Tenant Rights Organizer

Responsibilities

• Conduct tenant outreach in SRO buildings and provide educational materials to individuals and families
• Perform intake on and provide housing counseling to low-income tenants (including monolingual. Spanish-speaking) by assessing housing problems, answering questions, and providing relevant information.
• Advocate for SRO families and individuals by coordinating with outside agencies in regard to code enforcement and general eviction prevention support in an effort to help tenants achieve housing stability.
• Ensure information regarding a client's housing situation is updated in the database in a timely manner, and all supporting documents are filed in accordance with DSCS policies and procedures.
• Provide warm referrals to other programs for financial assistance, counseling, or other supportive services based on the tenants'/clients' individual needs.
• Cookordinate and facilitate leadership development opportunities, educational KYR's workshops, outreach and preventive programming in SRO hotels.
• Help plan and ensure tenant participation at weekly and monthly meetings, legal clinics, community events, mobilizations, or other activities by conducting outreach and timely follow-up.
• Participate in advocacy and organizing campaigns related to the needs of SRO families, including organizing tenants to choose winnable goals, strategize to win concrete victories, and be spokespersons for SRO issues.
• Work with other Mission Action staff to coordinate MSROC tenant input and support on other community related issues such as land use, civic engagement, immigrant rights, and economic justice
• Attend weekly/monthly meetings with supervisors to report on outreach, problem-solve, and plan upcoming work.

Qualifications

• Commitment to a larger vision for immigrant, housing, and economic justice.
• Ability to interact with a wide range of clients with cultural humility, kindness, and patience.
• Ability to assume responsibility quickly and work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to use good judgment, multitask and meet deadlines.
• Ability to read, understand, and apply language from manuals, policies, technical procedures, and instructions.
• Ideal candidates will have experience working and building trust with low-income immigrant families/individuals, including at least two years' experience as an organizer, tenant rights advocate, and/or paralegal.
• Ability to speak, read, and write in Spanish is preferred.
• Willingness to work some evenings and weekends to design a flexible schedule

Benefits

Compensation: $26-28 per hour commensurate with experience, full time non-exempt. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, flexible spending account, commuter benefits, paid holiday, paid sick leave, generous vacation with Summer Recess and Winter Recess, and 401(K) with employer matching.