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Posting Type: Open to All Applicants Category: Community and Social Services FLSA Exempt/Non-Exempt: Non-Exempt Agency: Health & Human Services Comm Department: Rgn 06-Regulatory Services Job Title: Inspector V Posting Number: 505863 Full Time/Part Time : Full Time Regular/Temporary: Regular Job Location: 5425 POLK ST City: HOUSTON Contact: AccessHR Service Center Telephone: 888-894-4747 Salary Range: $3,520.33 - $5,746.66 Salary Group: B19 Shift: Days (First) Travel: 80% Closing Date: 06/17/2022 Job Description: If you are looking for a place to work where you can establish a career that is filled with purpose, this is the job for you!Social Services Surveyor (Long-term Care Regulation) As part of a collaborative team of public servants, a social services surveyor protects residents’ health and safety by conducting on-site inspections and investigations in Texas long-term care facilities (nursing homes, assisted living facilities, day activities and health services sites) to...

WHO WE ARE Avenue is an award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to building affordable homes and strengthening communities. We are a values-led organization with a culture of appreciation. Our team upholds our values in pursuit of our mission and in our day-to-day actions and interactions. Avenue serves over 7,000 people annually through four main lines of business: affordable housing, family asset building, community initiatives programming, and home repair. We seek passionate, dedicated employees to help us fulfill our mission and positively impact the communities that we serve. Avenue offers competitive compensation and benefits. For more information about what we do, please visit us at  www.avenuecdc.org. ABOUT THE POSITION This Senior Accountant role supports Avenue's mission by working directly with the Controller and program personnel to ensure accounting processes are functioning accurately and accurate monthly financial reports are delivered on a...

WHO WE ARE Avenue is an award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to building affordable homes and strengthening communities. We are a values-led organization with a culture of appreciation. Our team upholds our values in pursuit of our mission and in our day-to-day actions and interactions. Avenue serves over 7,000 people annually through four main lines of business: affordable housing, family asset building, community initiatives programming, and home repair. We seek passionate, dedicated employees to help us fulfill our mission and positively impact the communities that we serve. Avenue offers competitive compensation and benefits. For more information about what we do, please visit us at  www.avenuecdc.org. ABOUT THE POSITION The  Vice President of Programs and Operations  plays a key role in helping to determine strategies and oversee programs to fulfill Avenue's mission. This position directly oversees Avenue's Asset Building, Community Initiatives, and...

Houston Endowment (“the foundation” or “the Endowment”) seeks an Analytics Manager (the “Analytics Manager”) to support the Learning and Evaluation department in providing accurate and useful data, analysis, and data visualization for programmatic and organizational learning. The Analytics Manager, under the leadership of the Director of Learning and Evaluation, will support work across the foundation in areas of data integrity, data analysis, data visualization, data-informed decision making, and overall organizational data fluency. This is a primarily a front-end role, though successful candidates will feel comfortable across the full stack. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The Analytics Manager’s role includes the following: · Create clear and compelling data visualizations, analytics dashboards, infographics, and data communication products using proprietary and publicly available data sources · Partner with Communications team to develop and share data products with internal and...

Coalition for Environment Equity and Resilience Job Title: Coalition Director Reports to: Coalition Steering Committee Classification: Full Time (40 hours/week) About CEER In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, local organizations and leaders concerned with the environmental and human impacts of the storm came together to identify a set of priorities for the Gulf Region. These priorities, focused on raising awareness of the connection between pollution, place and public health, evolved into the CEER 8 point plan.  Over the past 3 years, CEER has \become a collaborative of 28 organizations committed to advancing efforts to create a region that is equitable, environmentally sustainable and economically strong where residents have the opportunity to live, work, learn, play and free from environmental hazards. We collectively advocate for investments in protecting our communities, cleaning up contamination to air, water and land, and preventing flooding. CEER engages in...

Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) is a rapidly growing fully-remote non-profit organization focused on mobilizing lawyers and advocates in large-scale pro bono programs and issue advocacy campaigns to establish and enforce human rights and equality under the law. We were founded in November 2016 to respond to anticipated threats to human rights and the rule of law, and since then, have brought more than 125,000 lawyers and concerned community members together to fight for human rights and equal justice.  Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) coordinates large scale pro bono programs and issue advocacy efforts to ensure that all levels of government — national, state, and local — protect civil and human rights, and to provide equal justice under the law. We believe not only in the establishment and enforcement of equality under the law, but in the creation of social and economic conditions that lead to true equity. We currently run programs in the following areas: racial justice,...

