Wellness Program Specialist
Job Summary
Job Description
World Relief Quad Cities is seeking a full-time Wellness Program Specialist to assist clients resettled in the Quad Cities. The role involves providing culturally and linguistically appropriate support through interpretation for health services, community outreach, and referrals. Responsibilities include coordinating wellness groups, conducting refugee health screenings, and documenting client notes. The ideal candidate will have a personal Christian faith, a commitment to World Relief's mission, and experience working with refugees and immigrants. Strong English communication skills are required, and fluency in a second language is preferred. The position also requires the ability to drive World Relief vehicles.
Must have:
- Mature and personal Christian faith
- Strong English communication skills
- Ability to drive World Relief vehicles, drivers license and clean driving record
- Commitment to World Relief's mission, vision, and values
Good to have:
- Experience working with refugees and immigrants
- Second language fluency (Swahili, Dari, Pashto, Zo Chin, Hakka Chin, etc.)
- Technical skills in Excel, Google Forms, and databases
- Oral and written communication skills for direct client services
- Interpersonal skills for challenging conversations
- Organizational skills for time management and reporting
- Ability to set and keep boundaries and confidentiality (HIPPA)
- Ability to communicate through interpretation
Perks:
- Competitive benefits package
- Employee discount program
4 skills required
Job Details
Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten? Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.
If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.
ORGANIZATION SUMMARY
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.
Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.
This position is reliant upon funding and may be subject to modification or termination based on resource availability.
POSITION SUMMARY:
World Relief Quad Cities is seeking qualified applicants for a full time Wellness Program Specialist WRQC assist clients resettled in the Quad Cities. The Program Specialist will provide culturally and linguistically appropriate support to clients through interpretation for World Relief Wellness Program health services, community outreach, and referrals/education as needed. The specialist will support wellness group coordination and interpretation, complete refugee health screeners with client populations, and assist with other tasks for the program as needed.
- Coordinate with clients utilizing interpretation/translation in clients preferred language
- Document client notes in database accurately and efficiently
- Make referrals to WRQC Refugee Wellness Program or other support services as needed
- Meet with Wellness Manager biweekly to review goals and outcomes
- Serve as an interpreter and/or translator of documents as needed
- Complete wellness program evaluations with active clients
- Provide support to other wellness program initiatives as assigned
- Mature and personal Christian faith
- Committed to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief
- Desire to serve and empower the Church to impact vulnerable communities
- Able to affirm and/or acknowledge World Reliefs Core Beliefs, Statement of Faith, Christian Identity and National Evangelicals For the Health of The Nation document
- Experience working with refugees and immigrants in some capacity preferred
- Strong English communication skills required
- Second language fluency preferred (Swahili, Dari, Pashto, Zo Chin, Hakka Chin, etc)
- Desire to work and assist immigrants and refugees in local community
- Ability to drive World Relief vehicles, drivers license and clean driving record
- Technical skills utilizing Excel, Google Forms, and other databases systems that are appropriate
- Communication skills (oral and written) to provide direct services to refugee and immigrant clients
- Interpersonal skills to navigate challenging conversations
- Organizational skills related to time management, meeting deadlines, and reporting practices
- Ability to set and keep boundaries and confidentiality to comply with HIPPA
- Ability to communicate through interpretation
$19 - $19.50 an hour
World Relief offers a competitive benefits package and employee discount program for full-time and part-time employees.
World Relief is honored to be recognized with the Gold-level Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation for exceeding the core components of our well-being program including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, and whole person health.
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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
For World Relief staff, strong commitment to the mission, vision, and values of World Relief is essential, and Christian faith is a prerequisite for employment, based upon United States federal guidelines provided in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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