We’re looking for someone passionate about housing justice to build understanding of our issues, create materials for our expanding programs, grow our events, and diversify our revenue.
About Housing Action Illinois
Housing Action Illinois is a statewide coalition that has been leading the movement to protect and expand the availability of quality, affordable housing and end homelessness in Illinois for more than 35 years. Our 190+ member organizations include housing counseling agencies, homeless service providers, developers of affordable housing, and policymakers. We bring everyone together to work toward an Illinois where everyone has a stable, good home.
The Performance and Compliance Coordinator will serve with Housing Action Illinois in Chicago, IL. This position is part of the Housing Counseling Corps initiative of Housing Action Corps, an AmeriCorps VISTA program managed by Housing Action Illinois since 2010. Housing Counseling Corps members receive custom training, support, networking, and post-service employment opportunities in the housing counseling field, in addition to the traditional benefits of AmeriCorps VISTA.
Our Housing Action Training Center is the largest provider of housing counseling training based in the Midwest. Since 2015, Housing Action’s training program has educated over 5,000 housing counselors in Illinois and throughout the U.S. The Performance and Compliance Coordinator will develop outreach strategies to promote the housing counseling profession. They will enhance our Housing Counseling Career Path training to encourage individuals to become HUD-certified housing counselors. The VISTA will also enhance our technical assistance and grant management processes to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our Housing Action Counseling Network, which currently supports 35 organizations as a HUD-approved Intermediary.
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about housing justice, interested in communications, and eager to build the capacity of housing counseling organizations throughout Illinois and beyond. Candidate will have strong writing skills, well-organized, and eager to learn, take initiative, and ready to balance a wide variety of projects.
Duties:
- Develop and assess new marketing outreach strategies.
- Enhance our evaluation and engagement processes for training participants.
- Conduct research to identify target audiences.
- Develop tailored marketing outreach, including social media graphics, email newsletters, housing counseling agency spotlights, and marketing toolkits.
- Collect data to evaluate marketing strategies and track information, evaluations, and feedback from training participants to improve awareness of our services and effectiveness of our training program.
Compensation and Benefits:
This is a one-year position. Full-year AmeriCorps members serving in Illinois in 2025–2026 will receive a living allowance of $24,962 per year, distributed biweekly.
Housing Action Illinois will also provide $300 per month as a housing stipend and will provide reimbursement for a monthly transit pass.
Benefits funded by AmeriCorps VISTA include:
- Forbearance/deferment of student loan payments during term of service
- Non-competitive eligibility status for federal jobs
- Healthcare allowance & special enrollment period
- Leave Days: 10 personal & 10 medical
- If Eligible: Relocation payment (50+ miles)
- If Eligible: Child Care Assistance
- After successful completion of the term, the choice of an Education Award ($7,395) or an End-of-Service Cash Stipend ($1,803)
Hybrid:
This position will be remote for 4 days per week and in the office 1 day per week.
To Apply:
Please apply to this position via the AmeriCorps portal; you can find the posting in the portal here.