Pay Range: $26.38/hr. - $34.30/hr. | $54,879 - $71,343 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Thursday, March 20, 2025 📅
Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆
This is a grant funded overage position that will extend only to June 2029 unless additional grant funds are received.
A Human Services Coordinator job is available with the City of Fort Worth Neighborhood Services Department/Neighborhood Improvement and Revitalization.
This position will ensure that Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds are dispersed through CDBG-DR program implementation and will be responsible for ensuring quality service delivery and coordinating services. In addition, duties include the ability to work directly with clients and provide case management to applicants applying for home repairs and rehabilitation.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with major course in psychology, Social Work, Sociology or related degree.
- Four (4) years of community services or human services counselling experience, including one (1) year of administrative responsibility.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of accounts payable functions, including invoice processing, reconciling accounts, and ensuring accuracy and adherence to financial protocols.
- Skilled in creating and managing budgets, conducting financial forecasting, and analyzing financial data.
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, including planning, coordinating, tracking progress, and ensuring successful project delivery within deadlines and budget.
- Experience with managing, coordinating, or overseeing housing rehabilitation projects.
- Experience with Federal grants and case management.
- Experience assessing and verifying applicant eligibility, ensuring compliance with program guidelines, eligibility criteria, and regulatory requirements.
The Human Services Coordinator job responsibilities include:
- Implement Federal programs such as Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR).
- Data analysis for grants and projects.
- Compiling and completing reports indicating use of funds, grant compliance and performance.
- Managing the CDBG-DR grant in Neighborly Software.
- Providing empathetic and compassionate customer service to program participants.
- Supporting and training staff to administer program.
- Communicating decisions, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures to staff, clients or customers verbally and in writing, clearly and effectively.
- Execute contracts with internal and external partners.
Working Conditions:
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking and repetitive motions.
Physical Demands:
Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.
