Job Posting Open Until Filled
Salary Range:$51,035.56 - $75,000.00
Hiring Department: Department of Grants and Community Development
The Compliance Specialist (Fair Housing) supports DGCD’s responsibilities in funding applicants who provide safe, decent, affordable housing and economic opportunities, free from discrimination. This role ensures compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations for programs administered by the Department of Grants & Community Development.
The Compliance Specialist (Fair Housing) provides subject matter expertise on fair housing, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and disability laws; works on fair housing policies, practices, and compliance; ensures timely processing of reasonable accommodations requests and responses to any allegations of non-compliance with civil rights laws. This role also leads coordination and implementation of proactive efforts to affirmatively further fair housing; monitors compliance with civil rights laws; coordinates trainings to ensure all DGCD staff and subrecipients are aware, knowledgeable, and compliant with civil rights laws; and advises on changes or proposed changes to laws and regulations that may impact DGCD’s fair housing duties.
Fair Housing and Compliance
· Assist in the development and applicable revisions to DGCDs civil rights and reasonable accommodations policy
· Review tenant selection criteria for construction projects prior to lease up
· Monitor compliance with the DGCD civil rights and reasonable accommodation policies
o In that capacity, coordinate DGCD compliance with fair housing laws, Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act, and the American with Disabilities Act (ADA)
· Coordinate the response to reasonable accommodation complaints for applicants and/or participants federally funded by DGCD
· Investigate, collect data and facts, interview involved parties, and prepare DGCD responses to housing discrimination complaints; work directly with the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs and other parties to resolve filed complaints.
· Work with property management and maintenance staff to ensure implementation of approved reasonable accommodation and/or modifications occur in a timely manner
· Monitor subrecipients’ compliance with reasonable accommodation requests through limited scope monitoring
· Develop and institutionalize the tracking, status, and storage of- reasonable accommodation/modification requests and civil rights complaints
Training
· Serve as subject matter resource for staff and subrecipients
· Build DGCD’s compliance capacity through clear communication, information sharing, and mentoring DGCD staff
· Identify areas of non-compliance; prepare detailed summaries of findings with supporting documentation and notify Compliance Management; Remedy non-compliance
· Coordinate, conduct and track Fair Housing, Reasonable Accommodation, VAWA and other related staff and subrecipient training
· Update training curriculum and provide follow-up training as needed
Reporting
· Develop and implement processes and procedures for tracking, documenting, and reporting civil rights work
· Prepare and distribute annual summary of reasonable accommodation and modification requests for DGCD
· Coordinate response to reporting requirements related to fair housing, Section 504, and/or ADA.
· Maintain confidentiality
· Fulfill all duties and responsibilities with a high level of integrity, honesty, and adherence to agency policies and rules
· Establish and maintain effective professional working relationships with co-workers, management, partner agencies, and the community stakeholders
A bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Relevant work experience with government entitlement programs and mortgage underwriting experience, loan servicing and intake, credit counseling, banking, and federal program management experience
• A degree can be substituted with relevant work experience in federal program management, mortgage underwriting experience, loan servicing and intake, credit counseling, banking, and federal program management experience.
Preferred Education & Experience:
• Master’s degree in a related field
• At least three years of direct experience in federal grants management related to HOPWA, HOME, ESG, CDBG, Section 8 Moderate Rehab, underwriting, and fiscal management.
The City of Atlanta remains a transportation hub, not just for the country but also for the world: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is one of the nations busiest in daily passenger flights. Direct flights to Europe, South America, and Asia have made metro Atlanta easily accessible to the more than 1,000 international businesses that operate here and the more than 50 countries that have representation in the city through consulates, trade offices, and chambers of commerce. The city has emerged as a banking center and is the world headquarters for 13 Fortune 500 companies.
Atlanta is the Capital city of the southeast, a city of the future with strong ties to its past. The old in new Atlanta is the soul of the city, the heritage that enhances the quality of life in a contemporary city. In the turbulent 60's, Atlanta was "the city too busy to hate." And today, in the 21st Century, Atlanta is the "city not too busy to care".
For more than four decades Atlanta has been linked to the civil rights movement. Civil Rights leaders moved forward, they were the visionaries who saw a new south, a new Atlanta. They believed in peace. They made monumental sacrifices for that peace. And because of them Atlanta became a fast-pace modern city which opened its doors to the 1996 Olympics.
Die-hard Southerners view Atlanta as the heart of the Old Confederacy; Atlanta has become the best example of the New South, a fast-paced modern city proud of its heritage.
In the past two decades Atlanta has experienced unprecedented growth -- the official city population remains steady, at about 420,000, but the metro population has grown in the past decade by nearly 40%, from 2.9 million to 4.1 million people. A good measure of this growth is the ever-changing downtown skyline, along with skyscrapers constructed in the Midtown, Buckhead, and outer perimeter (fringing I-285) business districts.
