Housing Services Specialist

Summary:

Your passion for helping individuals achieve stable housing and access critical community resources will make you an excellent fit for our Housing Services Specialist role. You are self-motivated, organized, and driven by meaningful outcomes, allowing you to effectively balance multiple responsibilities. In this role, you will coordinate high-quality, compliant services for clients while building and maintaining strong partnerships throughout the community. We are Ogden Weber Community Action Partnership (OWCAP) , and we are searching for a Housing Services Specialist to lead our housing education efforts within the community.

What you’ll need to be our Housing Services Specialist:

• A risk-taking, socially poised, and motivating team builder
• A problem solver who likes change and innovation while controlling the big picture
• A casual, uninhibited, and persuasive extravert with a tendency for informality

• Bachelor’s Degree in social work, public relations, or related field
• Mediation Certification preferred
• Minimum of three years of negotiations, crisis management, social services, and/or housing background preferred
• Experience in Microsoft Office

Why you’ll love working with us:

• Status – Full-time, non-exempt
• Engaging, meaningful work that makes a difference in our local communities
• Excellent leadership & work culture that values & recognizes its employees
• Starting Pay - $25.84

What you’ll do as the Housing Services Specialist:  

• Report to and work with the Community Support Manager to implement landlord-tenant mediation services, tenant and landlord education, legal referrals, and direct case management.
• Develop partnerships to maintain current information on resources for renters’ rental assistance, legal aid, and mediation strategies. Educate and refer tenants and landlords to these resources as appropriate.
• Develop partnerships to maintain current information on housing resources. Educate and refer tenants and landlords to these resources as appropriate.
• Maintain current knowledge of landlord and tenant rights and responsibilities, including eviction law
• Coordinate and market housing and mediation services within the local community.
• Assist clients in the development of mediation agreement/repayment plans as needed.
• Provide workshops to educate clients to become aware of the cause-and-effect relationship between their circumstances (social and financial) and their choices (behavior).
• Provide case management and goal-setting opportunities to participants.
• Assess social and financial barriers to determine appropriate interventions and ensure clients have access to all available direct-client services.
• Ensure housing grant timelines are met and provide department reports.
• Monitor grant budgets in collaboration with Community Support Manager.

Who we are:

Ogden Weber Community Action Partnership

Thank you for considering an opportunity at Ogden Weber Community Action Partnership (OWCAP). Our mission is to elevate individuals, families, and communities of Weber County by improving self-sufficiency through services and collaboration. Our programs include Head Start/ Early Head Start, Mental Health Support, Housing Assistance, Employment Assistance, Financial Literacy & Asset Management, VITA, Adult High School Diploma and GED Scholarships, On-Site Weber School District (WSD) Adult Education Classes, On-site WSD ESL Classes, and Communities that Care – Roy.

Ogden Weber Community Action Partnership is a very visible and vocal advocate for serving the needs of the community. We are excited to review your application and hope your talents and abilities will help us all achieve our goal of providing exceptional programs and services to those in need.