist
Where: San Francisco
When: As soon as available
Part Time: Up to 10 hrs./week, $16.50/hour stipend. The position will be for 3 months with an option to extend.
Mission of Organization: Our Partner’s mission is to provide education to encourage people to vote in elections and participate in government. They also engage in advocacy to influence public policy that benefits the community. People of all genders are welcome to apply.
Programs include registering voters, creating guides to ballot propositions, hosting non-partisan candidate forums, and organizing events and creating educational materials on community issues. We are a volunteer-run organization with one other ReServist, and we are looking to bring on an additional ReServist to help support our communications efforts.
Position Summary:
A ReServist to help us grow the organization by supporting our communications efforts, including content creation about elections and local issues in San Francisco, email communications, event promotion, social media, and website support.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include:
- Creating content with updates about the organization, and local San Francisco issues
- Creating and maintaining a communications editorial calendar
- Preparing posts for social media
- Creating communications materials for events, print and digital
- Preparing and posting content on the organization’s website
- Helping prepare the monthly email newsletter and annual membership notice emails required by our bylaws
- Coordinating with other communications volunteers and the Communications Chair(s)
- Coordinating with other committees to source content
All communications must be with a careful eye toward our non-partisan policy.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Strong grammar and writing skills
- Attention to detail
- Interest in researching and writing about elections and local issues
- Experience with MailChimp
- Experience with Eventbrite and/or other online event tools
- Experience with websites (ideally GoDaddy)
- Experience with social media (Facebook and Twitter)
- Experience with Google Suite including Google docs
- Graphic design experience preferred
- Patience and flexibility when working with volunteers
- Belief in and support of our mission of non-partisanship and equal opportunity
Additional Requirements:
Our Partner has a small office on Market Street. After shelter in place ends, the ReServist could work from that office if they chose to. However, most individuals in the organization conduct much of their work remotely from home. We use Google Suite and Zoom to collaborate virtually.
* If candidates move forward after the initial interview, they will be asked to respond to a communications-related case scenario.
Other Considerations:
Our Partner is a non-partisan organization, and the ReServist could not oppose or support candidates as a representative of the organization. They would ask the ReServist to sign our non-partisan agreement.
The organization is a collaborative environment and there is opportunity to work with Board members and volunteers on a number of projects.
Because many of their volunteers and members work full time, our events and meetings are typically in the evenings and on weekends. The Partner is generally flexible and do their best to work with different schedules, but it is helpful to be able to attend some evening and weekend meetings/events.
Position Title: Match Support Specialist
Where: San Francisco
When: Flexible days (Sunday – Saturday); Flexible hours between 8am-6pm (4 hours/day)
Part Time: 15 – 20 hrs./week; stipend $16.50/hr., 3 months with an option to extend
Mission of Organization: Our Partner promotes and cultivates healthy communities for positive aging through an innovative continuum that actively supports the whole person.
Position Summary:
Our Partner’s program matches older adults (60+) with volunteers for weekly friendly phone visits. The Match Support Specialist will be responsible for providing follow up calls to participants at regularly scheduled intervals to assess their experience with Social Call, through informal conversation and administering satisfaction and loneliness surveys. This includes scheduling these calls and any follow-up assignments into a database system, logging detailed call notes, and working with the Social Call Director and Program Managers around issues of concern. The purpose of these calls is to check in about the match, provide clarification about the program, administer participant surveys, and provide general program quality control.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Make regularly scheduled phone calls to participants
- Provide excellent customer service and communication (both written and verbal)
- Be knowledgeable about local and nationwide resources for older adults, including Covia Community Services
- Enter detailed call notes, notifications, and follow-up assignments into database
Skills and Qualifications:
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including communication skills (verbal and written)
- Proficient use of MS Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Ability to learn and regularly use organizational database
- Understand local and national resources or ability to learn these quickly
- Understand CA mandated reporting and confidentiality laws
- Excellent organizational skills
- Ability to work remotely and independently
- Possess cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Bilingual in English/Spanish strongly desired
Additional Requirements :
Phone & Internet access. If needed, a tablet and a phone may be provided.
