CDBG-DR Housing Recovery Specialist

Michael Baker International; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Life and disability insurance

Professional development

Generous paid time off

Commuter benefits

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Tidal Basin, a Michael Baker company, seeks a CDBG-DR Housing Specialist to support owner-occupied housing rehabilitation and related disaster recovery programs in a consulting and client-service setting.

You will integrate applicant, property, eligibility, award, environmental, inspection, construction, payment, and closeout data; maintain audit-ready records; and elevate complex issues per program requirements. Collaboration with multiple teams is essential to ensure accuracy and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in housing, public administration, planning, business, construction, social sciences, emergency management, or a related field preferred; directly relevant experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Responsibilities

• Support implementation of homeowner rehabilitation, reconstruction, replacement, reimbursement, elevation, mitigation, and related housing recovery activities.
• Review applicant and property records for completeness and consistency, including ownership, occupancy, primary residence, income, household composition, national objective, disaster impact, duplication of benefits, and other program requirements.
• Coordinate intake, eligibility, award calculation, environmental review, inspections, scope development, construction, payment, compliance, and closeout milestones.
• Prepare case summaries, determination support, correspondence, notices, checklists, exception requests, and management briefing materials.
• Maintain complete, accurate, timely, and audit-ready records in approved case management, document management, grants management, and reporting systems.
• Monitor assigned cases or portfolios for aging, missing documentation, dependencies, risks, service-level commitments, and required follow-up.
• Explain program requirements and next steps clearly to applicants, contractors, client representatives, and internal teams without making unauthorized commitments.
• Identify and elevate policy ambiguity, inconsistent documentation, potential duplication of benefits, fraud indicators, environmental concerns, applicant complaints, construction issues, and unsupported determinations.
• Coordinate with case management, policy, environmental, legal, inspections, construction, finance, data, technology, and quality-control personnel.
• Support quality reviews, monitoring, audits, appeals, complaints, records requests, corrective actions, and grant closeout.
• Follow maker-checker controls, approval thresholds, privacy, information security, records retention, conflict-of-interest, and timekeeping requirements.
• Assist with program startup, testing, training, workflow documentation, surge operations, and continuous improvement.
• Perform other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned to meet project, client, and organizational needs.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Tidal Basin, a Michael Baker company, seeks a CDBG-DR Housing Specialist to support owner-occupied housing rehabilitation and related disaster recovery programs in a consulting and client-service setting.

You will integrate applicant, property, eligibility, award, environmental, inspection, construction, payment, and closeout data; maintain audit-ready records; and elevate complex issues per program requirements. Collaboration with multiple teams is essential to ensure accuracy and compliance.