PROGRAM GOALS: PAIR’s Global Scholars Program is a community-based mentoring and case management program aimed at increasing graduation rates and post-secondary success for 11 th and 12 th grade refugee students in the greater Houston area. Students in this program are assigned an adult mentor and work with PAIR staff to receive individualized support in the students’ pursuit of high school graduation, career exploration, and preparation for post-secondary success. With the addition of this position, the program will also be serving refugee students in their Freshmen year of college. This program will provide the pilot cohort with resources, referrals, and monthly workshops to support them in college persistence in person at local Houston colleges as well as remotely for those attending college out of the city. POSITION DETAILS: The Program Coordinator (PC) collaborates with PAIR staff and volunteer mentors to plan, implement, and evaluate an educational program for...

The Texas Public Interest Research Group (TexPIRG) is seeking a new advocate to help run our public interest and consumer campaigns in Texas.  About TexPIRG TexPIRG’s mission is to champion the public interest—to raise our voices on behalf of the public when decisions are being made that affect our health, our safety and our rights as consumers and citizens. The problems we address aren’t progressive or conservative, they’re just problems that our country shouldn’t tolerate in an age of great abundance and technological progress. And these problems affect all of us, whether we live in a blue state, red state or purple state. To solve them, we need to find common ground around commonsense ideas. Over the past 50 years, TexPIRG has won consistent improvements in the lives of Texas’ public. In just the last few years, we have convinced Austin’s voters to approve a first-of-its-kind $7 billion investment in public transit; gotten CapMetro, the Austin transit agency, to...

Friends For Life is a progressive animal shelter in Houston, Texas following the No Kill model. We are situated in our own LEED-certified facility. Saving lives since 2002, we have earned a solid reputation as a leader in the Houston shelter community. We have an amazing team doing remarkable work. We are currently seeking a full-time Animal Care Specialist to join our team. Your Work This position is responsible for the general care and feeding of animals in the shelter and offsite locations. Daily activities include twice daily feedings, cleaning and disinfecting of kennels and litter boxes and cleaning of the general shelter environment. Other tasks include providing enrichment to animals, walking dogs, socializing cats, doing laundry, restocking of food and supplies, one on one training of volunteers, monitoring the animals’ well-being and working closely with the Wellness and Behavior teams to identify any potential medical or behavior issues. The job is physically...

Friends For Life (FFL) is seeking an energetic, highly organized animal lover to help coordinate our foster care program. This key role involves some handling of the cats and dogs in our program but also deals heavily with requests from the public, requires regular engagement with our foster caregivers and is highly administrative. This role reports to the Animal Care Manager. Primary Duties and Responsibilities Foster Engagement and Recruitment Familiarize new fosters with the organization and how fostering works; conduct foster orientations Match fosters with animals based on behavior, foster experience and environment Help expand the bottle-baby foster network by connecting potential fosters with the Neo-nate Care Team for training Facilitate effective communication between fosters and the Wellness, Behavior and Adoptions Departments so that they understand our process and know what to expect and the animals get what they need Maintain good relationships...

Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights  invites applications for the full-time position of Staff Attorney to be based in Houston. This position is a unique opportunity for an attorney to join a passionate team, made up of social workers, attorneys, and administrative staff, to engage in interdisciplinary written and oral advocacy on behalf of children in immigration removal proceedings. Young Center is appointed as independent Child Advocate for unaccompanied and separated immigrant children and advocates for their best interests with respect to their custody, conditions of release, and their immigration proceedings. Young Center does not directly represent children in immigration matters but works closely with the legal service providers who may represent the children. The Staff Attorney will help recruit, train, and supervise bilingual and bicultural volunteer Child Advocates—teachers, law students, social workers, community members—who will work one-on-one with children....

Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights  invites applications for a Case Support Associate (CSA) position to be based in Houston, Texas. The Case Support Associate will provide administrative support to Young Center cases that involve vulnerable, unaccompanied and separated immigrant children, including children who U.S. immigration authorities separated from their family. In collaboration with the Manager and Child Advocate Supervisors, this position monitors all requests for Child Advocates and administratively supports all cases through closure. ABOUT THE YOUNG CENTER Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights is a national organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights and best interests – safety and well-being – of unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States. The immediate focus of the Young Center’s Child Advocate Program is to serve as Child Advocate for unaccompanied and separated immigrant children pursuant to the 2008 Trafficking...