Physical Requirements: N/A
Also Desirable:
- Bilingual English/Spanish
Other Considerations:
This position will involve working from home and will require a space free of distractions for frequent phone calls.
Position Title: Match Support Specialist Bilingual English/Spanish
Where: San Francisco
When: Flexible days (Sunday – Saturday); Flexible hours between 8am-6pm (4 hours/day)
Part Time: 15 – 20 hrs./week; stipend $16.50/hr., 3 months with an option to extend
Mission of Organization: Our Partner promotes and cultivates healthy communities for positive aging through an innovative continuum that actively supports the whole person.
Position Summary:
Our Partner’s programs, Well Connected and Well Connected Español connect older adults (60+) to phone or online based classes, conversations, and other activities. The Match Support Specialist will be responsible for providing follow up calls to participants at regularly scheduled intervals to assess their experience with Well Connected and/or Well Connected Español through informal conversation and administering satisfaction and loneliness surveys. This includes scheduling these calls and any follow-up assignments into a database system, logging detailed call notes, and working with the Well Connected and Well Connected Español Directors and staff around issues of concern. The purpose of these calls is to check in about program engagement, provide clarification about the program, administer participant surveys, and provide general program quality control.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Make regularly scheduled phone calls to participants
- Provide excellent customer service and communication (both written and verbal)
- Be knowledgeable about local and nationwide resources for older adults, including Covia Community Services
- Enter detailed call notes, notifications, and follow-up assignments into database
Skills and Qualifications:
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including communication skills (verbal and written)
- Proficient use of MS Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Ability to learn and regularly use organizational database
- Understand local and national resources or ability to learn these quickly
- Understand CA mandated reporting and confidentiality laws
- Excellent organizational skills
- Ability to work remotely and independently
- Possess cultural awareness and sensitivity
Additional Requirement :
Phone & Internet access. If needed, a tablet and a phone may be provided.
Physical Requirements: N/A
Also Desirable: N/A
Other Considerations:
This position will involve working from home and will require a space free of distractions for frequent phone calls.
Position Title: Information & Referral Specialist
Where: San Francisco
When: Tentative start late August 2020
Part Time: 10 hrs./week; stipend $16.50 hr.
Mission of Organization: Our Partner’s mission is to connect diverse communities to opportunities, resources and each other to achieve our vision of a stronger, healthier, and more equitable world for LGBT people and our allies.
Position Description: This is an on-site position, in downtown San Francisco. It is within a space that has been redesigned following the City and State guidelines for safeguarding both staff and public to minimize exposure to the coronavirus; including adequate spacing, mask requirements and hand washing protocols and other protective measure.
The Information & Referral Specialist supports the operations of the organization’s Welcome Desk and Information & Referral (I&R) Program, which are volunteer run and supported by Community Programs staff. I&R will greet and provide wayfinding to the building’s visitors, answer phones and emails, connect community members to culturally appropriate resources, and research and document LGBTQ-specific and culturally appropriate referrals and resources in the Bay Area.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Must be comfortable interacting with a diverse range of community members, including people experiencing homelessness and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
- Ideal candidate will be familiar with some resources in San Francisco
- Motivated to perform research and readings to continue learning
Skills and Qualifications:
- Must have strong interpersonal and communication skills and be confident in using Mac and PC computers while navigating the Internet and email
- Candidate must be proactive in maintaining a welcoming and calm space while ensuring visitors and callers are connected to information and referrals
Minimum Requirements: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, and PowerPoint required, and Office 365 experience is preferred.
Physical Requirements: sit at a computer, type, answer telephone, greet visitors
Additional Requirements: Depending on program needs and the candidate’s experience and skillset, the I&R Specialist may also provide back up in the CyberCenter and perform some scheduling tasks and basic training of new desk volunteers. This position works under the supervision of the Community Programs Manager and will receive skill-based trainings such as de-escalation and cultural humility trainings as needed.
Also Desirable: Research skills, willingness to continue learning and gaining skills
Other Considerations: Familiarity with LGBTQ community