Housing Specialist

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About Us? The instruction says use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). They gave examples but we can use appropriate headings based on content. The posting includes: About Us (organization description), Pay Rate, Benefits, Job Summary And Purpose, Duties And Responsibilities, Essential Ability Acknowledgement (maybe part of responsibilities), ESSENTIAL DUTIES (duplicate), MANDATED REPORTER (maybe a note), Qualifications (Requirements, Education, Experience, Preferred Qualifications). Also there is EEO boilerplate which we should remove. Also remove navigation/legal/EEO etc. Also remove duplicated lines. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include About Us paragraph, Pay Rate, Benefits, Job Summary, Responsibilities (duties), Qualifications (requirements, education, experience, preferred). Possibly also a section for Mandated Reporter? Might be considered part of responsibilities or a note; but it's substantive. Could be included under a section like "Additional Information" but not in the list of allowed headings. The instruction says use headings for those specific examples, but we can also use other headings if needed? It says "use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It suggests those are typical but not exclusive? It says "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely they expect we use those headings when applicable. For About Us we could use

About Us

. For Pay Rate:

Pay

. Benefits:

Benefits

. Job Summary: maybe

Job Summary

or

About the role

. Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

. Qualifications:

Qualifications

. Possibly also

Requirements

but Qualifications covers. We must not repeat the job title as heading. The job title is Housing Specialist; we shouldn't put that as heading. We must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. We must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. We need to preserve all substantive info: About Us paragraph, Pay Rate, Benefits, Job Summary And Purpose, Duties And Responsibilities (list), Essential Ability Acknowledgement (maybe part of responsibilities), ESSENTIAL DUTIES (duplicate), MANDATED REPORTER (maybe a note), Qualifications (Requirements, Education, Experience, Preferred Qualifications). Also note about "Ability to work and deal with difficult..." appears twice; we should deduplicate. We need to format lists with

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  . We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to decide which sections to include: About Us, Pay, Benefits, Job Summary, Responsibilities, Qualifications. Possibly also a section for "Mandated Reporter" but could be part of Responsibilities or Qualifications? It's a requirement: must report abuse. Could be included under Responsibilities as a bullet. But the instruction says preserve all substantive info; we can include it as a bullet under Responsibilities. Similarly, Essential Ability Acknowledgement is about ability to work with difficult clients; that's a requirement; could be under Qualifications or Responsibilities. We'll include under Qualifications as a bullet. We need to avoid duplication: The duties list appears twice (Duties And Responsibilities and ESSENTIAL DUTIES). We'll combine unique items. Let's extract substantive content: About Us: "VOALA Helping Our Most Vulnerable Change Their Life Stories Volunteers of America is a non-profit human services organization committed to serving people in need, strengthening families, and building communities. VOALA provides a variety of social services to Los Angeles area communities such as Head Start programs, Upward Bound college prep programs, veterans’ services, homeless shelters, low-income housing program as well as drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Learn more at www.voala.org." Pay Rate: "$23.53 - $24.77 Per Hour" Benefits: "VOALA offers competitive medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits." Job Summary And Purpose: "The Housing Specialist is responsible for identifying suitable housing options for program participants and their families, and assisting the participants to achieve sustainable and healthy independent living. Part of services team for the program, the Housing Specialist participates in all stages of client service: assessment, services planning, engagement and delivery. Assists program case management, outreach and community engagement as directed." Duties And Responsibilities (list): - Identifies and locates housing options suitable for homeless participants, including referral to VOALA shelters as appropriate; - Creates and maintains a housing database linking tenants to apartments - Communicates with landlords and familiarize them with the VOALA programs and the unique needs of participants - Conducts habitability and lead-based paint inspections of housing options as needed - Works directly (One on One) with landlords on behalf of clients and program - Develops support systems to meet individual client's housing needs; coordinates and facilitates move-in activities, rental negotiations, and service referrals as needed - Facilitates the use of community resources to assist both tenants and landlords in the event of problems leading to potential eviction - As a member of the program case management team, provides information referrals, crisis intervention, and assistance with permanent housing placement for participants - Assists case managers in conducting the comprehensive screenings and assessments to collect functional, environmental, financial, employment, housing, educational, and health information, as appropriate, to develop an Individual Service Plan - Coordinates follow-up services with case management team - Additional duties as assigned Essential Ability Acknowledgement (maybe combine): - Ability to work and deal with difficult, uncooperative, and potentially aggressive clients as VOALA serves the neediest of the needy in our programs, which may include clients with homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse, recently released from incarceration, and other challenges. ESSENTIAL DUTIES (duplicate): - Identifies and locates housing options suitable for homeless program participants. - Creates and maintains a housing database linking tenants to apartments - Communicates with landlords and familiarize them with the program - Works one-on-one with landlords to help clients, and represent program - Develops Support system for clients to achieve and keep permanent housing, involving landlords and services available in the community. - Coordinates efforts with Case Management team, supporting Case Management initiatives for clients served, meets regularly to stay current with client needs - Participates in Community engagement and outreach efforts - Other duties as required and may be subject to change MANDATED REPORTER: - As service providers to the underprivileged and vulnerable in our community, all employees are considered Mandated Reporters, and must report any instance of physical or sexual abuse to proper authorities. Qualifications: Requirements: - Must be able to pass a fingerprint clearance, background check, including criminal history, personal references, employment and education verifications - Ability to perform under circumstances of possible emotional stress and conflicts dealing with difficult, uncooperative, and potentially aggressive clients as VOALA serves the neediest of the needy in our programs which may include clients with homelessness, mental-illness, substance abuse, recently released from incarceration and other challenges. Education: - Bachelor’s Degree in Social Services or related discipline, Or Equivalent combination of education and work experience (four years) Experience: - One year of experience working with veterans, people in recovery and or homelessness individuals Preferred Qualifications: - Bilingual in English and Spanish (written and verbal) - Experience and familiarity using a HMIS (homeless database) We should remove EEO boilerplate at end. Now construct HTML. We'll use

