COUNSELOR, Housing

Full Job Description

Determine continued eligibility and assistance levels to clients receiving the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher subsidy. Maintain and manage assigned caseload, ensuring compliance with HUD regulations, statutory requirements, policies and procedures, and performance rating system. Assist clients in obtaining decent, safe and sanitary housing and maintain working relationship with participants, property owners and community agencies. Conduct effective interviews and calculate and determine reasonable rents, utility reimbursements and subsidy payments.

This posting may close at any time once a sufficient number of applications have been received

BENEFITS

Tarrant County employees enjoy superior health, retirement, and insurance benefits & 13 County Holidays

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http://www.tarrantcounty.com/en/human-resources/employee-benefits.html

Requirements

1. Interviews Section 8 participants to determine continued eligibility for housing assistance and portability
2. Facilitates the verification process for collecting information relevant to program eligibility including, but not limited to, employment, welfare and social security benefits, background checks, and asset verification
3. Accurately maintains participant data in computer tracking system
4. Maintains and manages participant records and files
5. Conducts client and owner briefings, providing information related to program participation, unit eligibility, program requirements, and HUD regulations and fair housing standards
6. Calculates rent for housing subsidy, utility reimbursement and repayment agreements
7. Initiates and maintains Housing Assistance Payment contracts
8. Initiates the termination process for non-compliance with program guidelines, prepares file summary and case analysis for informal hearings
9. Researches, investigates and resolves (when possible) client and property owner complaints
10. Prepares computer generated performance and program reports
11. Coordinates and follows-up appropriately with Housing Quality Standard (HQS) inspections
12. Analyzes rent reasonableness assessments
13. Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or equivalent with two (2) full-time years of public housing or community service agency work experience.

• Additional education will substitute for required experience on a year-for-year basis.

• Must have a valid driver's license.

Additional Information

While performing the duties of this position, the incumbent is regularly required to sit, walk, climb, stoop, lift, push, and pull. Incumbent is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions, wet and/or humid conditions and extreme temperatures. Possibility of working with unpredictable and potentially violent clients. Exposure to communicable and contagious diseases possible.