Temporary Leasing Compliance Associate

Description

• Days Off: Saturday, Sunday
• Shift: Office Day (9am-5pm)
• Insurance Benefits: Dental, Life, Long-term Disability, Medical (no premiums/payroll deductions for employee coverage)

Other Benefits: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), ORCA card subsidy, Paid Time Off (34 days per year), Retirement Plan

About Desc:

DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center) is a nonprofit organization working to help people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing. Our vision is a community where no person is abandoned, ignored, or experiencing homelessness.

As the region's leading provider of services to multiply disabled adults who have experienced chronic homelessness, DESC serves almost 3,000 people each day. Our integrated service model is designed to help people secure and maintain appropriate, safe and affordable housing. DESC is recognized nationally and regionally as an innovator in developing solutions to homelessness.

Job Description:

Working closely with both program and administrative staff, this position provides a spectrum of administrative services to DESC’s housing & homeless service programs. This position plays a key role in ensuring programs are complying with all applicable laws, regulations and contract requirements by preparing and reviewing lease files, supporting with training around move in and lease standards, providing audit support, and driving quality assurance activities. Strong candidates will have strong computer skills, including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and Adobe Acrobat.

Major Duties And Responsibilities

• Train and provide ongoing support across departments around the Coordinated Entry process for new staff
• Maintain frequent contact with managers and frontline staff to review each team's workflow is aligned with larger CE referral process and to drive increased access to housing resources
• Assist with data analysis in housing placement trends including, but not limited to, referral attrition, mobility transfers, and rehousing risk assessments
• Update vacancy tracker and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders on referrals into DESC portfolio
• Coordinate VAT work at DESC including facilitating meetings, providing capacity for 1-2 VATs a week, and training staff to become VAT assessors as a VAT trainer
• Assist the leasing Compliance Associate in reviewing and compiling eligibility paperwork and lease files, as needed
• Assist in various quality assurance activities, including but not limited to internal audits.
• Attend and participate in relevant team meetings, agency sponsored trainings, all-staff meetings, and represent DESC in the community when needed; and perform clerical and other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Relevant experience in an administrative setting
• Strong computer skills, including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and Adobe Acrobat. Comfort working in open-source applications and/or ability to learn property management software.
• Careful attention to detail; Ability to organize and coordinate work efficiently; prioritize workload, work under pressure with tight timelines and changing priorities.
• Ability to work independently with a minimum of supervision, and act of own initiative, within agency procedural guidelines.
• Willingness to be flexible and work cooperatively with co-workers to accomplish all responsibilities of the team; Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to work effectively with staff from various backgrounds and disciplines; Appropriate safeguarding and handling of confidential and proprietary information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Familiarity with subsidized housing system and experience working with individuals challenged by homelessness, mental illness and/or substance abuse

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required sit for long periods of time, communicate with other employees by talking and hearing, required to lift and carry items weighing up to 25 pounds and to operate computer hardware systems. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

DESC is committed to diversity in the workplace, and promotes equal employment opportunities for all staff members and applicants. The Agency will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, caste, marital status, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability in any employment practice, unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification. Minorities and veterans are encouraged to apply.