Posting Open Until Filled

Salary Range: $50,668 - $67,594

General Description and Classification Standards:

Supervision Received:

The Compliance Specialist and Senior Compliance Specialist report to the Entitlement Assistant Manager, Compliance (LEAD). Compliance Specialist General Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide staff and service providers with updated grant guidance and regulations

• Ensure proper record keeping of notices, policy alerts, and guidance

• Assist with the development and implementation of programmatic and fiscal policies, guides, and manuals

• Provide technical assistance and training on compliance requirements for staff and service providers

• Support the development of a programmatic training curriculum for staff and service providers 

Compliance Specialist – Inspector

• Complete annual HQS, Special inspections, and reinspection for the City’s Mod Rehab units

• Communicate changes to regulations, best practices, notices, etc., promptly to management and all impacted parties

• Manage the review of Relocation plans and other compliance with the URA process in collaboration with Programs

Competitive Compliance and Section 8

• Provide staff and service providers with updated federal guidance and regulations

• Ensure proper record-keeping of federal notices, policy alerts, and guidance

• Support the development of a training curriculum for staff and service providers

• Research competitive grants for city departments on grant sites such as grants.gov, grantsolutions.com, justgrants.gov, etc.

• Maintain metrics of competitive grant applications shared with city departments, applied for, and awarded for quarterly tracking purposes

• Provide writing support for departments when requested

• Maintain grant portfolio and participate in grant writing for department needs

• Assist the section 8 team with writing needs

• Assist section 8 by completing EIV and LSO checks

• Communicates changes to regulations, best practices, notices, etc., promptly to management and all impacted parties 

• Schedule and complete annual recertifications for Mod Rehab tenants

• Coordinate with property managers to ensure accurate lease end dates

• Maintains Mod Rehab wait lists for all properties

• Share with tenants opportunities to increase income

• Communicates changes to regulations, best practices, notices, etc., promptly to management and all impacted parties

Key Performance Measures:

• # Contracts monitored and sampled (related to responsible programs)

• # Of outstanding monitoring findings (related to responsible programs)

• # Of unresolved complaints (related to responsible programs)

• # Of training conducted for staff and service providers (related to responsible programs)

• # Of program policies, guides, and manuals created or updated (related to responsible programs)

• # Of contract templates created or updated (related to responsible programs)

Training and Development Expectations:

• Department Policies and Processes

• Program Specific Curriculums (based upon responsible programs)

• HOPWA

• CDBG 

• ESG 

• HOME

System Access Expectations:

• ATLCloud (Oracle)

• HUD IDIS

• HUD DRGR

• HUD Exchange Account

• HMIS

• Office 365 – Microsoft Teams and SharePoint

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements: 

• 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. 

Essential Capabilities & Work Environment 

Physical, lifting, and sensory capabilities are required to perform the job successfully under typical environmental conditions associated with employment