Employment
Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida (NHSSF) is a local homeownership center and community development organization. Our mission is to collaborate with residents and other stakeholders to stabilize neighborhoods and develop sustainable housing. We provide a full spectrum of homeownership services in English and Spanish.
AVAILABLE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:
Position: Economic Mobility Corps Members
NHSSF seeks AmeriCorps Members to making meaningful difference across the South Florida community. Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida (NHSSF), a community-based organization, engaged in housing counseling, financial capability education and training, affordable housing development, and community-based lending seeks to hire numerous AmeriCorps members.
NHSSF-AmeriCorps members will assist in delivering financial education services to low- and moderate-income South Florida residents. In this role you will help local residents to set and achieve their financial goals from buying a car, improving credit, starting a business or buying their first homes. In doing so, you are working to help achieve economic inclusion and parity for hundreds of families.
NHSSF is looking for AmeriCorps members to fill a variety of roles. Job titles include:
- Digital Engagement: Outreach & Social Marketing
- Outreach Coordinators: Anchor Institutions
- Outreach Coordinators: “NHSSF In Your Neighborhood”
- Community Pathways Coordinator
- Economic Mobility Facilitators
Find more about each position by tapping on the tabs below
AmeriCorps members received numerous benefits, including:
- Living allowance, up to $16,502 (based on hours served)
- Professional Development
- Money for college or trade school
- College loan deferment and interest forbearance
- Health Insurance
Eligibility requirements to enroll in AmeriCorps include:
- Be a United States citizen, U.S. national, or a lawful permanent resident alien of the United States
- Be at least 17 years of age
- Have a high school diploma or GED
- Willingness to provide information to complete and undergo a National Service Criminal History Check
To apply, please email a cover letter and resume to EMadmin@nhssf.org. Include the job title you are applying for and your last name in the subject line.
Email Katelyn Rozenbroek, EMC Program Manager, with any questions about these positions at EMadmin@nhssf.org.
Position: Digital Engagement: Outreach & Social Marketing
AmeriCorps Member will utilize social media and other outreach and marketing channels to engage local residents.
Expert in using multiple social media platforms to raise awareness, increase engagement with community members, offer tools, educational materials, and resources.
Member will also work on creating and providing copy for website and program updates. This person will work closely with the NHSSF Marketing Manager.
Qualifications include:
- Excellent writing skills
- Attention to detail
- Creative, pithy and savvy with using information
- Knowledge of multiple social media platforms
- Ability to work quickly with precision
- Interest in social justice with a commitment to working with low income and marginalized communities
- Ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders
To apply, please email a cover letter and resume to EMadmin@nhssf.org. Include the job title you are applying for and your last name in the subject line.
Email Katelyn Rozenbroek, EMC Program Manager, with any questions about these positions at EMadmin@nhssf.org.
Position: Outreach Coordinators: Anchor Institutions
The AmeriCorps Member will work to engage local employers with an emphasis on anchor institutions to allow Members and the NHSSF teaching team to present workshops to employee groups during the work hour. Anchor institutions are large employers such as government agencies, utility companies, universities, and hospitals within the South Florida community.
As NHSSF is located in both Miami-Dade and Broward County, each coordinator will focus partnership efforts in each county, respectively.
Qualifications include:
- Enjoys speaking to large and small groups
- Ability to conduct in person and video-based seminars and lessons
- Excellent speaking/platform skills
- Ability to use PowerPoint and other MS Suite software
- Ability to use video conferencing software, such as Teams or Zoom
- Excellent logistical skills
- Personable and professional
- Timely and reliable
- Must be licensed driver and have access to a car
- Interest in social justice with a commitment to working with low income and marginalized communities
- Ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders
To apply, please email a cover letter and resume to EMadmin@nhssf.org. Include the job title you are applying for and your last name in the subject line.
Email Katelyn Rozenbroek, EMC Program Manager, with any questions about these positions at EMadmin@nhssf.org.
Position: Outreach Coordinators: “NHSSF In Your Neighborhood”
The AmeriCorps Member will work with community-based groups to schedule financial capability sessions/workshops. Community groups can be civic groups, advocacy groups, churches, sororities, fraternities, professional organization, neighborhood associations, other non-profits and community-based organizations.
Coordinators will develop an engagement plan working with the CEO and Economic Mobility Corps program manager, conduct pre-event logistics such as promotion and registration, schedule workshops, and complete post-event tasks such as surveys, thank you notes, follow up to participants or to the organization.
Coordinator will ensure participants are properly tracked in either CounselorMax or ChangeMachine.org. The Coordinator will provide participant reports to supervisor and/or Economic Mobility Corps program manager. The coordinator will collaborate with the Marketing division and social media team to notify the general public of the program. The coordinator will present limited financial capability materials and also distribute materials. The Coordinator will collaborate with NHSSF learning team to deliver content.
