Responsibilities:
- Provide support with homeowner application and selection process.
- Provide ongoing support to Habitat homebuyers while navigating a successful transition to homeownership by assisting with the design and administration of meetings, pre-purchase classes, events, and programs.
- Monitor homebuyer hours as they contribute to their building of their home, working in our ReStores, completing homeownership education classes, and other program requirements in accordance with home purchase timeline. Send a monthly review of their contribution to homebuyers.
- Coordinate with the Volunteer and Construction Departments regarding homebuyer volunteer opportunities at active build sites.
- Engage monthly with all homebuyers through mailings, texts, emails, and meetings.
- Collaborate with homebuyers and the Construction Department regarding interior option selections and home tours.
- Organize donations for 'Welcome Home' gifts for new homeowners.
- Conduct community engagement events with the homebuyers throughout the year.
- Coordinate community celebrations after the completion of each new neighborhood to foster a sense of community amongst new homeowners.
- Ensure pre-purchase education meets the standards of various funders in partnership with the Education and Post Purchase teams.
- Build and sustain strong working partnerships with other members of the team and contribute to Habitat's culture of teamwork and collaboration.
- Other duties as assigned by the Homeownership Program Manager.
- Minimum one year of experience supporting clients from diverse backgrounds in a social service or housing setting. Experience can be professional, volunteer or lived.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, effective communication with culturally and linguistically diverse clientele.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and planning skills and the ability to think strategically.
- Commitment to regularly engaging in organization wide diversity, equity, and inclusion work.
- Excel at multi-tasking with various projects and deadlines with an acute attention to detail is necessary.
- Strong commitment to communication and collaboration within the department and with other departments, ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Commitment to working with clients in need of affordable housing and advancing the critical call for affordable homeownership.
- Highly proficient with Microsoft Office, databases, and ability to learn and adapt as the needs of the job and available technology evolves.
- Ability to work in a human-paced, open, team-oriented, business casual office.
- Able to work occasional evenings and weekends to accommodate the meeting needs of homebuyers.
- Experience working with Salesforce or similar CRMs.
- Lived experience navigating housing programs.
- Verbal fluency in Vietnamese, Burmese, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, or Amharic.
- Knowledge of area social services and community resources.
- Experience, either personal or professional, with IDA (Individual Development Accounts) Matched Savings Accounts
- Any qualifying combination of education, certification, and experience demonstrates the ability to perform the position's duties.
OFFICE/HYBRID
- Human-paced, open, team-oriented, business casual office
- This position may be eligible for remote/hybrid work based on responsibilities, performance, and access to essential work-related resources.
- The employee will routinely use standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines
- This is a sedentary role with some filing work, which requires the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets, bend, and stand on a stool as necessary
- This position will have occasional local travel - typically to other Habitat locations.
- 40 hours a week, M-F 8:30am-4:30pm and weeknight/weekend work as necessary
- Minimum $22.84/hour to range midpoint of $27.82/hour. Placement will generally not exceed the midpoint based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity. The full wage range is $22.84/hour to $33.11/hour.
- We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- Health insurance (medical, vision, alternative care, prescription)
- Health reimbursement arrangement (HRA)
- Dental insurance
- Generous paid time off
- 3% matching 403(b) retirement plan
- Flexible spending accounts
- Short-term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- And more!
- Submit the following materials at: t:
- Cover letter addressing how your personal and professional experiences have prepared you for this position.
- Resume
- Three professional references
- Employment is contingent on passing a background check.
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,founded in 1976, is a global, Christian-based nonprofit organization that grew out of an intentionally multi-racial community in rural Georgia. Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat brings together people of all faiths and people of no faith to build homes, communities and hope. Working alongside each other, we help families and individuals build and improve places to call home and achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Habitatseeks individuals who have a willingness to affirm these principles and values.
At Habitat for Humanity International, we embrace a history rooted in creating equity and take our mission seriously by courageously committing to a culture and workplace where all staff feel safe, welcome, visible, respected, supported and valued. As an equal opportunity employer, we realize that our success depends upon building an inclusive workforce of diverse perspectives and encourage people of varied races (which is inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, protective hairstyles and hair texture), ethnicities, national origins, tribes, religions, ages, gender identities and expressions, genders, sexual orientations, marital statuses, disabilities, veteran/reserve national guard statuses, socio-economic statuses, thinking and communication styles to work with us.
We also require that all staff take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities (especially children), and all those with whom we work. In line with the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, all staff must pass a thorough background screening and will be held accountable to upholding our policies around ethical behavior, including safeguarding and whistleblowing.
