Stabilization Mentor

Stabilization Mentor

What will you be doing?

Making an impact every day. You will be part of a dynamic, passionate team of mentors working directly with our participants who have recently left EMPath’s emergency shelter programs. You will be supporting their journey to self-sufficiency and remaining stably housed.

The Stabilization Mentor is a critical role in EMPath’s Mobility Mentoring model, engaging in goal setting and within our framework of maintaining permanent housing, employment, and savings within a two-year horizon. Through this work you become a certified Mobility Mentor®

• Assisting families with all aspects of managing their tenancy, collaborating with the housing team and landlords
• Providing advocacy, consumer education, and crisis management when necessary to prevent housing disruption.
• Helping families establish, strengthen, and maintain residential stability and connections to their neighborhood, through schools, employment services, and medical providers.

What do you need to be successful in this role?

• Passion for and experience in working with a diverse population, including homeless and formerly homeless, immigrants, and BIPOC families.
• Proven skill in collaborating with families to develop goals and providing clear feedback.
• Understanding of housing subsidy programs, as well as Landlord/Tenant rights.
• Deep understanding and respect for data. We are a data driven organization.
• Tech savvy, computer literate
• Be an effective communicator
• Strong organizational, mediation, and negotiation skills.
• Willingness to meet our participants where they need you; online or in-person. Some evenings and weekends may be required.
• Access to reliable transportation is required
• Flexibility and resilience

Ways to stand out

• Bi-lingual Spanish or Haitian Creole

• 3 plus years’ experience in human and/or social services
• Bachelor’s degree in human and/or social services

Why EMPath?

The Work The work, the participants and your colleagues are committed to Disrupting Poverty.

Learning – We are a learning culture – We offer person-centered professional development,
Mobility Mentoring® certification for all coaches and tuition reimbursement

Work/Life Balance: 4-day work week - 9 hour days/36 hour week. 4 weeks of paid time off, 10 paid holidays, competitive salary, retirement planning and competitive healthcare benefits.

Who is EMPath?

Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath) transforms lives by helping people move out of poverty and provides other organizations with the tools to do the same.

As a leading nonprofit innovator that combines program delivery, independent research, and public advocacy, we offer a wide range of rewarding career opportunities.

EMPath is committed to recruiting, hiring, and sustaining a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, sexuality, age, disability, or veteran status, are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are an EEO/AA/ADA/ADEA employer based in Boston, Massachusetts.

If you are hired, we will require you to prove that you have received the COVID-19 vaccine or have a valid religious or medical reason not to be vaccinated.

All offers of employment at EMPath are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check.