Environmental Assessor

Responsibilities

• Carry out in-home environmental assessments, housing inspections, and home energy audits.
• Create scopes of work for healthy homes (lead hazard reduction, mold/moisture remediation, asthma trigger reduction, IPM, indoor air quality, household injury prevention, Aging in Place), energy efficiency, weatherization, and housing rehabilitation interventions.
• Coordinate and collaborate on comprehensive housing intervention services with GHHI team members, housing service providers, and other partnering agencies.
• Review scopes of work and cost estimates for Maryland Programs for quality control, market rate analysis, and performance improvement purposes.
• Conduct scope of work reviews and quality assurance/quality control reviews virtually for other GHHI sites and projects across the country as assigned.
• Conduct quality assurance/quality control inspections both in-person and virtually and prepare reports on findings.
• Provide information to clients on housing assessment results, property scope of work, risk awareness, prevention techniques, and prevention resources for housing intervention measures identified in the home during the housing assessment.
• Install initial basic safety measures and injury prevention measures to reduce household safety hazards and injury risks in Program properties (where applicable).
• Perform initial safety and healthy homes measure interventions in Program properties where applicable.
• Enter housing assessment, scope of work and client services data in GHHI’s Efforts to Outcomes (ETO) database (or other required data platform) and report data in compliance with standards and regulations and maintain responsibility for project reports.
• Maintain accountability for achieving Program goals and provide recommendations to overcome barriers for service delivery.
• Safeguard consistent implementation of housing intervention program protocols and standards.
• Absolutely adhere to safe work practices and worker safety rules in accordance with all HUD, EPA, DOE, OSHA, MDE, MOSH, and local laws, regulations, and guidelines as well as GHHI policies.
• Offer recommendations and assist with updates to program assessment and intervention protocols and training modules on lead, asthma, and other home-based environmental health issues through regular review of current best practices for Healthy Homes and new or revised contract and grant requirements.
• Participate in GHHI trainings and webinars for internal staff and external partners as assigned.
• Assist in the development and implementation of effective program evaluation.
• Monitor the program’s achievement toward meeting program benchmarks.
• Identify program barriers and develop and implement recommendations to address them.
• Build relationships with housing service providers and community partners to increase Program referrals, build Program partnerships, and recommend additional resources that Program clients can utilize.
• Participate in weekly and other team meetings as appropriate.

Requirements

• Minimum of one year of experience in performing environmental assessments, home energy audits or in a relevant field as a housing inspector required.
• BPI Energy Auditor, Building Analyst and/or Quality Control Inspector certification or ability to meet the requirements and pass the exam.
• Knowledge and professional experience conducting home inspections, cost estimating, preparing scopes of work, or remediating home-based environmental health issues - particularly lead hazard reduction, healthy homes, weatherization, and/or safety hazards.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• High proficiency in entering housing assessments, client service information, scopes of work and housing intervention cost information in GHHI’s Efforts to Outcomes (ETO) database or other databases.
• Ability to use laptop or field tablet to conduct environmental assessments and other housing inspections.
• Experience with housing rehabilitation, housing construction, or other home-based environmental health hazard remediation in residential homes.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to work both independently and in a team environment with fellow GHHI staff, agency partners, and community organization partners.
• Professional, positive work ethic and desire to make a difference.
• This position will be assigned duties that require the operation of a motor vehicle. The incumbent must maintain ready access to a motor vehicle, possess a valid motor vehicle operator's license in the State of Maryland, and required auto insurance.

Position Specific Requirements

• This position will be assigned duties that require the operation of a motor vehicle. The incumbent must maintain ready access to a motor vehicle, possess a valid motor vehicle operator's license in the State of Maryland, and required auto insurance.
• Travel reimbursement will be provided.
• This is a full-time, exempt position based in our Baltimore, Maryland headquarters.
• The position includes full benefits package and competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• The organization is an equal opportunity employer.