HOUSING SPECIALIST

About the Role

The HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) is recruiting for a Housing Specialist to monitor vacancies and contracts that provide HASA consumers placement in Scattered-Sites and Congregate Shelter Housing.

Responsibilities

• Monitor vacancies and assigned contracts that provide HASA consumers placement in Scattered-Sites (SS), and Congregate Shelter Housing (CSH) through various automated tracking mechanisms (i.e., spreadsheets, excel, and access programs).
• Conduct programmatic research on HASA and managed housing facilities and referrals to determine consumer compatibility for SS, CHS, or any other housing options available, by utilizing data collection inclusive of placement indicators, contractor vacancy reports, placement reports and case review.
• Provide technical assistance to vendors, inter- intra-agency staff, case managers, medical and political advocates by imparting information to assist them in attaining agency goals of consumer placement.
• Analyze factors that affect service delivery; reviewing and periodically updating Agency/City policies, procedures, and social service dictates regarding HASA housing requirements; scheduling and facilitating case conferences between vendors, clients and HASA Case Managers.
• Write housing specifications for placement by researching the facilities schematics inclusive of facility location, type of housing offered (long-term vs. temporary), accessibility for physically challenged (elevators vs. walk-ups), and type of residence (whether family or single household), with perspective clients.
• Provide projection of pre-existing apartment/housing conditions that will determine apartment availability received from SS and CSH facilities: attends and conducts facility and apartment unit inspections to confirm facilities analysis on prospective apartment availability utilizing various parameters such as inspection evaluations, contractor repairs completion dates, homelessness factors, and shelter placement mandates.
• Calculate the needs of accepted cases and refer them to supportive social service linkages that will assist in new apartment expenditures (i.e., furniture allowance, grants, utility connection fees, and moving expenses) and calculate housing cost projections for residents based on current cost-of-living trends, family needs, public assistance allowances and guidelines.

Qualifications

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of satisfactory full-time progressively responsible clerical/administrative experience, one year of which must have been in an administrative capacity or supervising staff performing clerical/administrative work of more than moderate difficulty; or
• An associate degree or 60 semester credits from an accredited college and three years of satisfactory full-time progressively responsible clerical/administrative experience including one year of the administrative supervisory experience described above; or
• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a state's department of education or a recognized accrediting organization and four years of satisfactory full-time progressively responsible clerical/administrative experience including one year of the administrative supervisory experience as described above; or
• Education and/or experience equivalent to the above. However, all candidates must possess the one year of administrative or supervisory experience as described above. Education above the high school level may be substituted for the general clerical/administrative experience (but not for the one year of administrative or supervisory experience) at a rate of 30 semester credits from an accredited college for 6 months of experience up to a maximum of 3 years.

Schedule

9am-5pm

Additional Information

• This position is open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.
• As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education's website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.
• New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

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