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Lead Tenant Rights Counselor Jobs in San Francisco, California, USA at Dolores Street Community Services
Job Announcement Lead Tenant Rights Counselor
Position:Lead Tenant Rights Counselor
Reports to:MSROC Program Manager
Compensation:$52, Full-Time, commensurate with experience. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, flexible spending account, commuter benefits, paid holiday, paidsick leave, generous vacation with Summer Recess and Winter Recess, and 401(K) with employer matching.
About the Organization:
Mission Action has been growing rapidly, therefore, we have created a lot of new positions in different programs. Please consider joining our team to serve the communities. Founded in 1982, Mission Action, formerly known as Dolores Street Community Services (DSCS), is a multi-issue, multi-strategy nonprofit organization, with almost 150 employees and an annual budget of $14.5 million, based in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Our mission is to nurture individualwellnessand cultivate collective power among low-income and immigrant communities to create a more just society. We provide direct services to meet immediate needs, as well as affect broader change by engaging inadvocacyand community organizing, working on a wide range of issues—from homelessness, to housing, to immigration, to employment. We believe deeply that these issues are interconnected, and that they must be addressed in solidarity to create a more just society.
Position Objective:
The Mission SROCollaborative(MSROC), a partnership with Lyon Martin Health Services/ Women’s Community Clinic, the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, and the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition (SFADC), organizes with SRO (Single Room Occupancy) hotel tenants throughout the Mission to protect SRO housing stock, improve living conditions, and fight for housing justice. Mission Action seeks a Full-Time Tenant Rights Counselor to provide counseling to low-income tenants across the city with issues involving their tenant rights and housing justice.
This counselor will carry a caseload of tenants, prepare formal documents to assist tenants in ongoing conversations with property owners/landlords, perform informative workshops, conduct outreach on an as-needed basis, and other duties, as assigned. This position will work as part of the MSROC team and represent the agency in some citywide collaboratives and coalitions.
Responsibilities:
Plan and perform intake on and provide housing counseling to low-income tenants (including monolingual Spanish-speaking) by assessing housing problems, answering questions, and providing relevant information.
Monitor and keep track of program deliverables.
Provide warm referrals to other programs for financial assistance, counseling, or other supportive services based on the tenants’/clients’ individual needs.
Advocate for families and individuals by coordinating with outside agencies in regard to code enforcement and general evictionpreventionsupport in an effort to help tenants achieve housing stability.
Coordinate and facilitate educational Know-Your-Rights workshops,leadership developmentprograms, and peer-to-peer outreach andpreventionefforts.
Participate inadvocacyand organizing campaigns related to housing justice, including organizing tenants to choose winnable goals, and strategizing to win concrete outcomes.
Represent MSROC in housing rights coalitions and coordinatecollaborative workwith other participating organizations and coalitions that work in related areas.
Ensure information regarding a client’…
Title: Lead Tenant Rights Counselor
Company: Dolores Street Community Services
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Category: Non-Profit, Social Work