The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights  invites applications for the position of Social Worker to be based in Houston. The Social Worker will supervise volunteers appointed as independent Child Advocate for unaccompanied and separated immigrant children and will also serve as direct Child Advocate for particularly complex cases. In addition, the Social Worker will provide internal case consultation and case support on matters involving child welfare, child development, and trauma for colleagues in the Houston office. About the Young Center: The Young Center is dedicated to promoting the best interests—safety and well-being—of unaccompanied and separated immigrant children in the United States. The immediate focus of the Young Center’s work is to serve as Child Advocate (guardian ad litem for children in immigration proceedings) for unaccompanied and separated children pursuant to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and the 2013 Violence Against...

Arnold Ventures is a philanthropy whose core objective is to maximize opportunity and minimize injustice. We are dedicated to tackling some of the most pressing problems in the United States. We invest in sustainable change, building it from the ground up based on research, deep thinking, and a strong foundation of evidence. We drive public conversation, craft policy, and inspire action through education and advocacy. Position Overview Arnold Ventures’ Evidence-Based Policy initiative seeks to increase the effectiveness of social spending through the use of rigorous evidence about “what works.” Our efforts focus specifically on (i) funding rigorous research aimed at increasing the number of social programs with credible evidence of sizable effects on education, earnings, violence prevention, and other important outcomes; and (ii) advancing the widespread adoption of such programs to improve people’s lives on a large scale. Based in Arnold Ventures’ Houston, Texas office...

Join our community of intercultural advisors – a dynamic team dedicated to empowering people to become globally engaged citizens and delivering meaningful intercultural experiences that provide the knowledge and skills needed to help create a more just and peaceful world. The AFS Global STEM Changemaker Academies program in Houston, Texas is sponsored by bp and brings diverse young people between the ages of 15 to 17.5 from around the world to the University of Houston campus. For approximately 4 weeks, participants will engage in STEM thematic study, sustainability-focused activities, and intercultural learning. Participants for the Houston Academy are expected from Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Oman, and South Africa. The Program Counselor (PC) lives in the dorm and interacts with the participants from July 4, 2022 to August 1, 2022 . Due to its live-in nature, the PC position requires a willingness to be called into service...

Who we are The Institute for Disaster Resilient Texas, located at the Galveston campus, works to facilitate and deliver critical research on disaster risk reduction, provide data analytics and decision-making tools, and generate evidence-based solutions that help Texas communities become more resilient over the longer term. To learn more, visit https://idrt.tamug.edu What we want The Institute for Disaster Resilient Texas is seeking a Data Scientist who will be responsible for the development of complex statistical modeling to abstract problems and discovering insights through the use of statistical, algorithmic, mathematical optimization and visualization techniques. Developing and improving upon statistical analysis and predictive models to support the institute’s critical business process and initiatives including forecasting short and long-term trends. We seek to hire a candidate who will support our commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability...

About the Organization  Unemployed Workers United (UWU) works in multiple states in the Southeast and Southwest to respond to our current economic and health crisis with solutions that will allow all of us to thrive—anchored by five partnered national progressive organizations: People’s Action, United for Respect, Mijente, the National Black Worker Center, and Working Families Party. Our focus is to organize with local grassroots organizations to engage unemployed, underemployed and workers facing precarious employment in building power to change their living conditions in their cities and change the working conditions in their workplaces. About the Position   Field Organizer position will be based in Harris County, TX. Our ideal candidate has a strong commitment to racial, social, economic, and gender justice. Is goal-driven, detail-oriented, problem-solver, independent, innovative with political action by and for working people. They have strong written, verbal, and...

American Humane is seeking an experienced Major Gifts Officer to help support American Humane major gifts programs and fundraising initiatives. This position will be fully remote, with preference given to candidates who live in California or Texas. American Humane is committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. As we seek to fill this position, we highly encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. For more than 100 years American Humane has been first in promoting the welfare and safety of animals and strengthening the bond between animals and people. We are first to serve, wherever animals are in need of rescue, shelter, protection or security. Through our innovative leadership initiatives – from our “No Animals Were Harmed®” program in Hollywood to broad-based farm and conservation animal welfare certifications, to rapid response rescue and care across the country – American Humane sets the gold standard as the most visionary and...