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    Position: Tenant Rights Counselor
    Reports to: MSROC Program Manager
    Compensation: $23-$25 per hour, commensurate with experience. Full-time, non-exempt
    position(possibility of remote or reduced/flexible work schedules). Benefits include medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance and optional retirement, flexible spending account, and commuter benefits.

    Deadline: Immediately interviewing on a rolling basis until position is filled.


    About the Organization:
    Founded in 1982, Dolores Street Community Services (DSCS) is a multi-issue, multi-strategy nonprofit organization, with almost 150 employees and an annual budget of $14.5 million, based in San Francisco's Mission District. Our mission is to nurture individual wellness and cultivate collective power among low-income and immigrant communities to create a more just society. We provide direct services to meet immediate needs, as well as affect broader change by engaging in advocacy and community organizing, working on a wide range of issues-from homelessness, to housing, to immigration, to employment. We believe deeply that these issues are interconnected, and that they must be addressed in solidarity to create a more just society. To learn more about our organization's model and impact, we encourage you to watch the following video.


    Position Objective:
    The Mission SRO Collaborative (MSROC), a partnership with Lyon Martin Health Services/Women's Community Clinic, the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, and the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition (SFADC), organizes with SRO (Single Room Occupancy) hotel tenants throughout the Mission to protect SRO housing stock, improve living conditions, and fight for housing justice.
    DSCS seeks a Full-Time Tenant Rights Counselor to provide counseling to low-income tenants across the city with issues involving their tenant rights and housing justice. This counselor will carry a caseload of tenants, prepare formal documents to assist tenants in on-going conversations with property owners/landlords, perform informative workshops, conduct outreach on an as-needed
    basis, and other duties, as assigned. This position will work as part of the MSROC team and represent the agency in some citywide collaboratives and coalitions.


    Responsibilities:

    • Perform intake on and provide housing counseling to low-income tenants (including monolingual. Spanish-speaking) by assessing housing problems, answering questions, and providing relevant information.

    • Provide warm referrals to other programs for financial assistance, counseling, or other supportive services based on the tenants'/clients' individual needs.

    • Advocate for families and individuals by coordinating with outside agencies in regard to code enforcement and general eviction prevention support in an effort to help tenants housing stability.

    • Coordinate and facilitate educational Know-Your-Rights workshops, leadership development programs, and peer-to-peer outreach and preventive programming.

    • Participate in advocacy and organizing campaigns related to housing justice, including organizing tenants to choose winnable goals, and strategize to win concrete victories.

    • Represent MSROC in housing rights coalitions and coordinate collaborative work with other participating organizations and other coalitions that work in related issues.

    • Ensure information regarding a client's housing situation is updated in the database in a timely manner, and all supporting documents are filed in accordance with DSCS policies and procedures.

    • Help plan and ensure tenant participation at weekly and monthly meetings, legal clinics, community events, mobilizations, or other activities by conducting outreach and timely follow-up.

    • Conduct tenant outreach and provide educational materials to individuals and families on an as-needed basis.

    • Work with other DSCS staff to coordinate MSROC tenant input and support on other community-related issues such as land use, civic engagement, immigrant rights, and economic justice.

    • Attend weekly/monthly meetings with supervisors to report on outreach, problem-solve, and plan upcoming work.

    Other Organizational Duties:

    • Conduct business in accordance with the DSCS Employee Handbook, exercising sound judgment and serving the best interests of the agency and the community.

    • Work within the framework of the agency's mission, vision, values, theory of change, and organization's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, restorative justice, trauma informed work, and language justice.

    • Commit yourself to treating each community member with respect and dignity.


    • Perform other duties as assigned.


    Desired Skills:

    • Background in and passion for working with low-income and immigrant a round issues of affordable housing, land use, and/or immigrant & worker rights; familiarity with these issues in the Mission District and San Francisco, highly desired. Ability to inspire
    others with respect to the agency's mission, vision, & values, commitment to equity and social justice, and intersectional work, required.

    • Commitment to a larger vision for immigrant, housing, and economic justice.

    • Ability to develop a thorough understanding of housing and tenant rights and protocols.

    • Ability to interact with a wide range of clients with cultural humility, kindness, and patience.

    • Ability to assume responsibility quickly and work independently and as part of a team.

    • Ability to use good judgment, multitask and meet deadlines.

    • Ability to read, understand, and apply language from manuals, policies, technical procedures, and instructions.

    • Ideal candidates will have experience working and building trust with low-income immigrant
    families/individuals, including at least two years' experience as an organizer, tenant rights advocate, and/or paralegal.

    • Ability to speak, read, and write in Spanish is required.

    • Willingness to work some evenings and weekends to design a flexible schedule


    Dolores Street Community Services is an equal-opportunity employer which values lived experience and seeks applicants of the
    greatest diversity possible. We encourage people of color, women, older people, members of the LGBTQ community, and
    individuals with disabilities, including HIV and community members who grew up in the Mission District. Pursuant to the SF
    Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.



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