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Job Description
Job Description
METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING AGENCY
HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION
Position Open : February 28, 2025
Position Closing Date : March 14, 2025
In Office Work
Job Objective
Under the direction of the Director of Rental Assistance, to determine the eligibility of applicants and participants for all programs administered by the Rental Assistance Department; to provide support in various procedures relating to initial eligibility, initial lease-ups, re-examinations, transfers, terminations, and do related work as required.
Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions
- Initiates, schedules and implements process for initial interviews, voucher issuance, initial lease-ups, re-examinations, and terminations;
- Initiates steps necessary to verify income, assets and expenses of applicants and participants;
- Explains policies, procedures and disseminates other rental assistance information to landlords,
- Tenants, and applicants
- Identifies errors in rent calculations and initiates measures to collect rent overpayments from participants.
- Computes subsidy payments and / or total tenant payments (TTP) in accordance to established
- HUD formulas from income data obtained in interviews and investigations.
- Generates contracts, interim changes, re-certifications, form letters, and other client information and / or correspondence.
- Enters client data into the computer software program to document changes in participant status.
- Calculates and / or prorates applicant’s net income, rent, and utility allowances concurrent with the applicant’s acceptance of housing.
- Updates files as necessary;
- Produces and sends required notices;
- Conducts briefings;
- Prepares new files for HCV participants relocating from one unit to another unit.
- As requested, assist in the preparation and analysis of the SEMAP, RIM Review responses, and corrective action plans.
- Refers program participants to services offered by other community-based organizations;
- Coordinates with landlords and participants to facilitate occupancy and resolve landlord tenant processes Request for Tenancy Approval and changes to lease; initiates inspection requests;
- Coordinates the execution of leases and Housing Assistance Payments Contracts;
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required
Behavioral Skills :
Ability to follow and maintain instruction; strong organizational skills; ability to manage time effectively and meet critical deadlines; ability to prepare reports and other written material; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships; ability to be tactful, discreet, and non-judgemental;
Technical Skills :
Knowledge of affordable housing rules and regulations; knowledge of Housing and Urban Development rules and regulations; knowledge of landlord and tenant rights; knowledge of rental and home-ownership principles; ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with applicants, participants, landlords, lenders, other housing providers, and other members of the public; ability to perform mathematical functions accurately.
Physical Skills :
Willingness and mental and physical ability to perform the duties involved in this classification. Ability to perform work with or without an accommodation that requires
sitting, standing, and walking, dexterity of hands and clarity of vision, speech and hearing and powers of observation; other physical duties as required.
Financial Skills : none
Employment Standards
Education and Experience Required
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Behavioral Science or related field plus three (3) years of increasingly responsible experience in affordable housing, property management or related field.
Equipment Used
Automobile, calculator, and computer
Supervision Exercised
None
License Required
Valid Tennessee driver’s license
Must obtain program certification within twelve (12) months of hire date.
Must have knowledge of subsidized housing program guidelines and federal, state and local landlord-tenant laws
Must have great verbal and written communication skills
