$31/hour
664 Noe St, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA
THE JOB: This position is a fully remote, part-time, 25 hour per-week opportunity, paying $31 per hour. You must be located in California. The required hours of the job are Monday thru Friday from 11am to 4pm, pacific time. You must be an extremely dependable person. After a paid training program that we provide, you will be answering hotline calls on our various LGBTQ hotlines as well as online chat conversations. You will be speaking to young people, seniors and everyone in between. You will provide peer-support to those people struggling with issues related to sexual orientation and/or gender identity/expression. This can include coming out concerns, family acceptance, relationship issues, safer-sex information and more. We do NOT give advice, but rather help callers focus on their strong feelings, and ask appropriate questions to help them do so. YOU: Because this is a peer-support position, our callers define peer as being a member of the LGBTQ community, so you must be a member of this community too. Extensive knowledge and demonstrated commitment to our community is required. Strong communication skills, and the ability to interface with many types of personalities and individual needs are a necessity. Although we are not specifically a suicide-prevention hotline, we do receive calls from people who are in crisis or may be feeling suicidal. Most of our callers are not. This position will report to the President of the organization. NEXT: If you are interested in this position, please go to: www.lgbthotline.org/careers-hotlineoperator Cover letter explaining in detail why you are interested in this position and why you feel you would be an ideal candidate. Your resume. Your availability. Due to the large response we anticipate, we regret that we can only respond to those candidates of interest.