Description
FamilyAid is one of America's leading providers of solutions to family homelessness. Our mission is to empower parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build solid foundations for their children's futures.
We prevent family homelessness whenever possible, reduce harm if homelessness can't be avoided by housing families as quickly as possible, mitigate trauma, especially for children, and provide wraparound supports that foster long-term stability.
We provide children and parents with a path to self-sufficiency via two-generation educational programs, housing search and placement support, and connections to vital resources they need to return to their own homes.
Our strategic vision and bold strategies to reduce two-generation homelessness successfully served 5,000 children and parents in Greater Boston last year. New funding powers our plans to serve more families more deeply.
Our supportive, collaborative, diverse workplace of more than 150 professionals is ideal for a skilled, result-oriented professional who is driven to help children and families thrive. FamilyAid has been recognized as a Top Massachusetts Workplace by The Boston Globe and by Charity Navigator as one of the nation's top organizations working to end homelessness.
In late 2024, FamilyAid will open a Family Navigation Center in Newton, MA, a 2-acre, 31,000 s/ft facility that will provide temporary housing, educational services, and other supports that children and parents need to quickly obtain permanent housing and a pathway to long-term success and stability.
Position Summary:
Reporting to a Program Manager, the Housing Placement Specialist provides housing search services to homeless families temporarily living at the Center or those that are precariously housed. The Specialist works collaboratively with each family and their case manager to assess and identify the family’s needs and barriers to safe stable housing. The Specialist conducts successful housing searches pursuant to each family’s rehousing plan, within agency timelines and guidelines.
Additionally, the Specialist ensures that each rehoused family member accesses resources they need for daily living and the longer-term supports that will allow them to maintain housing stability and break the cycle of multigenerational poverty.
Duties & Responsibilities:
The Housing Placement Specialist ensures that families are supported with expert housing placement services that result in their rapid and successful transition to permanent housing. The Specialist, in collaboration with the family’s Case Manager, assesses families' housing barriers and needs and develops and implements a rehousing plan that leverages family strengths and addresses barriers. They will Collect, complete, maintain and analyze client data and other documentation on a timely basis that helps clients to progress in their rehousing plans and meets agency requirements and deadlines and will develop and maintain relationships with property owners, housing authorities, and management companies as resources and/or housing providers for families.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 3+ years professional housing experience required.
- Bilingual Spanish / Haitian Creole preferred.
- Some experience / exposure with subsidized/low-income/tax credits housing.
- Demonstrable professional experience learning and successfully operating within a complex technical professional environment.
- Understanding of the Boston and Metro rental market preferred.
- Strong interest in working with families from diverse social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, using a culturally sensitive, team-oriented, and strength-based approach.
- Strong documentation and organizational skills required.
Work Schedule and Location: Monday-Friday with start and end times to be determined. Some evening hours may be required. The positions offer either Hybrid or fully onsite presence at the West Newton Family Navigation Center or at Shelters.
FamilyAid is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.
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