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Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish?

YWCA SKS is the region's largest non-profit organization with a 120+ year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year. When you work with YWCA, you make a difference.

We're women and BIPOC-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees. As a full-time YWCA employee (30+ hours), you'll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan. Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work -- apply today!

What You'll Do

The Economic Resilience Initiative (ERI) builds financial security for women and families in our community by offering financial empowerment classes, coaching, and training for service providers. The ERI is a dynamic team focused on serving the most vulnerable and marginalized members of our community. With a spirit of innovation and continuous learning, we strive to provide high-quality services that are culturally appropriate, racial justice focused, relevant and valuable to the clients we serve

In this role, you will facilitate Money Mechanics financial education classes, cultivates and maintains community partnerships, seeks input from program partners and participants, engages in community outreach, and supports program alumna.

This position has a social justice component that will require critical thinking around how external systems impact the work that we are doing through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Knowing the core principals of antiracism and grounding those principles in everyday work, as well as working well in non-white environments and championing anti-racism policy, are required job skills and core values.

As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply.

Expectation of your role

• Facilitates financial education classes for YWCA residents, clients, and for general community members, including: curriculum development, preparation, speaker/partner coordination, coordination of all logistics related to classes, materials procurement, room set-up, class facilitation, program evaluation, and follow up with participants.
• Partners with YWCA programs and other social service agencies to provide financial education customized and tailored to the needs of their clients/target population
• Engages in outreach to the community including service providers, financial institutions and participants 
• Provides technology assistance to participants including but not limited to Gmail, Google Classroom, Zoom, and Whatsapp.   
• Provides individual financial coaching to class participants to help participants meet their individual financial goals
• Works within the YWCA to integrate financial empowerment work into other programs (housing, employment, etc.)
• Uses a social justice lens to develop program structure, policies, goals/outcomes, participation, etc. 

Must have's to be successful

Sensitivity to the needs of YWCA clients, who are homeless, low income, limited English speaking or impacted by domestic violence, substance abuse or other barriers to employment, and experience with individuals and families facing these issues. 

3 years of experience working and providing services to multi-ethnic, multi-lingual populations -- especially speakers of Vietnamese, Somali, Tigrinya, Amharic, Arabic, Farsi and/or Spanish and other BIPOC communities.

3 year's professional experience or BA degree in related field and 1