What are the responsibilities and job description for the MRAP Housing Specialist - Albany County position at Ibero American Action League?
Description
Under the supervision of the MRAP Housing Coordinator, the Housing Specialist is responsible for ensuring families relocated by MRAP into housing continue to have secure safe and sanitary housing. The MRAP Housing Specialist will work with the MRAP Housing Coordinator, and Landlords to ensure families have secure housing, and meet their needs. The individual must display initiative, creativity, organization, and computer skills.
Requirements
Essential Functions:
The individual must be resourceful and able to display initiative and understanding of management systems and interpersonal relations. The employee must set priorities for the tasks to be accomplished to ensure compliance with contract provisions. This individual assesses situations to determine the best course of action to follow the established policies and procedures as guidelines.
Position Qualifications
Competency Statement(s)
Physical Demands: The position does require occasional standing, squatting, and lifting of up to approximately 20 lbs.
Ibero American Action League is committed to the policy of equal employment opportunity. This policy expressly prohibits discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, domestic violence victim status, veteran status, or status as a member of any other protected group or activity.
Under the supervision of the MRAP Housing Coordinator, the Housing Specialist is responsible for ensuring families relocated by MRAP into housing continue to have secure safe and sanitary housing. The MRAP Housing Specialist will work with the MRAP Housing Coordinator, and Landlords to ensure families have secure housing, and meet their needs. The individual must display initiative, creativity, organization, and computer skills.
Requirements
Essential Functions:
- Research and outreach for available apartments in Albany County that may be a potential match for the MRAP program.
- Coordinate apartment inspections with landlords or property management and complete all documents with landlords to secure apartments.
- Review leases provided by landlords and/or property management.
- Develop trusting relationships with the team, landlords, and other external resources used to get apartments ready to move in.
- Ensure utilities are placed in a timely manner before MRAP families are relocated.
- Assist MRAP families who are in the process of graduation to secure and complete applications for permanent housing.
- Coordinate furnishing of secured apartments to fit assigned family’s composition.
- Maintains accurate/updated client files with program-required documentation.
- Ensures accurate data input of services provided on assigned database.
- Participates in the development of proposals, program planning, and new initiatives.
- Monitors housing to ensure compliance with contract provisions.
- Participates in community activities as assigned.
- Follow up on housing issues, concerns, and disputes MRAP families may have.
- Oversee outreach strategy development; participate or lead where appropriate. Must have a strong willingness to engage in neighborhoods - getting out of the office to meet people and connect to available opportunities.
- Must be available to work outside regularly scheduled work hours as needed.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor or delegates.
The individual must be resourceful and able to display initiative and understanding of management systems and interpersonal relations. The employee must set priorities for the tasks to be accomplished to ensure compliance with contract provisions. This individual assesses situations to determine the best course of action to follow the established policies and procedures as guidelines.
Position Qualifications
Competency Statement(s)
- Analytical Skills - Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.
- Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
- Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company procedures.
- Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
- Diversity Oriented - Ability to work effectively with people regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or job type.
- Ethical - Ability to demonstrate professionalism conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
- Leadership- Ability to Motivate, influence, and support others to accomplish team and organizational goals.
- Organizational Skills-Ability to create and maintain good organization of files, reports, and other documents that require tracking.
- Training & Presentation Skills.
- Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
- Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
- Communication, Written - Ability to communicate in writing clearly and concisely.
- High School diploma/GED required.
- Experience in Human Services.
- Experience in housing preferred, but not required.
- Experience working with the migrant population is preferred but not required.
- Bilingual in English and Spanish is required.
Physical Demands: The position does require occasional standing, squatting, and lifting of up to approximately 20 lbs.
Ibero American Action League is committed to the policy of equal employment opportunity. This policy expressly prohibits discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, domestic violence victim status, veteran status, or status as a member of any other protected group or activity.
