CDBG-DR Housing Specialist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $103.5k - $130.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Michael Baker International

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Defense • Logistics

Michael Baker International is a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, specializing in design, planning, architecture, environmental management, construction, and program management. The company serves U. S. federal, state, and municipal governments, as well as foreign allied governments and various commercial clients. With more than 3,000 employees across nearly 100 locations, Michael Baker fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration to address challenges faced by clients and communities nationwide.

📋 Description

• Support implementation of homeowner rehabilitation, reconstruction, replacement, reimbursement, elevation, mitigation, and related housing recovery activities. • Review applicant and property records for completeness and consistency, including ownership, occupancy, primary residence, income, household composition, national objective, disaster impact, duplication of benefits, and other program requirements. • Coordinate intake, eligibility, award calculation, environmental review, inspections, scope development, construction, payment, compliance, and closeout milestones. • Prepare case summaries, determination support, correspondence, notices, checklists, exception requests, and management briefing materials. • Maintain complete, accurate, timely, and audit-ready records in approved case management, document management, grants management, and reporting systems. • Monitor assigned cases or portfolios for aging, missing documentation, dependencies, risks, service-level commitments, and required follow-up. • Explain program requirements and next steps clearly to applicants, contractors, client representatives, and internal teams without making unauthorized commitments. • Identify and escalate policy ambiguity, inconsistent documentation, potential duplication of benefits, fraud indicators, environmental concerns, applicant complaints, construction issues, and unsupported determinations. • Coordinate with case management, policy, environmental, legal, inspections, construction, finance, data, technology, and quality-control personnel. • Support quality reviews, monitoring, audits, appeals, complaints, records requests, corrective actions, and grant closeout. • Follow maker-checker controls, approval thresholds, privacy, information security, records retention, conflict-of-interest, and timekeeping requirements. • Assist with program startup, testing, training, workflow documentation, surge operations, and continuous improvement. • Perform other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned to meet project, client, and organizational needs.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in housing, public administration, planning, business, construction, social sciences, emergency management, or a related field preferred; directly relevant experience may be substituted for the degree requirement. • At least three years of housing, community development, disaster recovery, grants management, construction administration, case management, eligibility, or related program experience. • Demonstrated ability to review complex files, reconcile information, document conclusions, manage deadlines, and communicate professionally with diverse stakeholders. • Ability to apply written policy consistently, protect personally identifiable information, and identify matters requiring supervisory or technical review. • Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and the ability to learn client and company systems. • Direct CDBG-DR, CDBG-MIT, CDBG, HOME, FEMA, HUD-funded homeowner housing, or comparable disaster recovery experience preferred. • Experience supporting rehabilitation, reconstruction, reimbursement, elevation, mitigation, or replacement housing programs from application through closeout preferred. • Experience with eligibility, income verification, duplication of benefits, award calculation, environmental review, inspections, construction draws, or applicant appeals preferred. • Experience using case management, document management, grants management, inspection, GIS, or reporting platforms preferred. • Consulting experience supporting government preferred. • Successful applicants may be subject to pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance • 401k Retirement Plan • Health Savings Account (HSA) • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) • Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability • Professional and personal development • Generous paid time off • Commuter and wellness benefits

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