Pre-Housing Associate/GBV

All Chicago; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team at a forward-thinking organization focused on ending homelessness in Chicago. As a Pre-Housing Associate, you will play a crucial role in supporting individuals fleeing gender-based violence by facilitating their housing process. This position involves liaising with landlords, assisting with rental applications, and ensuring compliance with housing laws. You will work collaboratively with passionate colleagues in a supportive environment, contributing to impactful solutions that stabilize homes and empower communities. If you are committed to making a difference and have a background in social services, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Employer-matched retirement plan

Paid leave

Qualifications

• Experience in social work or homeless services is highly preferred.
• Strong administrative skills with ability to prioritize tasks effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support participant rental applications from start to lease signing.
• Communicate with landlords ensuring compliance with local laws.
• Assist with data entry and tracking for housing activities.

Skills

Effective writing and verbal communication

Detail orientation

Critical thinking

Organizational skills

Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Education

Background in social work or related field

Tools

MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams)

Salesforce

HMIS

Job description

Description

REPORTS TO: Program Manager, GBV Rapid Rehousing

STATUS: Non-exempt, hourly, full-time

LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois, (currently hybrid remote/in-office schedule)

SALARY RANGE: $34,940 to $49,580

ABOUT ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY (ALL Chicago MHH):

All Chicago MHH’s mission is to unite our community and resources to provide solutions that ensure and sustain the stability of home. On any given night, nearly 6,000 Chicagoans do not have a place to call home. These are our neighbors and together we can ensure that we all have stable homes.

All Chicago MHH prevents and ends homelessness through emergency financial assistance, community partnerships, data analytics, and training and research. We strengthen our community’s collective efforts to prevent and end homelessness, guided by a vision of impact, influence, and inspiration. As our name implies, All Chicago MHH brings together homeless service providers, non-profit partners, donors, and people with the lived experience of homelessness in a strategic effort to make homelessness history in Chicago.

All Chicago has expanded its programming to focus on serving people fleeing gender-based violence (GBV), including those fleeing domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual assault, and other unsafe situations. HUD awarded All Chicago 4.1 million of DV Bonus funding to serve the GBV population. All Chicago is the grant recipient. All Chicago works to select, train, and support DV providers in the Chicago area to provide services to individuals fleeing GBV that lack financial resources and have no subsequent resident.

We bring a sense of collaboration to our work and actively seek solutions through partnership! Come to work with passionate, like-minded colleagues in a supportive environment as we help end homelessness. Learn more at www.allchicago.org.

Position Summary:

The Pre-Housing Associate is a key member of the Rapid Rehousing team. The Pre-Housing Associate has the central responsibility to provide support to the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) and American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-funded Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) Program.

Primarily, the Pre-Housing Associate (PHA) is the main point of contact at and after the Accelerated Moving Event (AME) and will be responsible for supporting participant rental applications from start to lease signing. The PHA will communicate with landlords across the city of Chicago ensuring they are following the Just Housing Act and all local laws. The PHA will provide on-site support to the AME Manager and ongoing support to the GBV Program Manager with responsibilities such as case conferencing, participating in Orientation trainings and Quarterly GBV Rapid Re-Housing Partner Meetings.

Desired Core Competencies:

• Communication: Communicates clearly and collaboratively through written and verbal methods both internally across teams and externally with community members.
• Detail orientation: Able to process, organize and complete a lot of information paying close attention while meeting quick turn around times.
• Critical thinking: Approaches problems methodically and creatively. Uses curiosity to ensure understanding of problems and propose solutions.

Position Responsibilities:

Navigate the housing process for individual program households in coordination with other staff roles, including Chicago Rents staff, Housing Liaisons, Landlords, Case Managers, and other support staff.

• Liaise between Chicago Rents Program and RRH agency staff by submitting unit applications to landlord partners.
• Facilitate a strong connection between case management staff and landlord partner.
• Support completion of leasing documentation and lease by case manager and landlord partner.
• Ensure all necessary move-in documentation is complete and added to appropriate databases.
• Enter initial funding requests into Salesforce system.
• Identify and uplift opportunities for process improvements, while staying up to-date regarding process adjustments.
• Support data quality and oversight as needed. This may include data entry, tracking, or reporting.
• Maintain and monitor administrative materials needed to support housing activities.
• Attend AMEs as an All Chicago representative to assist with keeping Salesforce current with unit and participant information.
• Respond to calls from homeless and at-risk community members seeking resources and assistance.
• Participate and support the coordination and administrative activities of internal team meetings, partner meetings, and external CoC meetings.
• Communicate effectively with supervisors, peers, and partners in written, oral and in-person communication in both groups and at public events.
• Complete 40-hour Domestic Violence training.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• A background in social work, homeless services, supportive housing, direct service or equivalent experience is highly preferred
• Effective writing and verbal communications skills.
• Strong administrative and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize work on time-sensitive matters while maintaining progress on long-term projects to ensure deadlines are met both independently and cross collaboratively
• Skilled in office-based applications including but not limited to: MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams), Salesforce, HMIS
• Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and ability to work effectively with colleagues and community partners with different backgrounds and experiences
• Understands and applies housing first and trauma informed care approaches
• Commitment to advancing All Chicago’s mission of preventing and ending homelessness in Chicago

Compensation

We offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision insurance, and disability, employer-matched retirement plan, paid leave, and more.

To Apply:

• Please submit cover letter, resume, and salary range requirement