Seasonal Janitorial Program Coordinator
About Mobile Loaves & Fishes
Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF) is a social outreach ministry that has been empowering communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless since 1998. Founded in Austin, Texas, the organization serves its homeless neighbors through three core programs: Truck Ministry, Community First! Village, and Community Works. Often referred to as the most talked about neighborhood in Austin, Community First! Village is a 51-acre master planned development that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness. We are now embarking on a new phase of community expansion, adding more than 1400 new neighbors over the next 5-10 years.
About the Role
The Seasonal Janitorial Program Coordinator is an integral part of the Site Operations Team. This temporary, seasonal, part-time role will support the team through July by helping manage a team of resident independent contractors who maintain the cleanliness and daily operations of various facilities at Community First! Village (CFV), a 100-acre master-planned community designed by Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF) to provide affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness.
This position is expected to work 20-25 hours per week through July. Hours are somewhat flexible based on candidate availability; however, preferred availability includes Monday through Friday mornings 7am-12pm. This role reports to the Janitorial Manager and is based at Community First! Village, located at 9116 Hog Eye Road, Austin, TX 78724.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Coordinating Janitorial jobs for Independent Contractors maintaining facilities at CFV
- Assisting with preparation and processing of Independent Contractor paperwork and contracts
- Ordering and distributing supplies to Independent Contractors
- Supporting maintenance of the CFV Janitorial Supply Inventory and Storeroom
- Receiving and entering associated maintenance and repair requests in CFV's work order system and ensuring clear communication with the Maintenance Team
- Responsible for quality control on all supplies received, checking for quantity and damage
- Conducting regular quality checks on facility cleanliness and notifying appropriate parties of recurring issues, unforeseen conditions, or contractor no-shows that may impact facility cleanliness
- Coordinating with other MLF Staff for additional or special janitorial needs
- Perform duties consistently and ethically within the vision, mission, values and goals of MLF
- Attend team and other meetings as needed
- Other Duties & Responsibilities as needed
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Principles
- MLF is a faith-based organization whose ideals and philosophy come directly from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As an organization, we strive to reflect this precept in our communications, both internally and externally.
- Commitment to serving those who have experienced homelessness and personal alignment with MLF's vision, mission, core values, and goals.
- Comfortable working directly with individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness in a highly relational environment
- Ability to provide clear expectations, accountability, and day-to-day supervision
- Strong communication, organizational, and detail-oriented skills
- Ability to train and manage a diverse group of contract workers with a variety of skill levels
- Demonstrates patience, compassion, professionalism, and sound judgment
- Inventory management experience preferred
- Commercial cleaning or facilities operations experience preferred
- Ability to quickly become knowledgeable about cleaning equipment, supplies, and best practices
- Comfortable teaching others and providing guidance
- Must have a valid driver's license
Work Environment & Physical Demands
- Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs.
- Ability to stand, climb, stoop, kneel, or crouch, to reach with hands and arms, and move about the property, including a construction environment
- Exposed to all outside weather conditions, including wet or humid conditions, fumes, airborne particles, and moving mechanical parts, equipment
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate; however, some occasional high noise levels may be expected
MLF VISION
We empower communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless.
MLF MISSION
We provide food and clothing, cultivate community, and promote dignity to our homeless brothers and sisters in need.
GOALS
- Transform the way people view the stereotype of those who find themselves homeless
- Reconnect the homeless to self, family and community
- Help the chronically homeless rediscover and utilize their God-given talents to do purposeful work
- Connect human to human, heart to heart through the fellowship of food and hospitality
- Inspire people into a lifestyle of abundance by giving their best first
BELIEF STATEMENTS
The vision is supported by belief statements centered on our belief that homelessness is the result of a profound, catastrophic loss of family:
- God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life
- By virtue of being created by God in His image, we are all called to live in community and relationship with Him through each other
- The family is the original cell of social life
- You shall love your neighbor as yourself
- All members of the human family are equal in dignity
- The Lord God took the man and settled him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and care for it. Gen 2:15
CORE VALUES
MLF is committed to fostering a culture that prioritizes relational connection. We believe there is opportunity in every aspect of our work to be relational in a highly transactional world. In this culture, transactions are means to relational ends, not the other way around.
This begins with the countercultural love poured out by Jesus Christ and grows as imperfect individuals strive to show this love to each other human-to-human, heart-to-heart.
Each individual's openness to the journey of their own personal growth is essential in building our relational culture, and we believe this culture flourishes as we each continuously strive to more fully embody these four core values:
- Faith: We define Faith as the foundational belief that our world and all our work belong to God. This allows us to engage our work with joy and lightheartedness, knowing that we are not ultimately in control.
- Humility: We define Humility as rightly viewing oneself as a single piece of a grander story. This humility leads to a view of oneself that is neither too high nor too low.
- Generous Spirit: We define a Generous Spirit as a readiness to give more grace, mercy, and hospitality than is necessary or expected. This posture allows us to see others for who they are, not what they do.
- Integrity: We define Integrity as a wholehearted commitment to doing right by God, ourselves, and others. This wholeheartedness shows itself in consistently choosing honesty, responsibility and ownership in all actions and decisions.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
MLF is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Personnel are chosen based on ability without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation in accordance with federal and state law.
