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Shelter Director

The Salvation Army · Elmira, NY · 3 wk ago
OTHRFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. Also remove duplicated lines, navigation, etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Let's parse the posting. Content: - Title: Seeking a Shelter Director to join our Elmira Safe House Team (we don't repeat as heading) - Full Time opportunities offer: - Generous time off every year including 14 paid holidays, up to 3 personal days, vacation time, and sick time - Employer funded Pension Plan (company contributions begin after 1 year of continuous employment) - Comprehensive Health Care Coverage with low cost employee premiums, co-pays, and deductibles - Company Paid Basic Term Life Insurance for Employee - Long Term Disability Insurance - Eligibility for supplemental insurance plans including Short Term Disability, AFLAC, and Voluntary Term Life - Flexible Spending Account - Eligibility for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Program - Tax Deferred Annuity (403B) - Christmas Bonus - SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF POSITION: To oversee all aspects of the Safehouse Program which provides comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence. The Director of Safehouse is directly responsible to the Commanding Officer of The Salvation Army, Elmira. - ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: (list) - Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. - Oversee general operation of the Safehouse shelter and program assuring that all aspects of the program are fulfilled and the program is in regulatory status. - Supervise staff and volunteers; evaluate performance and recommend hiring and termination of staff members; maintain schedules for 24-hours coverage; keep employee files up to date. - Oversee the provision of the following comprehensive victim services assuring that all victims served are treated with dignity and respect to include - Assisting victims with setting and accomplishing short and long term goals - Counseling - Follow up contact through in-person contacts, telephone contacts or written communications - Personal advocacy services to assist victims in securing rights, remedies and services with other agencies or systems - Criminal Justice support and accompaniment - Crisis Hotline counseling - Provide information and referrals - Facilitating to weekly support group - Assist with the filing of NYS Crime Victim Board compensation claims including making victims aware of the availability of the program - Prepare and maintain reports, records and - Fulfilling the mandated NYS requirement of reporting suspected child abuse and - Represent and promote The Salvation Army, Safehouse at community presentations and - Assist with budget preparation and review for the - Oversee the program to ensure the projected budget is - Accept any other duties as assigned by the Corps - Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice due to business needs. - SPECIAL SKILLS, CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: - Bachelor’s degree with three to five years of related - Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills; - Exhibit excellent organizational and time management skills; - Supervisory skills a must; - Valid Driver’s license that meets The Salvation Army insurance requirements - We are an equal opportunity employer... (boilerplate to remove) We need to produce sections: maybe About the role (scope and purpose), Responsibilities (essential duties), Requirements/Qualifications/Skills (special skills etc.), Benefits (the list of benefits). Pay and Schedule not present, so omit. We must not repeat job title as heading. Use

for each section heading. We need to preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate like "Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions." That's actually part of essential duties; it's substantive? It's a statement about accommodations; we can keep it as part of responsibilities. We need to remove duplicated lines: there are some incomplete sentences like "Prepare and maintain reports, records and" and "Fulfilling the mandated NYS requirement of reporting suspected child abuse and" and "Represent and promote The Salvation Army, Safehouse at community presentations and" and "Assist with budget preparation and review for the" and "Oversee the program to ensure the projected budget is". These seem truncated; but they are part of the posting; we must preserve them as is, not invent or summarize away detail. So we keep them exactly as they appear. We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. There's no explicit application instructions. The EEO statement at end we remove. Also remove "Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice due to business needs." That's somewhat boilerplate but it's about the job description; maybe we keep? It's not specific duties; it's a disclaimer. The instruction says remove duplicated lines and boilerplate. This is a generic disclaimer; likely considered boilerplate. Safer to remove. Now structure:

About the role

To oversee all aspects of the Safehouse Program which provides comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence. The Director of Safehouse is directly responsible to the Commanding Officer of The Salvation Army, Elmira.

