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.