We provide Freedom from the past and Hope for the future for addicted, broken, homeless men, women and children and for vulnerable urban youth in our community. We do this in the name of Jesus Christ.

As an employee of the Mission, you are helping to provide hope to our community. We offer a variety of benefits including vacation, sick leave and retirement.

The YUGM observes the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Easter (if it falls on your workday), Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.

All applications for employment require an agreement with our Statement of Faith.

As a condition of hire, all employees of the Yakima Union Gospel Mission must submit to a background check. Please review our background check policy before applying: Our Background Check Standards.

 

Current Openings:

There are no openings at this time.

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Benefits of Employment at the Union Gospel Mission

Health Insurance

Medical insurance benefits are provided for all Regular full-time employees.  We offer two plans: a Health Savings Account Plan with an annual deductible of $2,500 which the Mission helps contribute to the employee account; or a traditional Innova Medical Plan with a $1,000 annual deductible with a $30 co-pay on doctor visits. 

Life Insurance

Regular full-time employees working 30 hours or more a week are covered with life insurance.  The benefit amount at this time is $15,000.  

Retirement Plan

403 (b) Retirement Plan - The YUGM will match up to 2% of an eligible employee’s monthly gross wages to the employee’s retirement account.  Participants must contribute to the fund in order to receive the YUGM matching funds. 

Vacation

Years of Service Vacation Days Earned
Regular full-time employees earn the following days of vacation:
After 1 year anniversary – 5 days
After 2nd year anniversary – 10 days
After 5th year anniversary – 15 days
After 10th year anniversary – 18 days
After 20th year anniversary – 20 days 

Sick Leave

Regular full-time staff becomes eligible for paid sick leave after ninety (90) days of continuous employment.  Sick leave accumulates, retroactive to the date of hire, at a rate of 5/6 of a day per month.  Sick leave can accrue to a maximum of (30) days, and does not accrue during periods of unemployment, unpaid leave-of-absence or layoffs.

Holidays

The YUGM observes the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Easter (if it falls on your workday), Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.

Statement of Faith

• We believe only the Bible to be the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God.
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons:  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• We believe that man was created in the image of God, holy and innocent; that of his own choice he sinned and as a result brought death upon all humanity.
• We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His Ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.  
• We believe that we are saved by grace through faith, apart from works; that the person who repents and personally accepts the atoning work of Christ on the Cross becomes a child of God and is made a new creature through regeneration by the Holy Spirit. 
  We believe the Holy Spirit unites all true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and that together they form one body, the Church.
• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life of obedience and given gifts for service.
• We believe in the resurrection of the saved and the lost, the saved to the resurrection of life and the lost to the resurrection of damnation.

Our Background Check Standards

Yakima’s Union Gospel Mission (“YUGM”) will conduct background checks in compliance with the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and all other applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Applicants and employees may request and receive a copy of requested "investigative consumer reports."  The YUGM will follow FCRA requirements, other applicable statutes, and YUGM procedures for providing information and reports, making decisions, and responding to applicants and employees regarding potentially adverse actions to an investigative report.

An applicant’s criminal background history will not automatically disqualify an applicant from employment at the Mission; however the nature of, number of and recency of the conviction(s), as well as the nature of the job in which the applicant is applying for will be taken into account during the candidate selection process.

The YUGM may conduct criminal background checks on all employees yearly.  Any employee who, during his/her time of employment at the Mission, has been convicted of a crime may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.