Family Housing Services
Housing Supervisor
Hours: Monday – Thursday
Status: Full Time
Reports To: FHS Program Manager
Purpose:
Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:
- Provide direction and supervision to program staff, and provide hands-on assistance, to assist them, in carrying out their assigned duties with the housing programs.
- Responsible for supervising the entire rental assistance process with staff engagement with clients, including collection of required documents, submission of rental assistance application, client follow-up, and disbursement of funds
- Prepare employee goals, to improve employee development and quality of care to customers, to include consumers, peers, and external community contacts.
- Meet/Call clients who are having issues with their Case Manager.
- Provide training on files, procedures, and service requests, for all new hires and direct reports.
- Review reports compliance audits to ensure that all data is entered in true time (daily).
- Attend various community meetings to support the housing problem solving and progressive engagement motto.
- Verifies all housing rental requests are correct, compliant and free from errors.
- Maintains a safe and positive community relationship, which includes public relations with neighbors and other providers.
- Presents program information to community agencies regarding eligibility requirements.
- Maintain a safe and positive community relationship, by working closely with referral services to communicate program needs and philosophy.
- Meets regularly with the Program Director to monitor program content, community referrals, staffing issues, and overall planning and implementation of programs.
- Will share the on-call supervisor responsibilities with the program director and housing supervisor. Will report to the facility, if necessary, when an emergency arises.
- Other duties, as may be assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of local social service agencies and programs, as they pertain to the local homeless or at-risk youth and family population.
- Knowledge of applicable statutes and regulations
- Knowledge of social service work, interviewing/referral techniques
- Experience and understanding of homeless issues
- Understand and follow complex instructions and procedures. Analyze situations accurately and adopt an effective course of action
- Must communicate effectively with people from a variety of social, cultural, and economic populations.
- Ability to maintain order and exercise appropriate judgment in crisis situations.
- Must be flexible and be able to adjust to shifting priorities.
- Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with consumers, fellow employees, other agencies, and the public
- Organize work schedule and manage time
- Understand and follow all agency policies and procedures
- Ability to work flexible hours, as required by case load
- Ability to perform accurate mathematical equations to calculate clients rent and utility costs, and request funding to pay those bills.
- Professional competence in creating databases and working effectively using Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, Power Point, and Access.
Qualifications, Education and/or Equivalent Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in social work or High School Diploma with 4 years-experience, substantially equivalent to a bachelor’s degree, or combination of education and experience.
- Professional experience, as required by education
- Must have a valid NV driver’s license and clean DMV record.
- Must be able to pass a background check and pre‑employment drug screening.
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