Position Title: Custodian
Employee Type: Regular
Supervisor Title: Center Director or Manager of Facilities
Division: U.S. Programs & Advocacy

Staff whose work requires or potentially could require any in-person interaction with Save the Children colleagues, partners, or beneficiaries must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless otherwise required by law. Save the Children complies with federal, state, and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.

Summary
Custodians are responsible for providing safe and healthy facilities, which meet all local, state and federal regulations. You will provide cleaning, maintenance and repairs for our facilities in situations where professional licensure is not required. This position reports directly to the Center Director or Manager of Facilities. This position may be re-assigned to various classrooms/centers as deemed necessary for program operations.

As a front line representative of Save the Children, you are required to ensure the safety and security of children and families that you come in contact with and adhere to the agency’s values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity.

As a Save the Children employee who will come into contact with children on a routine basis, the position is expected to prevent child abuse in every situation by striving, through mental awareness, good practice and training, to minimize risk to children. The position must take positive steps to protect children who may be a subject of concern and report, respond to any instance of child abuse and promote training and awareness around all child-safeguarding obligations.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
• Follow daily, weekly and monthly cleaning schedules including, but not limited to, the classrooms, kitchen, office areas, bathrooms, storage areas, hallways and entrances.
• Ensure that buildings and outlying areas are hazard-free and report safety, sanitation and fire hazards to the supervisor or staff in charge.
• Perform regular safety checks of the facility and grounds to ensure a safe environment.
• Maintain precautions and prevent contamination to protect personal health and safety as well as the health and safety of children, families and staff.
• Replenish items needed in bathrooms and classrooms; sanitize required areas and empty trash containers.
• Maintain inventory of custodial supplies and other items as directed by the supervisor.
• Perform routine maintenance such as replacing light bulbs and maintaining equipment.
• Maintain supply inventory and MSDS record keeping.
• Collect information and participate in planning for upgrading and making minor repairs of facilities.
• Comply with federal, state and local safety and building code requirements related to Head Start/Early Head Start facilities, including OSHA, MSDS, chemical inventory and other pertinent guidance and training.
• May perform minor plumbing, painting, carpentry, some electrical repairs and general repair work in assigned facilities where a professional license is not required and it is appropriate and assigned.
• May preform or facilitate snow removal, sweeping, mowing raking, tree and shrub trimming and parking lot clearing as appropriate and assigned.
• Maintain confidentiality concerning children, families and staff in accordance with policies and procedures and positive cooperative relationships with co-workers, children, families and the public.
• Protect the safety of children by implementing active supervision techniques to ensure no child is left alone or unsupervised at any time.
• Must have the ability to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications
• Minimum of a High School diploma or G.E.D.
• Must be a minimum of 21 years of age.
• Knowledge of basic operations, tools and terminology used in building maintenance and repair work.
• Ability to operate light trucks, equipment for minor construction and standard cleaning appliances, such as vacuum cleaners, rug shampoo machines, etc.
• Ability to follow oral and written directions and take initiative.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging

Physical Requirements related to essential functions: Ability to perform medium to heavy physical work exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently and up to 5-10 pounds constantly, performing such activities as sitting, crawling, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting and grasping. This also includes some duties that require repetitive action and motion skills, keyboarding and computer use.

Clear pre-employment background check requirements, including local, state, and national criminal records check, sex offender registries, employment, and education verifications (including child abuse registry check if required by state regulations) and pass all state and local health requirements required post job offer and prior to employment.

This position may require the incumbent to operate a motor vehicle to fulfill certain essential functions of the job. The incumbent should maintain a valid driver’s license and remain in compliance with any Save the Children policies pertaining to the safe operation of motor vehicles.

Current and former Head Start/Early Head Start parents will receive preference for employment vacancies for which they are qualified.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, pet insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.