The Homeownership Program Specialist supports mortgage-ready clients in purchasing Habitat-Developed homes. Using a client-centered approach, this role guides clients through the homebuying process, ensuring program delivery is efficient, effective, and equitably aligned with the organization’s goal of advancing racial equity and closing the homeownership gap.
Why Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity? We are a well-established nonprofit organization with a strong reputation for its commitment to affordable housing and community development. By joining our team, you would have the opportunity to contribute to a meaningful cause and make a positive impact on the lives of individuals and families in need. Our Mission: Bring people together to create, preserve, and promote affordable homeownership and advance racial equity in housing.
What it’s Like to Work Here: We offer a supportive and inclusive work environment. They value diversity and provide equal opportunities for all employees. You would have the chance to work alongside dedicated professionals who share a common goal of creating safe and affordable housing for everyone.
Required Qualifications
Education, credentials, and experience:
- 4 years of applicable and relevant work experience.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:
- Intercultural Competence: The ability to function effectively across cultures, to think and act appropriately, and to communicate and work with people from different cultural
backgrounds. - Client Focus: Builds strong client relationships, concentrating on how every interaction helps the client.
- Program Management: Implements, participates in and evaluates the results of programs, projects, cases or processes, and manages related resources, personnel and activities to successful completion.
- Knowledge Management and Sharing: Uses formal, informal, and systematic methods to impart information to others that increases organizational effectiveness.
- Collaboration: Works effectively with others, inside and outside the organization, to achieve shared goals.
Preferred Qualifications
Education, credentials, and experience:
- Post-secondary education in a related field.
- Experience in homebuyer education and counseling.
- At least 1 year in the nonprofit sector, preferably serving low- to moderate-income communities, communities of color, or in affordable housing.
- 1–2 years in adult education or similar.
- Experience with federal housing programs and program compliance requirements.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:
- Bi-lingual or fluent in Somali, Arabic, Amharic, Hmong, or other languages.
Medical, dental, vision, free primary care home visits & virtual healthcare, pet insurance, 401(k) retirement plan with company match, flexible spending accounts, Health saving accounts, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, education assistance, paid parental leave, 20 vacation days in the first year, 12 paid sick days, 2 paid volunteer days. See our careers page for more info.
AA/EOE:
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity affirms its social and legal commitment to promote an atmosphere and environment that recognizes the principle and practice of equal employment opportunity. As such, Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, membership in a local human rights commission, or status as a qualified individual with a disability or Vietnam era or other protected veteran.
Twin Cities Habitat’s policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. To achieve our goal of equal opportunity, we maintain an affirmative action program through which we take good faith efforts to recruit, hire and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, persons with disabilities, Vietnam era veterans, and other protected veterans.
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