Housing Benefit Program Specialist

2 weeks ago

Winnipeg, Canada End Homelessness Winnipeg Full time

Job Posting - EHW 2024-004

**Housing Benefits Program Specialist**

Under the general direction of the Senior Director Housing Supports, the Housing Benefit Program Specialist is responsible for ensuring that the rent supplements and building services programs are administered effectively and efficiently to prevent and end homelessness. You will work collaboratively with the Senior Director Housing Supports, End Homelessness Winnipeg staff, community organizations/workers, and key stakeholders to address homelessness in Winnipeg. Your key duties and responsibilities will include:
**Rent Supplements**
- Develop operating procedures and administrative forms and revise them as needed in consultation with the Senior Director Housing Supports and others as appropriate

**Building Services**
- Develop operating procedures and administrative forms and revise them as needed in consultation with the Senior Director Housing Supports and others as appropriate
- Develop and maintain formal agreements and good working relationships with contractors and other suppliers in consultation with the Senior Director Housing Supports to ensure that housing units can be repaired, and other goods and services received in a timely manner

**Building Services and Rent Supplements**
- Schedule, attend, and facilitate regular meetings with community organizations/workers to establish good working relationships, troubleshoot, and develop/maintain best practices

You are passionate about ending homelessness and have an in-depth understanding of homelessness and housing, as well as the needs of particularly vulnerable and over-represented populations and the issues affecting many homeless and low-income people. You also possess the following qualifications or an equivalent combination of education and related experience:

- Working knowledge of the following: community issues such as homelessness, colonization, poverty reduction, etc.; EIA and other income support programs; property management and Manitoba’s The Residential Tenancies Act; common household repairs and maintenance
- Ability to lead and/or facilitate small and large group discussions
- Experience interacting with community organizations, funders, and stakeholders
- Ability to work in a Windows environment including intermediate to advanced skill using Microsoft Office programs (Word and Excel, PowerPoint) and experience using QuickBooks or other accounting software
- Experience negotiating contracts with contractors and monitoring the work
- Conflict resolution training

As End Homelessness Winnipeg is committed to reconciliation and the inclusion of an Indigenous world view, experience with the practice of Indigenous culture, history, knowledge systems, and Indigenous community relationship building practices and protocols is an asset.

Salary range: $57,030 to $66,113 depending on qualifications and experience.

This Full-Time Permanent position is unionized under MGEU Local 439.

**End Homelessness Winnipeg is an Indigenous mandated, collective impact organization that is committed to ending homelessness in Winnipeg.**

**End Homelessness Winnipeg is guided by the Truth & Reconciliation Report and its Calls to Action.**

**Self-identifying as Indigenous or having first-hand knowledge or experience working with Indigenous communities will be considered an asset.**

**End Homelessness Winnipeg is proudly located on Urban Reserve Land**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $57,030.00-$66,113.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision care

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2024-03-18

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