HOUSING COUNSELOR, Housing

• Determine continued eligibility and assistance levels to clients receiving the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher subsidy.  
• Maintain and manage assigned caseload, ensuring compliance with HUD regulations, statutory requirements, policies and procedures, and performance rating system.  
• Assist clients in obtaining decent, safe, and sanitary housing and maintain working relationship with participants, property owners, and community agencies.  
• Conduct effective interviews and calculate and determine reasonable rents, utility reimbursements and subsidy payments.

Grant funded.

BENEFITS
  
 Tarrant County employees enjoy superior health, retirement, and insurance benefits & 
   13 County Holidays
    
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    http://www.tarrantcounty.com/en/human-resources/employee-benefits.html

1. Interviews Section 8 participants to determine continued eligibility for housing assistance and portability
2. Facilitates the verification process for collecting information relevant to program eligibility including, but not limited to, employment, welfare and social security benefits, background checks, and asset verification
3. Accurately maintains participant data in computer tracking system
4. Maintains and manages participant records and files
5. Conducts client and owner briefings, providing information related to program participation, unit eligibility, program requirements, and HUD regulations and fair housing standards
6. Calculates rent for housing subsidy, utility reimbursement and repayment agreements
7. Initiates and maintains Housing Assistance Payment contracts
8. Initiates the termination process for non-compliance with program guidelines, prepares file summary and case analysis for informal hearings
9. Researches, investigates and resolves (when possible) client and property owner complaints
10. Prepares computer generated performance and program reports
11. Coordinates and follows-up appropriately with Housing Quality Standard (HQS) inspections
12. Analyzes rent reasonableness assessments
13. Performs other duties as assigned

NOTE: YOU MUST FILL OUT THE WORK HISTORY and EDUCATION SECTIONS OF APPLICATION TO SHOW YOU HAVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION AS REQUIRED BY HIRING DEPARTMENT OR BE DISQUALIFIED.

TO APPLY, must have a Bachelor's degree or higher.
OR
TO APPLY, must have an Associate's degree  Two (2) full-time years of public housing or community service agency work experience.
OR
TO APPLY, must have a High School diploma or GED  Four (4) full-time years of public housing or community service agency work experience.

TO APPLY, must have a valid driver license.  Note:  A Texas Driver License is required to hold the position.
  
Tarrant County will conduct background checks on new hires that will include a criminal background check related to convictions and deferred adjudications in the past Seven years and may include credit reports, motor vehicle records, employment records and educational attainment. A conviction or deferred adjudication is not an automatic bar to employment. Each case is considered individually. While performing the duties of this position, the incumbent is regularly required to sit, walk, climb, stoop, lift, push, and pull. Incumbent is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions, wet and/or humid conditions and extreme temperatures. Possibility of working with unpredictable and potentially violent clients. Exposure to communicable and contagious diseases possible.

Salary : $23 - $26