2736-Porter

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• Applications Open: June 26, 2025
• Applications Close: No earlier than July 11, 2025 at 11:59pm
• Salary range for 2736 position: $66,248 to $80,470
• Recruitment ID: TEX-2736-153753

Are you passionate about Juvenile Justice, Public Safety, and the Community we serve? Are you a dedicated professional who wants to maximize their impact in the lives of some of San Francisco's most marginalized youth? If so, we encourage you to take advantage of this unique opportunity to join a team that is devoted to re-imagining Juvenile Justice, committed to racial equity, and focused on ensuring long-term public safety through the development, enrichment, and accountability of young people we serve throughout San Francisco. Click here to read more about the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department (JPD).

The San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department's mission is to serve the needs of youth and families who are brought to our attention with care and compassion. We engage fiscally sound and culturally competent strategies that promote the best interests of the youth, and provide victims with opportunities for restoration.

Our equity-centered goals are to:

• Reimagine how the City addresses juvenile crime, from referral through reentry, in collaboration with the community and our system partners, emphasizing research and evidence-based practices, and sustainably addressing pervasive racial disparities throughout the system.
• Advance a Whole Family Engagement strategy that places racial equity at its center to ensure that all youth have equal access to successful outcomes, and that advances youth-and family-centered case plans and goal development, with the supports and resources necessary to help justice-involved youth thrive.
• Bolster equitable leadership development opportunities for BIPOC staff; implement change that meaningfully improves the workplace experience of BIPOC staff; enact our organizational belief of redemption and helping people to succeed.

Role description

Under supervision, Porters perform a variety of routine manual tasks in cleaning floors, hallways, stairs, walls, furniture and equipment in a large institution; transports food, utensils, equipment and supplies between locations; and performs related duties as required. Essential functions include but are not limited to:

1. Sweeping and wet-mopping the floors in halls, living spaces, treatment rooms, stairways and other areas throughout an institution.

2. Scrubbing and waxing floors with the aid of electric scrubbing and buffing equipment.

3. Emptying waste baskets.

4. Washing and cleaning bathroom fixtures and replenishes paper towels, toilet tissue, soap, light bulbs, etc., as needed.

5. Dusts, cleans and washes all furniture, equipment, walls and woodwork throughout an institution.

6. Gathers soiled linen on the various assigned wards and loads into the laundry chute; sterilizes mattresses, pillows, bed linens, etc.

7. Transports food and utensils by pushing a food guerney from the kitchen to the various wards and return to kitchen; moves furniture, equipment and other items about an institution as required and may carry ice to various wards; assists in loading and unloading trucks; uncrates and assembles furniture and equipment.

8. Upon the discharge of a client, may be assigned to the complete discharge cleaning function which includes but is not limited to the dusting and cleaning of patient rooms, floors, walls, bathrooms, furniture and light fixtures, and the changing of the patients bed.

9. May occasionally have very limited responsibility for the checking and storing of a small variety of supplies, such as dirty and clean linen, office supplies, printed forms, etc.

10. May occasionally wash and clean window glass and electric fixtures from ladders or scaffolds from ground level or interior heights.

How to qualify

1. Six (6) months (1040 hours) verifiable paid full-time custodial or janitorial experience at a commercial building (such as an office building, warehouse, retail or wholesale store), or non-profit agency or a commercial facility (such as a university, hospital stadium, auditorium, hotel/motel, etc.);

OR

1. Certificate of completion of a Custodial Training Program equivalent to those certified by the City and County of San Francisco Human Services Agency;

OR

1. Verification of current enrollment in a custodial training course equivalent to those certified by the City and County of San Francisco Human Services Agency at the time of application. Candidates who are enrolled in a custodial training course at the time of application must submit verification of having completed the course (e.g., a copy of their certificate), prior to appointment. Candidates will remain under waiver until such time that verification is provided.

What else should I know?

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.