Housing Support Specialist

4 weeks ago


Waverly, United States Friends of the Family Full time

At Friends of the Family, we are committed to maintaining a culture of inclusion. We value diversity and understand that the different backgrounds, skills and experiences of each employee and volunteer help us to succeed at our vision of Everyone Has a Home. We are looking for applicants from all walks of life, including those with lived experience, to help us drive toward our goals. If you are looking for an opportunity to join an organization where you can be your authentic self and make our work your work, we encourage you to apply

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Job Summary:

Provide case management to households experiencing homelessness served by our Rapid Rehousing Demonstration Project to Northeast Iowa, North Central Iowa, and/or Black Hawk, Tama and Grundy Service areas.

What you will do:

  • Assist clients in unit search, identification, and housing placement.
  • Provide direct case management, support in building life skills, trauma informed care and victim advocacy services to program participants in the identified service area to build self-sufficiency.
  • Develop and maintain local partnerships with landlords, housing programs and community partners to assist in obtaining and maintaining safe affordable housing.
  • Apply knowledge of landlord/tenant rights and responsibilities to educate participants of their rights and responsibilities.
  • Support the efforts of direct programming in navigating housing options and resources for those affected by homelessness.
  • Comply with data tracking and documentation requirements.
  • Represent FOF at community and program development meetings as assigned.
  • Travel throughout the FOF service area to provide in-person, in-home, advocacy services and to other locations within the state as necessary for training purposes.
How You Will Succeed:
  • People First- Everyone matters, and you regard people's well-being and success as a priority.
  • Drive Change- We learn not to fear change but instead embrace it enthusiastically. It is even more important that we encourage and drive it. That keeps us in a healthy state of change readiness. Change is based around humbleness and an understanding that we can always grow and get better.
  • Equity and Inclusion-Believe that diversity makes us all better and enjoy working with people of different backgrounds. Work to make every client, colleague and stakeholder feel welcome and understand that we must provide equitable opportunities for all.
  • Emotional Intelligence - EQ allows us to step back and review the consequences of a decision using our emotions as a point of reference rather than as a basis for the decision. It is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of the people around you.
  • Grit - Individuals high in grit can maintain their determination and motivation over long periods despite experiencing failure and adversity. Grit is having the passion, resilience, determination and focus that helps you to be optimistic, persevere and achieve any goals that you may have.
  • Understand, align with and practice under the following philosophies/models: Housing First Model, Trauma-Informed Care, Client-Centered Approach, Harm Reduction, and Low-Barrier Shelter.
  • Believe in our 10-year vision: Everyone has a home.
  • Believe in our mission: To provide safe shelter, confidential services, and housing assistance to individuals in crisis due to homelessness, domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.
  • Understand the 6 components of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS).


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