Assistant Housing Manager – Eagle Rock

Alliance for Housing and Healing (Alliance), a leading nonprofit housing provider for persons in the homeless crisis offers a pathway way out of homelessness and into health and self-sufficiency to the community of Los Angeles for more than 30 years with a continuum of services related to housing and psycho-social support. Beginning in the midst of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Alliance for Housing and Healing has been opening doors to those in our community needing short and long-term assistance. Please visit our website to learn more about us at www.alliancehh.org.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Assistant Housing Manager will primarily be responsible for coordinating between property owners/managers to ensure timely attention to resident requests. In addition, the Assistant Housing Manager will have shared responsibilities for intakes and relocations as well as unit inspections.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and develop communications with vendors and landlords.
• Avert possible evictions of master-leased units by maintaining professional relationships with property owners and managers, promptly addressing their concerns.
• Compose correspondence, memos, reports as directed.
• Participate in agency staff meetings, trainings and in-services.
• Participate in outreach, service-planning networks, and other meetings as appropriate.
• Work closely with Housing Specialists, Social Workers and Supportive Service Coordinators to assist with housing retention efforts and facilitate communication among the involved parties.
• Remain up to date on available housing resources and assistance.
• Perform additional tasks as assigned by supervisor.
• Perform basic maintenance as needed, including changing door locks, checking smoke detectors, etc.
• Responsible for maintaining keys and key logs in the PSH program.
• Ensures timely invoicing and oversees submission for payment of contracted work.
• Facilitate the purchase of necessary household goods including appliances, furniture and move-in packages.
• Perform additional tasks as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience with vendor management.
• Competency working with our client population, which includes 1) persons who are experiencing or who have experienced homelessness; 2) persons with dual diagnoses; 3) persons with substance abuse challenges; 4) persons living with HIV/AIDS; 5) persons who identify with the LGBT community.

• Knowledge of community resources in Los Angeles County.
• Strong knowledge of the complexity of HIV/AIDS-related issues, chronic homelessness, and co- morbidities, including mental illness, trauma, substance abuse, aging, and chronic health issues
• Excellent active listening and crisis intervention skills with ability to model good judgment
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities, work independently as well as a member of a team.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) and Internet
• Valid California driver’s license required.
• Must have access to a car with CA insurance
• Must have a good driving record
• Bilingual English/Spanish (Preferred).
• Background check and annual TB screening required

Benefits offered:

• Paid time off
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Healthcare flexible spending account
• Retirement benefits or accounts
• Employee discounts

Compensation is competitive and will be commensurate with experience.

*PLEASE READ THIS:

*To Apply: Please send 1) a resume and 2) a customized cover letter with subject line “Assistant Housing Manager” to Caroline McKiernan at [email protected] in response to this posting.

Please do NOT submit your resume more than once.

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: 

Alliance believes that health happens with housing.

Alliance for Housing and Healing (Alliance) is a merged organization formed from two nonprofits (Aid for AIDS and the Serra Project) responding heroically to the AIDS crisis. Aid for AIDS was founded in 1983 by a small group of friends in the greater Hollywood area to help others in the community devastated by AIDS. Among those early directors of the organization was gay and lesbian civil rights activist Morris Kight. By providing emergency rent, mortgage, and utility payments, AFA allowed people to die with dignity in their own homes. Since its founding, AFA touched the lives of more than 16,000 men, women, and children. The Serra Project, was founded in 1987 under the sponsorship of the Catholic Archdiocese in response to the community’s battle with acute HIV and AIDS. In 1988, the Serra Project opened the first group home in the City of Los Angeles to later be state licensed as a Residential Care Facility for the Chronically Ill (RCFCI). Today Alliance continues to serve those experiencing homelessness and comorbidities (such as HIV/AIDS and other chronic illnesses) and remains very much a part of the community that founded it.

Job Type:

• Full-time, Exempt

Location:

• Los Angeles (Eagle Rock), CA (Required)

Hours per Week:

• More than 40 (Preferred)

Work Location:

• One location