Responsibilities

  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • Oversee general operation of the Safehouse shelter and program assuring that all aspects of the program are fulfilled and the program is in regulatory status.
  • Supervise staff and volunteers; evaluate performance and recommend hiring and termination of staff members; maintain schedules for 24-hours coverage; keep employee files up to date.
  • Oversee the provision of the following comprehensive victim services assuring that all victims served are treated with dignity and respect to include:
    • Assisting victims with setting and accomplishing short and long term goals
    • Counseling
    • Follow up contact through in-person contacts, telephone contacts or written communications
    • Personal advocacy services to assist victims in securing rights, remedies and services with other agencies or systems
    • Criminal Justice support and accompaniment
    • Crisis Hotline counseling
    • Provide information and referrals
    • Facilitating to weekly support group
    • Assist with the filing of NYS Crime Victim Board compensation claims including making victims aware of the availability of the program
    • Prepare and maintain reports, records and
    • Fulfilling the mandated NYS requirement of reporting suspected child abuse and
    • Represent and promote The Salvation Army, Safehouse at community presentations and
    • Assist with budget preparation and review for the
    • Oversee the program to ensure the projected budget is
    • Accept any other duties as assigned by the Corps
But we need to be careful: The original had a paragraph then a list. We can flatten: each bullet as
  • . The nested list may be okay but we can also just list each as separate
  • without nesting. Simpler: just list each duty as
  • . The instruction: Use
    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can have a flat list. Thus:

      Responsibilities

      • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
      • Oversee general operation of the Safehouse shelter and program assuring that all aspects of the program are fulfilled and the program is in regulatory status.
      • Supervise staff and volunteers; evaluate performance and recommend hiring and termination of staff members; maintain schedules for 24-hours coverage; keep employee files up to date.
      • Oversee the provision of the following comprehensive victim services assuring that all victims served are treated with dignity and respect to include Assisting victims with setting and accomplishing short and long term goals
      • Counseling
      • Follow up contact through in-person contacts, telephone contacts or written communications
      • Personal advocacy services to assist victims in securing rights, remedies and services with other agencies or systems
      • Criminal Justice support and accompaniment
      • Crisis Hotline counseling
      • Provide information and referrals
      • Facilitating to weekly support group
      • Assist with the filing of NYS Crime Victim Board compensation claims including making victims aware of the availability of the program
      • Prepare and maintain reports, records and
      • Fulfilling the mandated NYS requirement of reporting suspected child abuse and
      • Represent and promote The Salvation Army, Safehouse at community presentations and
      • Assist with budget preparation and review for the
      • Oversee the program to ensure the projected budget is
      • Accept any other duties as assigned by the Corps
      But the line "Oversee the provision of the following comprehensive victim services assuring that all victims served are treated with dignity and respect to include" is a heading for sublist; we could keep as a
    • then sublist. However to keep it simple, we can keep as a
    • and then sublist. The instruction didn't forbid nested lists. It said use
      • for any list. Nested is still
        • . So we can do nested. I'll do nested for clarity. Now Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: The posting has "SPECIAL SKILLS, CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS". We'll make a section maybe "Qualifications" or "Requirements". Use

          Qualifications

          and list. Content: - Bachelor’s degree with three to five years of related - Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills; - Exhibit excellent organizational and time management skills; - Supervisory skills a must; - Valid Driver’s license that meets The Salvation Army insurance requirements Note: "Bachelor’s degree with three to five years of related" seems incomplete; but we keep as is. We'll output as
          • each. Now Benefits: The list at top. We'll make

            Benefits

            and list. Content: - Generous time off every year including 14 paid holidays, up to 3 personal days, vacation time, and sick time - Employer funded Pension Plan (company contributions begin after 1 year of continuous employment) - Comprehensive Health Care Coverage with low cost employee premiums, co-pays, and deductibles - Company Paid Basic Term Life Insurance for Employee - Long Term Disability Insurance - Eligibility for supplemental insurance plans including Short Term Disability, AFLAC, and Voluntary Term Life - Flexible Spending Account - Eligibility for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Program - Tax Deferred Annuity (403B) - Christmas Bonus We'll list each as
          • . Now we need to ensure we didn't include Pay
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