  for each section. Section order: About Us, Pay, Benefits, Job Summary, Responsibilities, Qualifications. Inside Qualifications we can have subheadings? The instruction only mentions using

  for section headings; we could use

  for sub-sections? Not prohibited but better to keep simple: we can include paragraphs and lists. We'll put Requirements, Education, Experience, Preferred Qualifications as

  maybe, but not required. Could just be

  with bold? But we need to preserve info; we can use

  with items and preceding

  labels. Simplify: Under Qualifications section, we can have

  Requirements:

  then
  ... etc. But the instruction says use

  for prose. Using inside

  is okay. We'll avoid extra headings beyond

  for main sections. Let's craft. HTML fragment:

  About Us

  VOALA Helping Our Most Vulnerable Change Their Life Stories Volunteers of America is a non-profit human services organization committed to serving people in need, strengthening families, and building communities. VOALA provides a variety of social services to Los Angeles area communities such as Head Start programs, Upward Bound college prep programs, veterans’ services, homeless shelters, low-income housing program as well as drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Learn more at www.voala.org.

  Pay

  $23.53 - $24.77 Per Hour

  Benefits

  VOALA offers competitive medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.

  Job Summary

  The Housing Specialist is responsible for identifying suitable housing options for program participants and their families, and assisting the participants to achieve sustainable and healthy independent living. Part of services team for the program, the Housing Specialist participates in all stages of client service: assessment, services planning, engagement and delivery. Assists program case management, outreach and community engagement as directed.

  Responsibilities

  • Identifies and locates housing options suitable for homeless participants, including referral to VOALA shelters as appropriate
  • Creates and maintains a housing database linking tenants to apartments
  • Communicates with landlords and familiarizes them with the VOALA programs and the unique needs of participants
  • Conducts habitability and lead-based paint inspections of housing options as needed
  • Works directly (one-on-one) with landlords on behalf of clients and program
  • Develops support systems to meet individual client's housing needs; coordinates and facilitates move-in activities, rental negotiations, and service referrals as needed
  • Facilitates the use of community resources to assist both tenants and landlords in the event of problems leading to potential eviction
  • As a member of the program case management team, provides information referrals, crisis intervention, and assistance with permanent housing placement for participants
  • Assists case managers in conducting comprehensive screenings and assessments to collect functional, environmental, financial, employment, housing, educational, and health information, as appropriate, to develop an Individual Service Plan
  • Coordinates follow-up services with case management team
  • Ability to work and deal with difficult, uncooperative, and potentially aggressive clients as VOALA serves the neediest of the needy in our programs, which may include clients with homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse, recently released from incarceration, and other challenges
  • As service providers to the underprivileged and vulnerable in our community, all employees are considered Mandated Reporters, and must report any instance of physical or sexual abuse to proper authorities
  • Additional duties as assigned

  Qualifications