Housing Case Manager - Bilingual Spanish

About the role

Inspiration Corporation connects people and creates opportunity through access to social services, job training, housing, and food. Housing Case Managers support individuals and families in meeting their goals by assisting them in obtaining and maintaining housing.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate Inspiration Corporation’s Core Values.
• Exhibit professionalism and high standards in all aspects of performance.
• Ensure the efficient and effective provision of housing services with dignity and respect in accordance with the agency’s mission.
• Work with all departments as appropriate to ensure that the needs of the agency’s participants are addressed.
• Participate in department and agency meetings and professional development.
• Work both independently and on a team.
• Travel throughout the City of Chicago to provide case management services.

Requirements

• Spanish language fluency required.
• Experience working with diverse client populations, particularly immigrants and refugees, and/or persons experiencing or transitioning from homelessness, preferred.
• Access to a personal vehicle to be used regularly for home visits and meetings and valid driver’s license and insurance required.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent life experience required; graduate-level studies preferred.
• Two years’ work experience in case management in a non-profit setting with homeless or impoverished populations preferred and/or significant life experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Ability to speak, write, read, and interpret, and translate documents fluently in both English and Spanish.
• Proficiency in Windows operating environments, Microsoft Office required.
• Experience with electronic record-keeping preferred.
• Familiarity with the Chicago Continuum of Care, HUD and municipal and state housing laws preferred.
• Active listening and the ability to communicate professionally both verbally and in writing.

Skills

• None specified.

Benefits

• Not specified.

Pay

• Not specified.

Schedule

• Not specified.