PROMOTION Housing Advocate

Job purpose

The Housing Advocate provides client-defined advocacy and case management to survivors of domestic violence, with the goal of helping survivors achieve safe and stable permanent housing.

Why Join AACI?

• 12 Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.
• Comprehensive benefits, including Health Plan Options (95% premium coverage).
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with match.
• Free Headspace mindfulness app access.
• Eligibility for State Loan Forgiveness Program.

Duties and responsibilities

• Support participants in finding, securing, and maintaining safe, affordable housing.
• Provide support, crisis intervention, safety planning, system navigation, system’s advocacy, peer counseling, domestic violence education, and education around life skills.
• Accompany clients to appointments addressing client housing.
• Facilitate referral linkages to community resources and perform case management services.
• Coordinate care for clients with a multidisciplinary team and outside agencies.
• Document and maintain client records per appropriate standards and regulations.
• Assist clients with the development of social and community support systems.
• Attend program and agency meetings.
• Develop effective working relationships with agencies and organizations and advocate for clients.
• Provide outreach and training to diverse communities, service providers, and property owners about gender-based violence, impacts on housing, housing rights, and services for survivors.
• Provide emergency on-call response during off-hours as needed.
• Conduct client intakes and needs assessments as needed.
• Complete other related duties and projects as assigned.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work or similar field, or equivalent combination of relevant experience and education.
• One year or more of case management experience
• Completion of, or ability to complete the California state mandated 40-hour Domestic Violence Assistance training.
• Experience working with survivors of Gender Based Violence or individuals who have experienced trauma preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Experience using Microsoft Office.
• Excellent communication skills.
• This position may require driving. A valid California driver license, current personal auto insurance, and an MVR sufficient to maintain insurability under agency auto liability policies.
• Verbal and written fluency in English required; Bilingual skills in a second language (particularly Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese) desired but not required.

Competencies:

• Ability to communicate well with people of diverse cultural professional and experiential background.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Working conditions

This job requires you to be in the community, in client’s homes, and other community partner sites. Work is often conducted in an office environment. Basic safety precautions and use of protective clothing or gear may be required. Driving is essential to the function of this job. The job requires travel up to 15% of the time. Working with survivors of human trafficking and intimate partner violence may increase exposure to secondary trauma.

Physical requirements

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

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to regularly sit for extended periods of time; and regularly operate a computer and use manual dexterity for tasks such as keyboarding. The mental demands of the job include regular comprehension, reasoning and decision making, organizing, reading, writing, and resilience.

AACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Salary : $25 - $30