Homeless Outreach Response Coordinator - Non-Merit

Examples of Duties

• Manage ongoing partnerships to work through barriers, recognize innovative opportunities, provide recommendations to leadership for system-wide decision making.
• Lead the coordination and cooperation of funded outreach and service providers to respond to those living unsheltered in the county.
• Cookout with area service providers, interdepartmental, and state partners to the location of homeless individuals and address abandoned encampments and cleanup of public spaces.
• Coordinate transportation for people who are unsheltered to emergency shelter or other appointments as needed.
• Lead agency/county staff, partners, and coordinate volunteers to conduct an annual, HUD-mandated observational survey known as the Point in Time Count (PIT).
• Drive to homeless sites in rural and urban areas to visit the unhoused population to identify needs, and work to establish a relationship on by name lists.
• Assist with caseloads of homeless individuals and families while working to place them into housing.
• Through visits with individuals experiencing homelessness, identifies new homeless individuals and families and gathers appropriate information to add them to relevant by name lists.
• Regularly visits homeless service provider agencies to build relationships with agency staff and individuals experiencing homelessness seeking services there, in order to effectively pass on necessary communication to homeless individuals and families on by name lists.
• Gather and share best and emerging practices for responding to unsheltered homelessness.
• Community Engagement/Education
• Coordinates quarterly outreach meetings with all county providers that engage in outreach work and engagement with unsheltered individuals.
• Research resources offered locally in order to match homeless individuals and families with appropriate services, agencies, and case management.
• Maintains contacts and positive communication with community members/constituents and business owners regarding unsheltered homelessness.
• Strategic Planning And Data Outcomes
• Reviews and analyzes programmatic outcome data from the county Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
• Prepares reports, as required, works with funded providers to ensure data entry is accurate and timely.
• Will enter client data in HMIS to support the outreach work as needed
• Elevate data trends and make recommendations for a strategic response to unsheltered homelessness.
• Attends weekly housing group meetings to report on progress and be assigned new tasks, as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Sociology, Social Work or a related field, plus two years' professional experience in working with unsheltered persons or within the homeless continuum.
• Or Six years of direct experience working with unsheltered persons or within the homeless continuum.