The Downtown Women’s Center seeks a full-time Housing Navigator to provide landlord engagement, landlord retention, landlord mediation, and intensive case management services to individual women and families who are unhoused. The Community Based Housing Department supports women who have experienced trauma to get connected to permanent housing. As an advanced case management position, the Housing Navigator will help identify available housing stock in Los Angeles County and assist women with securing permanent housing. This position is part of an interdisciplinary team and provides innovative services that are at the forefront of homeless services. An ideal candidate practices Trauma-Informed Care and provides case management services with a strengths-based approach, is communicative, flexible, and creative. This position is part of the Housing Department and reports directly to the Housing Navigation Supervisor. 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 

This position does not have supervisory responsibilities. 

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. This position would also require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.

This is a full-time, nonexempt position. Days and hours of work are 8:30am-5pm. 

Travel  

Regular travel throughout Los Angeles County is required in this position. 

$24.03 – 25.48/hour 

Being authorized to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment. DWC does not sponsor employment visas, such as H-1B. 

Downtown Women’s Center provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants and actively seeks candidates who reflect the rich diversity of the communities that we serve. We are committed to a work environment that embraces and promotes individuality and inclusion. We believe that diversity and inclusion of varied perspectives, backgrounds, and life experiences are essential to our organization’s effectiveness, and allow us to serve our clients in the respectful, responsive, and understanding way that they deserve. We define diversity in broad terms to include race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, mental or physical disability, marital status, pregnancy, military and veteran status, medical condition, geography, socio-economic status, and other unique attributes that make us who we are. 

Downtown Women’s Center complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.