About The Position (Grant-funded until June 30, 2024)
Acts as a primary staff contact for landlords/property owners through a strategic landlord engagement approach, conflict resolution, and advocacy. Provides plans, implements, and reports on landlord engagement programming and activities at a professional level. Assumes ownership of all facets of landlord engagement.

Selection Process
Applicants whose education, training and experience most closely meet the needs of the position may be invited to participate in a selection process to include a panel interview and an assessment exercise. Successful candidates will receive a post-offer, pre-employment background screening to include:

• Fingerprinting
• Criminal Background screening for the past 7 years
• Motor Vehicle Department Records Check
• Drug Screening

The City of Scottsdale offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• 12 Paid Holidays, which includes 1 Floating Holiday
• Vacation Accrual; starts at 10.3 hours/month
• Sick Leave Accrual; 8 hours/month
• Medical (which includes behavioral health coverage), Dental and Vision Benefits
• City Paid Basic Life Insurance (equal to one times employee annual salary); option of Supplemental Life Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement; $2,500/year
• Participation in the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS) Defined benefit plan with mandatory employer and employee contributions currently at 12.17% which includes a Long-Term Disability benefit
• Supplemental Retirement Plans through Nationwide; 457 and Employer contribution
• Pet Insurance
• Bilingual pay compensation

Education and Experience

• An Associate’s Degree from an accredited educational institution.
• No experience necessary.
• Preferred:
  • A Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Public Administration, Marketing, Communications, Urban and Regional Planning, Sociology, or a related field from an accredited educational institution.
  • One year of direct experience in Housing First, Rapid Re-Housing, Housing Choice Voucher, Fair Housing, Landlord/Tenant Protection Act, or similar programs serving homeless, difficult to house, or low-moderate income individuals.
  • Two years of rental housing industry experience.

Licensing, Certifications and Other Requirements

• Must possess and maintain a valid, unrestricted driver's license with no major citations within the past 39 months prior to the start date.
• Every person employed by the City of Scottsdale shall reside in the State of Arizona during his or her active employment by the City, regardless of whether the employee is approved to remote work.

Other pertinent licenses and/or certifications may be required of some positions depending on division/department/service assignment.

Performs duties and responsibilities commensurate with assigned functional area within a department(s) which may include, but are not limited to, any combination of the following:

• Develops a comprehensive outreach strategy to maximize landlord participation in the City’s various housing voucher programs.
• Develops networking relationships with local partners to include apartment associations, housing coalitions, realtor associations, tenant councils and other community partners with an emphasis on recruiting additional property owners willing to lease their properties to participants in the City’s rental assistance programs.
• Advocates on behalf of Scottsdale Housing Agency (SHA) clients with high barriers to secure and maintain housing.
• Administers Landlord Incentives and Damage Claim programming and budgets.
• Creates and maintains a records system of available rental properties and tracks leads, contacts, and participating properties to include a mechanism for regularly updating available unit inventory (vacancies).
• Works with diverse audiences to include employees, managers, nonprofit agencies, property managers, real estate agents/brokers, landlords and private property owners, rental assistance recipients, and the public.
• Proficiently perform computerized word processing, spreadsheets, comprehension, summarizing and writing/editing.

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position or that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Most work is performed in a City office environment, with the ability to work remotely (if applicable).
• Operate a variety of standard office equipment including computer, telephone, calculator, copy, fax machines requiring continuous and repetitive arm, hand, and eye movement.
• Travel to/from meetings at various locations.

PLEASE NOTE: Years of experience are based on a work schedule of 2,080 hours per year for full-time positions and 1,040 hours per year for part-time positions, and while work experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis, depending upon the job classification, education may not be substituted for work experience.
When advised reasonable accommodations will be made in order for an “otherwise qualified applicant" with a disability to participate in any phase of the recruitment process. Please contact Human Resources to request an accommodation. Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation by contacting HR Receptionist at (480) 312-2491. Requests should be made 24 hours in advance or as early as possible to allow time to arrange the accommodation. For TTY users, the Arizona Relay Service (1-800-367-8939) may contact HR Receptionist at (480) 312-2491.

This position description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the position change. (Italic)This position description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the position change.

QUESTION 1

Do you have a valid driver's license (not expired or suspended/revoked)?

QUESTION 2

Do you have any of the following restrictions on your driver's license? Please note that this does not include vision correction.

QUESTION 3

Do you have an Associate's degree from an accredited educational institution?

QUESTION 4

Do you have a Bachelor's degree in Business or Public Administration, Marketing, Communications, Urban and Regional Planning, Sociology, or a related field from an accredited educational institution?

QUESTION 5

Please describe your professional experience in working with Housing and Urban Development rental assistance programming. NOTE: Employers mentioned here must be shown in the Work Experience section of the application. Do not state "See resume" in lieu of responding to this question. If you don't have this experience, please write "None."

QUESTION 6

Please describe any professional experience you have in the rental housing industry. NOTE: Employers mentioned here must be shown in the Work Experience section of the application. Do not state "See resume" in lieu of responding to this question. If you don't have this experience, please write "None."

* Required Question