Housing Specialist Intern (Spring 2025) - UNPAID

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Overview

Assist with housing logistics and client services for humanitarian immigrants

You have:

• Organized and detail-oriented
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Some experience with renting, moving, paying bills, operating household appliances
• Some heavy lifting (~50 lbs) during housing set-ups required
• Willingness to transport clients, reliable vehicle, driver's license, and insurance
• Comfortable with Microsoft Office applications and willingness to learn to use new software for data entry
• English fluency, spoken and written is required, proficiency in language(s) spoken by client groups is desired

Learning Objectives:

- The housing specialist intern will develop skills in problem solving, client services, intercultural social work, and housing logistics navigation. - The housing specialist intern will gain US resettlement agency experience in assessing program needs. - The housing specialist intern will learn how to communicate cross-culturally with a diverse population, including how to effectively utilize interpreters. - The housing specialist intern will acquire knowledge of programs and public benefits available to humanitarian immigrants

Responsibilities:

· Assist with various activities such as housing orientations, housing searches and applications, lease signings, and other client-facing services

· Assist with home set up and furniture delivery

· Help coordinate materials needed for housing setup

· Data entry

· Participation in team and staff meetings

· Be able to lift heavy items and stand for a long period of time throughout the day

· Provide equal treatment to all client groups in accordance with the agency's commitment to the dignity of all people

Qualifications · Organized and detail-oriented

· Ability to work independently and as a part of a team

· Some experience with renting, moving, paying bills, operating household appliances

· Some heavy lifting (~50 lbs) during housing set-ups required

· Willingness to transport clients, reliable vehicle, driver’s license, and insurance

· Comfortable with Microsoft Office applications and willingness to learn to use new software for data entry

· English fluency, spoken and written is required, proficiency in language(s) spoken by client groups is desired (especially Dari, Pashto, Spanish, Arabic, Swahili, and/or Kinyarwanda)

This position is unpaid and reports to the Housing & Logistics Coordinator.

*The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlines in the IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti-Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

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Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org