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NYC Financial Empowerment Center – Workforce One Job Title: Financial Fitness Counselor Location: Jamaica, Queens
Job Type: In- Person (not remote)
About Urban Upbound
Founded in 2004, the mission of Urban Upbound is to break cycles of poverty in public housing neighborhoods by providing youth and adults the tools and resources needed to achieve economic mobility and self-sufficiency. Urban Upbound advances its mission through five integrated programs: employment services, financial counseling, income support services, community revitalization, and access to safe and affordable banking through the Urban Upbound Federal Credit Union. Our services are reared in the Jobs- Plus model, a proven place-based employment program designed to increase the earnings and employment of working age public housing residents. This three-pronged approach includes: employment-related services; financial incentives that make work pay; and community supports for work, the strengthening of social ties among residents and community stakeholders to support residents' job preparation and work efforts.
Urban Upbound seeks a dedicated professional to fill the Financial Counselor position. The right individual will join an already robust Financial Fitness team to work at our NYC Department of Consumer Affairs, Office of Financial Empowerment, Financial Empowerment Center located at the Jamaica Queens Workforce One Office. The Financial Counselor provides a range of financial services that are tailored to the needs of individual participants; from changing participants' attitudes towards their financial futures and goal setting, to credit repair and debt management, to long-term asset building of homeownership, higher education, retirement planning while officiating a supervisory role. The ideal candidate would have individualized financial literacy counseling experience with clients from diverse economic, cultural and social backgrounds including low to moderate income residents. This person will also have prior individual and group counseling experience and the ability to attend and pass mandatory personal finance training courses. He or she will be able to work independently and as part of the broader financial program team to coordinate financial services for Workforce One clients and promote opportunities to the community local.
The Financial counselor is someone who is flexible, open and caring to the greater population. You will be on the front lines of poverty alleviation, working with an innovative city organization, which is constantly changing and evolving its tactics towards tackling poverty in NYC.
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Please submit a resume and cover letter to: petraann@urbanupbound.org. Include Youth Pathways Financial Fitness Counselor in the subject line.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $48,000.00 - $55,000.00 per year
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Work Location: Multiple locations
Full Time
Banking
$58k-85k (estimate)
05/19/2024
06/01/2024
urbanupbound.org
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY
<25
2004
MITCHELL G TAYLOR
$5M - $10M
Banking
Urban Upbounds mission is to provide public housing residents with a comprehensive group of accessible, vital, and impactful services to tackle poverty and change lives. We work with the more than 30,000 individuals living in four Western Queens public housing neighborhoods Queensbridge (the largest public housing community in the nation), Astoria, Woodside, and Ravenswood. Urban Upbound serves clients through four comprehensive programs: 1.) Workforce Development: providing soft skills job readiness training and one-on-one career counseling, as well as job placement and retention assistance ...for the unemployed and underemployed. 2.) Financial Fitness Program: providing a suite of financial empowerment services including one-on-one crisis and short-term counseling, one-on-one long-term asset building counseling, community-based financial educational workshops, free tax preparation and comprehensive public benefits screening and enrollment. 3.) Youth Development/College Access: Urban Upbounds youth services include in-depth SAT, college preparation, and college retention services. 4.) Community Revitalization: Urban Upbound ensures public housing neighborhoods have access to community assets such as mainstream financial services through the Urban Upbound Federal Credit Union, opened in 2010, the Urban Upbound FCU is the first low-income designated credit union in Queens ever.
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