Compliance Specialist (REMOTE)

Elmington; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Elmington as a Compliance Specialist and play a crucial role in ensuring compliance for affordable communities. You will oversee important regulations in affordable housing, support property staff, and contribute to innovative property management. This position requires a focus on excellence, communication, and passion for great service. If you're driven, creative, and ready for challenges, consider a career with us!

Benefits

Equal Opportunity Employer

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of similar experience in compliance or property management.
• Experience with Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) certification paperwork.
• Ability to calculate income/assets using basic math.

Responsibilities

• Review resident files for compliance with state requirements.
• Provide guidance on corrections needed for tenant files.
• Ensure compliance with HUD/Tax Credit rules and regulations.

Skills

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Attention to Detail

Problem Solving

Customer Service

Education

Associate's Degree (preferred)

Tools

Excel

PDF Creator

Job description

Position Summary

At Elmington Property Management, we do things a little differently. We're not your ordinary property management group and pride ourselves on doing business with smarts while being unexpected. We thrive on showing investors, customers, and residents that property development & management doesn't have to be boring. Most property management companies refer to the team that keeps things running smoothly as "maintenance", but we are NOT most property management companies. Elmington focuses on providing the best service to our residents and our owners!

The Compliance Specialist provides support to affordable communities by ensuring they are in compliance with Federal and State rules and regulations. This is accomplished through reviewing documents and providing guidance to site staff when corrections are needed.

To be an effective Elmington Property Management teammate, you will need to:

• Have a tireless work ethic
• Think BEYOND the box
• Be confident and smart
• Be self-sufficient and self-motivated
• Think creatively
• NOT accept the status quo
• Work with passion
• Take pride in your work
• Be a good listener
• Offer a solution with every problem
• Be inspiring and empower your teams/portfolios
  
  

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to liaise effectively with team members, leadership, and residents.
• Outstanding organizational skills to manage multiple priorities, tasks, and deadlines efficiently.
• A passion for chasing excellence and providing exemplary customer service.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance in Low-Income Housing HUD/Tax Credit rules and regulations by overseeing programs, policies, and practices.
• Compliance experience reviewing Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC or Section 42) certification paperwork
• Proven experience with other affordable housing programs such as HUD, Section 8, 202, and/or 811
• Ability to calculate income/assets using basic math
• Ability to use and/or learn to navigate computer software systems. (i.e. PMS, state systems), and basic knowledge of PDF creator, excel, and word
• Attention to detail
• Ethical conduct
  
  

Essential Job Functions

• Reviews resident files for completion and compliance with state requirements
• Reviews files electronically
• Meets specific deadlines set by state agencies
• Approves files once complete
• Enters tenant data into the state online systems
• Provides guidance on tenant file corrections to staff at the property sites
• Performs all other duties as assigned
  
  

Specific Education Or Experience

• Associate's Degree preferred, but not required
• 2-5 years of similar experience
• Experience in other programs preferred but not required
  
  

Physical Demands And Work Environment

• Frequently sit, stand and walk.
• Regularly required to talk or hear.
• Frequently required to use hands or fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.
• Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Vision abilities to include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Temperature in the workplace is typically moderate, though the ability to withstand seasonal cold and heat of the outdoors is necessary.
  
  

Travel Requirements

• Occasional travel for state trainings and onsite
  
  

The Elmington Experience

We're creating a different kind of company at Elmington. We promise we will never be ordinary, which we hope you can see by this job description. There will be many days you simply aren't comfortable. You will be pushed to accomplish more than you ever thought possible. You will be challenged by your team leader and your peers to achieve more and to find better ways. With that said, we know Elmington is not for everyone. BUT, if you believe in yourself, enjoy a challenge and appreciate working with exceptional people, then Elmington could very well be the last company you ever work for.

Elmington Property Management is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Elmington Property Management makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.