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Health and Welfare Council of Long Island (HWCLI) is partnering with Economic Opportunity Council of Suffolk and Touro Law Center to provide foreclosure prevention services to communities with high numbers of home foreclosures. The Foreclosure Prevention Outreach Worker will work primarily out of HWCLI’s administrative office in Hempstead.

Essential Duties:

• Educate community members on the availability of the Foreclosure Prevention program and the importance of participating in settlement conferences
• Connect community members to appropriate counseling and legal representation
• Serve as a liaison between the community members and those working for EOC of Suffolk as foreclosure prevention specialist
• Collect all appropriate data and provide reports on outreach conducted, number of clients assisted and the outcome for each case
• Conduct door-to-door grass root outreach in the hardest hit communities in Nassau County
• Identify at-risk sub-prime mortgage homeowners and encourage them to seek foreclosure prevention counseling services and free legal counsel
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications, Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelors degree required
• Ability to travel throughout Long Island.
• Exceptional oral and written communications skills – particularly over the telephone
• A self-motivated “details” person with exceptional organizational skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook and web-site database use required
• Experience in community organizing and public speaking preferred
• Team Player with the ability to work collaboratively with a small staff required
• Experience working with not-for-profits
• Bi-lingual preferred

Benefits:

• Compensation is commensurate with experience ($35,000)
• Health Insurance Coverage
• Retirement Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holidays/Vacation/ Sick Time

PLEASE NOTE: This is a full-time, immediately available position.  This is a ONE year grant funded position that will terminate at the end of the grant.

To Apply: Please send cover letter and resume to lgebrem@hwcli.com or fax to 516-483-4794.

HWCLI is a private, not for profit, health and human services planning, research/public education and advocacy organization that serves as the umbrella for public and voluntary agencies serving Long Island's poor and vulnerable individuals and families.