Vice President of Housing, Scattered Site Housing

Who We Are:CAMBA is a community of staff volunteers clients donors neighbors and partners who work together to build an inclusive New York City where all children and adults have access to the resources and supports they need to thrive. We take a comprehensive approach by offering more than 180 integrated programs in: Education & Youth Development Family Support Job Training & Employment Support Services Health Housing and Legal Services. We reach almost 80000 individuals and families including almost 13000 serves a diverse cross section of New Yorkers from new mothers in Brownsville to job seekers in the Rockaways. More than half of our clients are immigrants and refugees from around the globe. Over 85% of our families are living in poverty reflecting the challenges faced by nearly 1.7 million New Yorkers today.

The Scattered Site Housing Program (SSHP) is a community based permanent supportive housing program for HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) clients. All units are leased in the agencys name. Seventy-five percent of the units are for single individuals and twenty-five percent are for families. Both case management and housing maintenance services are addition clients receive partial financial assistance with their utility bills. Clients with income other than Public Assistance must pay thirty percent of their households income to the program as rent.

Program Description

Our supportive housing programs include Scattered Site Housing Programs (SSHP) and Emergency transitional Housing (ETHP). These programs provide hundreds of units of housing in the community and SRO type housing in our 24 hour congregate residences to individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS other chronic health conditions mental illness and/or substance use disorders.

Our programs provide case management services to ensure that clients are connected to and maintain primary health care; secure behavioral health care when needed; and are connected to other services that support them in becoming and remaining permanently housed. CAMBAs holistic approach includes providing services to family members as needed.

The programs also provide operational support including but not limited to assistance with moving; setting up utility services; and apartment repairs.

Position: Vice President of Housing

Reports To: Executive Vice President

Location: 19 Winthrop Street Brooklyn

What The Vice President of Housing Does:

The person filling this position is expected to: (1) Oversee Operations: Direct and coordinate the daily operations of one or more departments and/or a major division of CAMBA; (2) Support Organizational Strategy: Assist the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer in developing and implementing organizational policies procedures and long-term strategic goals; and (3) Represent CAMBA: Serve as a key representative in meetings and negotiations with funders external agencies and community stakeholders.

• Maintain professional relationships with clients and client confidentiality.
• Practice Universal Precautions and follow standard Protocol & Procedures.
• Comply with all Federal State City and CAMBA security and privacy polices intended to protect the security and privacy of individually identifiable health information.
• Understand all aspects of contract requirements and communicate this understanding to staff.
• Ensure that all goals targets and performance outcomes are met on a monthly/cycle basis.
• Ensure that clients receive professional appropriate and quality services from staff.
• Clearly communicate both CAMBAs and funders policies requirements guidelines and program performance targets to staff.
• Recruit interview and hire qualified staff in consultation with the Human Resources department.
• Train staff in program responsibilities processes and procedures and ensure that all staff meet contract requirements in their daily work.
• Conduct regular staff meetings.
• Communicate with peers on issues related to client progress and best program practices.
• Work with staff to set realistic weekly and monthly performance targets in accordance with contract requirements.
• Organize onsite and off-site training opportunities for professional development of staff.
• Coordinate and supervise all day-to-day activities of direct reporting staff.
• Work with staff on programmatic improvements.
• Ensure that any disciplinary action taken regarding staff follows CAMBAs disciplinary policy and procedure.
• Prepare performance appraisals for direct reporting staff.
• In consultation with CAMBAs Human Resources Department and the Executive Vice President make firing recommendations.
• Prepare contract reports and statistical information for both CAMBA management and funder use.
• Ensure the accuracy and timeliness of all staff weekly/monthly/quarterly/semester/annual reports.
• Complete program forms and reports for the agencys finance payroll and human resources departments as required.
• Confer with and make recommendations to the Executive Vice-President and the Chief Administrative Officer regarding programmatic personnel and organizational matters.
• Immediately report to the Executive Vice-President and Chief Administrative Officer any monitoring visits funder notifications; significant events; or any incident that might subject CAMBA to liability.
• Identify new funding opportunities.
• Participate in the grant writing process and other funding initiatives.
• Prepare program modifications; monitoring contract spending and work with fiscal staff on budget modifications as needed.
• Develop and implement Quality Assurance measures to ensure quality service delivery to clients.
• Conduct periodic internal file review and implement Quality Assurance measures as needed to ensure quality service delivery to clients and that charts are appropriately and clearly organized.
• Analyze program and demographic data to make programmatic improvements.
• Develop and maintain key community partnerships.
• Attend and represent the organization at staff funder and external agency meetings as required.
• Review and sign time sheets.
• Tasks may be modified expanded and/or assigned over time.

Minimum Education/Experience Required:

• Masters degree in social work (MSW)
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)

Other Requirements:

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in housing and contract administration.
• Experience in program and staff management with strong leadership and compliance skills to ensure high-quality client services and support.
• Knowledge about understanding of and ability to work closely with persons Chronically Homeless and or living with HIV/AIDS and related issues.
• Excellent written & verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft Office Suite products.

Compensation: $130000 annually

Status: Full-time (35 hours per week)
Benefits: CAMBA offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance dental insurance 403(b) retirement plan with employer match paid time off (vacation personal and sick time) and paid holidays.

CAMBA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace. People of color people with disabilities and lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people are encouraged to apply. We consider all applicants without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity gender expression national origin age disability socio-economic status marital or veteran status pregnancy status or sexual orientation.