Housing Navigator - Extra-Help
Currently, the CDC is looking for a Housing Navigator who has knowledge of tenant/landlord relations and Fair Housing laws and practices, as well as experience related to:
- Providing intensive personalized housing location assistance, advocating on a client's behalf, and connecting clients with appropriate mainstream resources
- Coordinating with victim advocates to find appropriate housing, filling out applications, and assisting clients with housing applications and vouchers
- Arranging and advocating on behalf of clients for shared or innovative housing arrangements, when appropriate
- Recruiting and engaging landlords, renter associations, property management companies, and other local housing providers to identify potential rental properties
- Encouraging landlords to rent to clients receiving subsidies by negotiating financial incentives such as reimbursement for additional security deposits and paying for last month's rent, tenant screening reports, and the cost of bringing a unit up to habitability standards
- Negotiating and implementing housing assistance contracts and leases between property owners and tenants
- Performing initial housing unit inspections and annual re-inspections of properties for compliance with Federal housing quality standards, to include mediating owner and tenant complaints, processing terminations and claims, and assisting landlords in handling appeals
This position requires a considerable amount of fieldwork. This position is in the Sonoma County Community Development Commission, which is a separate entity from the County of Sonoma, and not within the Sonoma County Civil Service System. You can learn more about the services we provide our community clients by visiting the CDC's Housing Authority website.
EXTRA-HELP EMPLOYMENT
Extra-help employees relieve or augment permanent staff. Temporary, extra-help employees are not in the classified civil service and do not have property rights to permanently allocated positions. In addition, they do not receive most employee benefits such as: long-term disability insurance coverage; accrual of vacation; participation in the County retirement program; or eligibility to take promotional examinations. Temporary, extra-help employees are limited in their employment to a maximum of one calendar year. These employees must be off of work for three months before they can be re-employed on an extra help basis. Extra-help employees who meet the eligibility requirements may qualify for a County contribution toward medical coverage.
*Salary is negotiable. The formal title of this position is Housing Navigator/Inspector. Bilingual positions require English and Spanish skills at either the basic (conversational) or fluent (reading, writing, and conversational) level. A bilingual examination will be conducted prior to employment to confirm level of skill. The bilingual premium pay of $1.15 cents per hour begins upon the assignment of a bilingual caseload.
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Minimum Qualifications
License: Possession of a valid driver's license at the appropriate level including special endorsements, as required by the State of California, may be required depending upon assignment to perform the essential job functions of the position.