HUD SERVICE COORDINATOR bei None

Full Time HUD Service Coordinator

Summary: Supports the Mission, Philosophies and Goals of the Agency. Coordinates service delivery for caseload by performing the following duties. This grant-funded position coordinates supportive services for low-income elderly persons and persons with disabilities so they may continue living independently in their communities.  

Education/Experience/Certificates/Licenses:  Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university or comparable related experience in working in a social services field preferred; Knowledge of Excel Spreadsheet software and Microsoft Word Processing software. Valid Kansas driver’s license. Must be able to travel 75% of the time (Coffee, Osage, Franklin).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Must obtain Certification according to the HUD SC Grant guidelines.
• Ensure service recipients apply for all entitled public benefit programs, thus reducing living expenses and avoiding eviction actions
• Maintain public benefits spreadsheets. Supporting direct services with monitoring assets and other qualifications for such benefits. At random, checks fixed assets
• Provide resources and support to property management staff regarding service coordination, including assisting individuals with completing initial application and recertification for HUD housing benefits.
• Cultivate and implement service contacts with various community agencies serving elderly individuals with low incomes as well as persons with disabilities
• Create a directory of community providers who support low-income elderly persons and persons with disabilities. Include agencies which provide health, legal, mental health, substance abuse, tax, and transportation services.
• Work with local or chapters of national community health organizations to arrange for periodic mobile health screening events open to residents and the neighboring community 
• Participate in or create networking meetings with other HUD-funded Service Coordinators and directors of programs serving the low-income aging population. Include agencies which provide health, legal, mental health, substance abuse, tax, and transportation services
• Document activities engaged in by time and client or other purpose such as training. Additional documentation as necessary for persons receiving services. involvement. Monitor programs and supports to ensure implementation.
• Must complete trainings as required within specified timeframe. (See Employee Handbook Section 2.11) Complies with all agency policies and procedures including HIPAA/Confidentiality policies.
• Other duties may be assigned

Physical Demands/Work Environment: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move a minimum of 50 pounds; push wheelchairs and provide stability support to people while walking. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions.