(Part Time) Resident Services Specialist for Permanent Supportive Housing

Part-Time Resident Services Specialist - 24 hours/week, scheduled shifts are Saturday 11:00 am -7:00 pm, Sunday 1:00 pm -9:00 pm, and Monday 1:00 pm-9:00 pm.

Join Our Team at Housing Catalyst! We're dedicated to transforming communities through affordable housing, fostering a supportive environment where teamwork, compassion, and professional growth thrive. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, with its vibrant arts scene and abundant outdoor activities, we offer comprehensive benefits, wellness programs, and innovative initiatives like reduced work schedules to enhance work-life balance. 

About Working at Housing Catalyst

Our work can only succeed with a strong team of people who are passionate about affordable housing and its positive impact on lives and communities. Our organization cares deeply about the people we serve, and we care about our employees who work hard to support them. As such, we are committed to our employees’ professional development as well as their health and wellness. Housing Catalyst creates a supportive work environment, emphasizing its core values of teamwork, compassion, honesty, accountability, and fun. We provide programs geared toward wellness, mindfulness, and various employee enrichment opportunities. We have an active total worker health committee that encourages work-life balance, mindfulness, and healthy lifestyles with numerous activities throughout the year. Our excellent benefits package includes medical, dental, and life insurance, counseling support through an employee assistance program, paid holidays, and personal time off, as well as retirement benefits.

Housing Catalyst participates annually in a wellness campaign. We are recognized as a Health Links Certified Healthy Workplace™ Leader in the state of Colorado. We periodically offer mindfulness classes and our mindfulness program has even been in the news.

Lastly, Housing Catalyst is piloting an innovative program offering reduced work schedules to eligible employees, fostering engagement and productivity while providing eight hours of paid time off per pay period.

Position Overview

Housing Catalyst is looking for a positive, reliable, and empathetic Resident Services Specialist to work with residents in a supportive housing environment.  In this role, you will engage, redirect, or assist residents who are in need. If you have a desire and work experience with people experiencing homelessness, trauma, addiction, and substance recovery care populations, we would like to talk with you. This position reports to the Permanent Supportive Housing Supervisor.

Hiring rate is $24.15 an hour, including benefits. Salary range is $24.15-$25.10 an hour.

The scheduled shifts for this position are:

Saturday 11:00 am -7:00 pm 

Sunday 1:00 pm -9:00 pm

Monday 1:00 pm-9:00 pm

All Resident Services Specialist are required to be available and attend monthly All Staff meetings the second Wednesday of the month from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM, and weekly Resident Services Team meetings Fridays from 10:30 to 11:30am.

Job Duties

The duties listed below represent the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific duties does not prevent the assignment of work appropriately related to this class.

• Promote a positive and safe resident environment, engage, redirect, or assist residents in need.
• Responsible for business support duties such as tracking and updating shift logs, reporting property maintenance problems, front desk coverage, and other back up tasks.
• Adhere to company policies, procedures, and standards, act with an appropriate sense of urgency and accountability, handle confidential information correctly, and maintain professional boundaries with those contacted during work.
• Plan and organize group activities and educational workshops such as building self-esteem, learning life skills, art, and cooking.
• Conduct new resident orientation for residents.
• Identify and address resident concerns by actively listening and problem-solving.
• Employ effective techniques and best practices working with people in a mental health crisis, trauma, alcohol/drug addiction, and emergencies to stabilize the situation.  
• Monitor, document, and enforce resident and property policies and rules.
• Assist residents in completing forms, documents and using computer-based resources.
• Report any hazardous and emergencies immediately.
• Coordinating the entry of CaseBuddy notes.
• Coordinating the monthly newsletter and calendar.
• Participate in training and educational opportunities for ongoing professional development.
• Maintain regular and prompt attendance in the workplace.
• Might be reassigned in emergencies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Must be able to handle confidential and sensitive information appropriately.
• Comply with policies and procedures.
• Communicate clearly and effectively in day-to-day tasks.
• Establish and maintain effective boundaries and working relationships with those contacted during work, including customers, co-workers, and the general public.

Physical and Mental Standards

The physical and mental standards described here are representative of those that must typically be met by employees to perform the essential functions of this class successfully.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Routinely walk, stand, sit, bend, light lifting, talk, hear, see, and demonstrate manual dexterity.
• You are regularly required to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.

Residency Requirement

Our work at Housing Catalyst is all about community. Therefore, we consider it critical that our team members are part of the community we serve. For that reason, we require that the incumbent be a resident of Larimer or Weld County. In cases where candidates are not currently residing in this area, we accommodate up to a six month timeframe for relocation. Limited exceptions may be made under extenuating circumstances.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Housing Catalyst is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a drug-free workplace. To provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to every applicant and employee, Housing Catalyst bases employment decisions on merit, qualifications, experience, and abilities.