Financial Empowerment Counselor -PACE

Join NADAP’s exciting new Pathways for Access to Careers and Employment (PACE) program in Brooklyn helping New Yorkers build their employment skills and careers! In this role, you’ll deliver hands-on career guidance, skills training, credential support, and job placement services all while making a real difference in your community. If you’re passionate about workforce development and ready to grow professionally in a mission-driven environment, PACE is where your impact and career take off!

Position Objective:

The Financial Counselor provides one-on-one short-term and emergency financial counseling and/or long-term planning to help clients become financially stable, organized, and self-sufficient on their path to financial independence and prosperity.  The full-time financial counseling professional will focus on budgeting to help eligible clients understand and prioritize their expenses, debts, and saving opportunities, as well as to establish or improve their credit scores and establish or repair credit histories.  They also lead financial workshops, assist with tax and public benefit applications, and support individuals with specific needs, such as child support obligations. This role includes tracking client progress and maintaining accurate records in internal databases.

Essential Functions:

• Provide one-on-one in-person and remote financial counseling and coaching to clients, including budgeting and expense reduction, debt prioritization, credit building, and various other topics and meet with non-custodial parents who struggle to meet their child support obligations and offer support and information on making modifications and offer referrals to the NYC Office of Child Support Services.
• Create and conduct classroom style workshops on various financial topics to groups of clients.
• Refer clients to external legal, financial, tax, and other partners for additional assistance and help members apply for the Earned Income Tax Credit and other tax benefits that they are eligible for.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in finance, economics, or a business-related field, or an associate’s degree with a certification in financial counseling (CUNY Consumer and Personal Finance, etc.), AFCPE, CFP, and CFA. Background in education, banking, finance, community/economic development, or social work.
• 3-5 years of experience providing individualized financial counseling or coaching to individuals of various backgrounds including low-income communities, immigrants, people in crisis, justice involved individuals, veterans, individuals receiving public benefits, youth ages 16-24 years olld
• Commitment to improving the lives of the working poor in New York City through a dedication to affordable financial services and their long-term, wealth creation goals.

Salary Range: $60$65K

Schedule: M-F on site in Brooklyn, NY office

Program Overview: NADAP’s Pathways for Access to Careers and Employment (PACE) program is a new career services initiative funded by NYC's Human Resources Administration working with adults and youth, ages 18+, receiving cash assistance. PACE is designed to improve employment and training outcomes and provides individualized career planning, skills development, credential attainment, employment preparation, job placement and retention services.

Coompany Overview: NADAP, Inc. is a multiservice non-profit agency dedicated to helping people with medical, behavioral health and social service needs to become sufficient. NADAP programs assist disadvantaged populations in New York City and Nassau County. NADAP's services include health insurance enrollment, assessment, care coordination, case management, professional training, job preparation and placement services. At NADAP, we believe in creating an environment where every individual is treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to ensuring that all employees and applicants have an equal opportunity to succeed, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. Visit us at www.nadap.org.   

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