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Position Summary
The Neighborhood Developers (TND) is hiring a full-time, hybrid Housing Hotline Associate to help Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Arlington, and Winthrop residents with low and moderate incomes apply for rental assistance. Do you believe everyone deserves a quality, affordable home? Are you enthusiastic about combatting displacement? Are you good at helping others figure out how to maneuver complicated application processes? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this position could be for you!
Organization Overview
TND is a non-profit community development organization with a mission to create strong neighborhoods enabling community members to secure a stable home, achieve economic mobility, and determine their own future. We build affordable homes, organize community leaders, and, through our CONNECT program, support households to achieve greater financial mobility by helping them access public benefits, find better jobs, and through financial coaching. TND’s headquarters is in Chelsea, where it has operated since 1978. The organization was invited into Revere in 2010, and since 2018, we are also offering some of our services in Everett. We are excited that this position will allow us to serve additional surrounding communities. For more information see www.theneighborhooddevelopers.org .
Our CONNECT program is a Financial Opportunity Center and partnership of community and nonprofit organizations where residents of our communities can get support to remain in or secure a home, find a better job, improve household finances, and make realistic, achievable plans for a strong financial future all in one place. You can find more information about CONNECT here.
The Housing Hotline Associate will assist residents from diverse backgrounds apply for Residential Assistance for Families in Transition (RAFT), and access other resources, to be able to remain in their home, pay their utilities, or secure a new apartment. Specifically, the Housing Hotline Associate will work 1:1 with RAFT applicants, help them fill out applications, gather the necessary documentation, submit applications for approval, and, where appropriate, refer them to other helpful services. Our Housing Assistance Hotline has helped households apply for and receive close to 17 million in emergency housing assistance over the last four years, while maintaining a client-centered advocacy model. This is an exciting time to join a growing team at CONNECT dedicated to preserving people’s homes and preventing evictions and displacement.
Duties and Responsibilities:
CONNECT and TND.
Desirable Qualifications:
To Apply :
Send a cover letter and a copy of your resume.
TND is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring and it is important to us to bring members onto our team who are passionate about our mission and reflect the BIPOC, immigrant, and linguistic backgrounds of the communities we serve.
Opportunity Communities (OppCo) provides human resources for TND.
Full Time
$40k-55k (estimate)
05/06/2024
05/19/2024
oppcommunities.org
Boston, MA