Position Summary

Hope House Colorado (HHC) is hiring a Lead Residential Advisor (LRA). As the LRA, you will work with the Housing Support Program Manager (HSPM), the day shift Lead Residential Advisor, Residential Advisors, and the Hope House Colorado Program staff to provide encouragement and support for up to eight young mothers and their children living in the Hope House group residence, with the focus of building relationship while helping residents to become self-sufficient. The LRA is a part of the Residential Decision-Making team and in addition to supporting teen moms in the residential program, you will assist the HSPM in administrative duties, including training and coaching new Residential Advisors. The existing schedule is 8 hours per day Tuesday–Friday from 1pm-9pm and Saturday 8:30a-4p. The Lead RA will be on call for the residence every other week to support staff with emergencies and ensure that the house is always staffed. This role may also require you to work some additional evenings, scheduled holidays, weekends and overnights to ensure house coverage when necessary.

What you’ll be doing

Residential

• Collaborate with the dayshift Lead Residential Advisor to manage each resident's progress in the Residential Program to ensure growth in both economic and personal self sufficiency
• Lead weekly case management and Individual Growth Plan meetings with assigned residents every 6 weeks
• Ensure that Residential Program processes and best practices are being followed by residential staff, contracted staff, volunteers and residents

Administrative

• Manage administrative duties, communicating with residents, and training, mentoring, and communicating with Residential Advisors, delegating tasks as needed
• Oversee residential staff schedules and work with contracted staff to ensure all shifts are covered.
• Complete residential expense reports, and monitoring spending to ensure we stay on track with the program budget
• Conducting connections meetings and progress meetings, and collecting and recording data accordingly
• Provide quality training, mentoring, and communication with Residential Advisors, residential volunteers and contract staff and delegating tasks as needed
• Committing to and continually working towards the HHC mission

We want to hear from you if …

• You are a female over age 21 with a valid driver’s license and automobile insurance (Required)
• You are available to work onsite at our Arvada location full-time Monday–Friday or Tuesday - Saturday and be on call for the residence 2 weekends a month (Required)
• You understand human service rules and regulations and have experience working with at-risk populations, adolescent girls, or teen moms (Desired)
• You have excellent communication skills, are highly organized, detail oriented, resourceful, reliable, and appreciate being held accountable (Desired)
• You have good leadership skills, including the ability to lead and mentor others, address issues in a tactful way, and exercise good judgment in a variety of situations (Desired)

Who we are

Hope House Colorado is committed to empowering teen moms, changing the future for two generations! We are a future-thinking organization, striving to be experts in our field. We invest in each employee, providing opportunities to pursue individual passions, gifts and strengths. Our staff is a unified team, pursuing excellence in all we do. We serve with integrity, humility, and respect for one another, in an environment that combines professionalism with fun, humor, and even a little bit of silliness each day!

Salary Range

$43,000-$53,000

Benefits

Employees who are regularly scheduled to work 24 hours per week or more are eligible for the below benefits

• Health Benefits: Employees may elect medical, dental, vision & life insurance plans.
• Simple IRA: Employees may choose to make salary reduction contributions through HHC’s Simple IRA plan and HHC will match the employee’s contribution up to a maximum of 3% of the employee’s annual salary.
• Vacation: Upon hire, employees earn 4.62 hours of vacation per paycheck up to 120 hours (3 weeks) in a year. Accruals are adjusted to increase vacation earned per hours worked based on length of employment with HHC.
• Holidays: HHC observes twelve (12) holidays throughout the year. Salaried employees are paid for these holidays according to the nationally recognized observation day for each holiday. In addition, salaried employees are currently gifted the week of Christmas off, to be scheduled at the discretion of their supervisor.
• Sick Leave: HHC provides eligible employees with Paid Sick and Safe Leave (PSSL) and Public Health Emergency Leave (PHEL) in accordance with the requirements of Colorado's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA).
• Mental Health Days: Employees are given two (2) mental health days per year to use at their discretion.
• Employer Based Childcare: Full-time (40-hours per week or more) Hope House Colorado employees are eligible to enroll their children in the Hope House Colorado Early Learning Center. Exceptions may be considered for part-time staff and part-time childcare needs on a case-by-case basis.
• Hope House Colorado is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program! HHC provides employees with free assistance navigating the PSLF program to submit their federal student loans for forgiveness

Job Application Deadline: 5/31/2025

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $43,000.00 - $53,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• AD&D insurance
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person