Permanent Supportive Housing Liaison

Preble Street • Portland, ME

2d • $23

About The Position

The Permanent Supportive Housing Services Program (PSHP) Housing Liaison will support the PSHP team in managing relationships with landlords working with the PSHP program. This position leads the efforts to outreach, recruit, collaborate, and educate landlords, property managers to work with PSHP. This position supports staff with landlord engagement training, provides mediation support, and actively collaborates with staff, supervisors and landlords to ensure that PSHP participants have access to affordable housing options and maintain that housing once it has been secured. This is a full-time (40 hours/week) position with a Monday – Friday, 8:00am – 4:30pm schedule

Requirements

• A BSW, BA, or equivalent experience in a helping profession.
• Must be comfortable with communicating and selling the benefits of our program.
• This position also requires local and statewide travel on a regular basis.
• Experience working in fields of real estate, property management, recruiting, marketing, communications, social services, or other related field s.

Nice To Haves

• knowledge of issues related to homelessness and housing
• a positive regard for consumers accessing services for homelessness and poverty
• knowledge of community resources, solid communication and organizational skills
• ability to work well independently and as part of a team

Responsibilities

• managing relationships with landlords
• outreach, recruit, collaborate, and educate landlords, property managers to work with PSHP
• landlord engagement training
• provides mediation support
• collaborates with staff, supervisors and landlords to ensure that PSHP participants have access to affordable housing options and maintain that housing once it has been secured

Benefits

• generous paid time off
• insurance
• retirement plan benefits include: 4 weeks (160 hours, accrued) vacation time, 12 days (96 hours, accrued) sick time, 32 hours personal time, 12 Paid Holidays
• Health insurance w/ 100% employer-paid option
• Dental insurance w/ 100% employer-paid option
• Vision insurance
• Employer-paid Life, STD, and LTD insurance
• 403(b) retirement plan w/ employer match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees