FSRI - Housing Navigator, Lucy's Hearth Job at The City of Providence, Middletown, RI

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  • The City of Providence
  • Middletown, RI

Job Description

FSRI is always looking for candidates that want to make a positive impact on the community we serve in!


Position Summary:  Responsible for partnering with families and providing supportive assistance with housing. This includes negotiating with landlords, providing housing stabilization services, and teaching skills for housing sustainability, such as budgeting and tenant rights and responsibilities.  Involvement with families is by family choice.  The length of involvement is different with each family as the Housing Navigator role is to empower the family toward self-sufficiency.   

Qualifications:

  • Knowledge and competencies needed to effectively support parents or caregiver with housing needs.
  • Knowledge of the state housing system and related area resources. 
  • Experience working with families at-risk for involvement with child mental health, child welfare, or juvenile corrections systems preferred.
  • Driver’s license and vehicle required.
  • Must be able to work a flexible schedule including evenings and weekends as needed.
  • English/Spanish fluency is a plus.
  • Bilingual skills are compensated by an additional 6%, above base pay.

Physical Requirements: This position requires residential and community visits, employees in this position must have the ability to:

  • Travel to and from clients’ residence, community locations and office site, which could include using walkways, stairs and/or elevators.
  • Ability to lift up to 20lbs.
  • Ability to communicate by voice, use sight and hearing.

Don’t meet every single requirement?Here at FSRI, we’re dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about one of our career opportunities, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be the perfect fit for this or another opportunity!

We offer our employees a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental and work life benefits.
Only together can we continue to grow and make a difference in our communities.
Join our FAMILY today!

About Us:  Dynamic and innovative, Family Service of RI (FSRI) is a statewide organization with a 130 year track record of success in improving the health and well-being of children and families all across our state.  We are passionate about our mission to advance equity, opportunity and hope across ALL communities – we succeed by lifting others.  FSRI’s diverse and inclusive teams – working across Health, Healing, Home and Hope pillars, are experts in their fields – every day designing and delivering cutting edge strategies to save and improve lives.  We provide services statewide, and currently operate in 3 locations in Providence; and in 4 locations in East Providence, Smithfield and North Smithfield.


Family Service of Rhode Island provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.


FSRI determines pay based on a candidate's relevant and transferable experience, certifications, licenses, degree and language ability.  

Job Tags

Full time, Local area, Work from home, Flexible hours, Afternoon shift,

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