Qualifications include:
- Must have strong organizational skills
- Ability to pull information together
- Ability to organize events, seminars, workshops
- Must demonstrate attention to detail
- Must have access to car or able to use public transportation
- In addition to English, must fluently speak Haitian Creole and/or French; and Spanish
- Interest in social justice and social marketing
- Commitment to working with low income and marginalized communities
- Willingness to work in economically distressed areas.
- Ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders
To apply, please email a cover letter and resume to EMadmin@nhssf.org. Include the job title you are applying for and your last name in the subject line.
Email Katelyn Rozenbroek, EMC Program Manager, with any questions about these positions at EMadmin@nhssf.org.
Position: Community Pathways Coordinator
The Community Pathways Coordinator will work with the Home Buyer Education and Financial Capability Manager to establish relationships and a referral system between NHSSF and other financial capability providers. For example, the Pathways Coordinator will establish linkages to free taxpayer services, SCORE, or services that help marginalized communities to become a part of the economic mainstream.
Qualifications include:
- Excellent organizational skills
- Skill with diplomacy
- Enjoys working collaboratively with multiple external and internal stakeholders and partners
- Able to set up and maintain organizational systems
- Ability to collect and organize information and data
- Enjoy working with people. Good customer service skills
- Ability to speak Spanish or Haitian Creole a plus
- Ability to understand multiple social services programs
- Must have access to car or able to use public transportation
- Interest in social justice and social marketing
- Commitment to working with low income and marginalized communities
- Ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders
To apply, please email a cover letter and resume to EMadmin@nhssf.org. Include the job title you are applying for and your last name in the subject line.
Email Katelyn Rozenbroek, EMC Program Manager, with any questions about these positions at EMadmin@nhssf.org.
Position: Economic Mobility Facilitators
As a Facilitator, you are the heart and soul of our Economic Mobility Program. We move residents to prosperity through homeownership and business ownership. To accomplish this, we must collect, review, and analyze documents that help our resident customers to move toward greater economic mobility by improving their credit, reducing debt, and increasing savings and ultimately purchasing a home or launching a business. For some resident customers, prosperity means the peace of making ends meet each month through careful stewardship of economic resources.
In this position, you will work with our housing counselors and with our trainers to encourage/coach customer residents to take the next steps. You will manage customers through a customer management system and monitor as each customer makes measurable strides in improving their economic mobility. In this role, you will learn housing counseling for renters and owners; financial literacy training, financial capability coaching, data management, reporting, the nuts and bolts of credit scoring systems, business and homeownership. You will work with customers in our WOW!—With Ownership Wealth Programs.
This role can qualify you to take the steps into a career as a housing counselor/educator. You will help NHSSF to measurably improve the financial outcomes of nearly 2000 residents annually. You will learn everything you need to know to help others be good stewards of their resources and to be a good steward of your financial resources. You will help to deliver results and the individual and community level.
Qualifications include:
- Commitment to working with low income and marginalized communities
- Keen interest in personal financial management, economic and community development
- Ability to perform basic math
- Attention to detail
- Ability to collect and review documents for completeness
- Ability to review personal data and identify areas of improvement
- Ability to speak diplomatically
- Great customer service skills
- Ability to collaborate with Counselors, Trainers, Marketing
- Ability to use computers, software, and learn new customer tracking software
- Interest in social justice and social marketing
- Commitment to working with low income and marginalized communities
- Ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders
To apply, please email a cover letter and resume to EMadmin@nhssf.org. Include the job title you are applying for and your last name in the subject line.
Email Katelyn Rozenbroek, EMC Program Manager, with any questions about these positions at EMadmin@nhssf.org.
Position: Bookkeeper/Office Manager
Exempt Position Objective: Responsible for office operations, procedures, and resources to facilitate organizational effectiveness and efficiency. This role also provides executive administrative support and dealing with accounts receivable and payable, payroll processing and onboarding new hires as well as support for community building and engagement efforts to strengthen community engagement and awareness.
The bookkeeper perform work, including but not limited to performing work of a diverse character; serving as bookkeeper; purchasing materials and equipment; conducting invoice activities; paying vendors for delivered materials; handling payroll functions; and performing clerical/administrative functions.
Job Type: Full-time
Full Job Description: Click here to download the job description
Send your resume to resume@nhssf.org
*Resumes unaccompanied by a cover letter will not be reviewed. No telephone calls, please.
Position: Loan Originator
Originates first mortgage loans while promoting Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida’s
(NHSSF) throughout the community. Successful candidate will represent NHSSF with real estate agents,
developers, and other community development organizations to expand lending volume. Leads are also
provided internally from NHSSF housing counseling, real estate sales, and housing development activities.
Responsibilities include loan origination and management of loan file through closing, support of down
payment assistance programs, and engagement with NHSSF community development activities.
Job Type: Full-time
Full Job Description: Click here to download the job description
*applicant must posses a current NMLS license for doing business in the State of Florida.
Send your resume to resume@nhssf.org
*Resumes unaccompanied by a cover letter will not be reviewed. No telephone calls, please.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to these positions. This is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.
