The Unemployment Information Center is hiring a Housing Counselor. The position entails providing advocacy and assistance to unemployed and lower income persons facing problems with mortgage foreclosure and other programs to aid unemployed and poor people.
The Housing Counselor will work with homeowners through the Philadelphia Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program. S/he will assist with real estate tax foreclosures. S/he will do pre-purchase counseling and reverse mortgage counseling.
The Counselor will assist in involving clients in efforts by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project to win reforms in programs of importance to the unemployed such as foreclosure prevention and other issues as they develop.
Qualifications: Committed to economic justice. Good people skills. Bi-lingual English/ Spanish required. Experience in housing counseling or community organizing would be ideal but not necessary. BA preferred.
Excellent salary, commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits, including fully paid health insurance, dental, eye glass plan, 403(b) pension, liberal holiday and vacation days.
Send resumes to Philadelphia Unemployment Project, 112 N. Broad St 11th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19102, Fax 215-557-6981 or email to Erodriguez@philaup.org.
The Unemployment Information Center is a non-profit HUD approved housing counseling agency.
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