Job Summary: Accompany individuals experiencing homelessness in their transition toward stable housing solutions, promoting autonomy and integration. Key Highlights: 1. Innovative, person-centered, and evidence-based role 2. Promotes autonomy and improves quality of life 3. Fosters community integration and deinstitutionalization **Workplace**: *Calle Guitérrez Herreros 52, 33402, Avilés* **Program**: *Adaptation and pilot implementation of the Housing Navigator professional figure as Housing Navigator* **Professional Group:** *1* **Working Hours**: *38.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday* **Gross Monthly Salary**: *1933.28 € (14 payments)* **Gross Annual Salary:** *27065.89 €* **Contract Type:** *Indefinite* **Start Date:** *Immediate* **Probation Period:** *6 months* **Hierarchical Reporting:***State Housing First Directorate* **Functional Reporting:***Technical Manager* **JOB MISSION** Accompany individuals experiencing homelessness in their transition from emergency shelters or temporary accommodations to stable, safe, and affordable housing solutions. The Housing Navigator role drives an innovative, person-centered, and evidence-based intervention that promotes autonomy, improved quality of life, deinstitutionalization, and community integration. Its objective is to maximize opportunities for accessing and maintaining independent housing by activating formal and informal networks, personalizing support, and mobilizing community resources. This role is critical to ensuring the effective right to housing, strengthening inter-institutional coordination, and generating useful evidence for developing public policies aimed at eradicating homelessness. **FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION (NON-EXHAUSTIVE):** * Intensive support during the transition from temporary accommodations to affordable, stable, and community-integrated residential alternatives, supporting both initial housing search and subsequent transition to housing options aligned with each individual’s personalized autonomy and emancipation plan. * Prepare the individual for housing entry (expectations, basic cohabitation norms, key management, utilities, registration), reinforcing their autonomous capacity to manage these aspects. * Provide support during early adaptation phases (housing maintenance routines, responsible use of shared spaces, neighbor relations), progressively encouraging the individual to assume increasing responsibilities. * Mediation with housing stock and community (community integration) * Contact and negotiate with landlords, real estate agencies, institutions, and administrations to facilitate housing offers suited to individuals’ profiles and autonomy projects. * Mediate conflicts with neighbors or cohabitants (noise, cleanliness, use of shared areas), safeguarding housing continuity and community integration. * Identify early risks (rent arrears, recurring conflicts, agreement breaches, housing deterioration) and activate preventive responses to avoid re-entry into institutional resources. * Coordinate with the individual’s reference professional (social work/education, psychology, etc.) to align social and housing support, aiding deinstitutionalization and independent community living. * Work with the individual on basic housing-related financial management (monthly budgeting, rental subsidies, debt management, expense prioritization) as a cornerstone of their autonomy. * Facilitate the individual’s use of normalized neighborhood resources (health centers, community activities, neighborhood associations, cultural and sports facilities) to strengthen community integration and reduce dependence on institutional services. * Contribute to the evaluation and systematization of the pilot (autonomy, deinstitutionalization, integration) * Systematically record basic data according to the proposed evaluation system. * Participate in reflective spaces with coordination, other entities, services, and exchange events to refine the role, analyzing which tasks most effectively contribute to autonomy, deinstitutionalization, and community integration. **BENEFITS**: * Flexible start and end times. * Partial remote work * For full annual working hours: 60 hours of discretionary time * 23 working days of vacation * Opportunities for work-life balance. * Career and professional development opportunities. * PC and Smartphone with access to M365\ environment. * Participation in social innovation, digital transformation, and agility initiatives. ### **Minimum Requirements** **ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS** * University degree in Social Sciences (preferably Social Education or Social Work). **PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE** * At least 1 year of direct intervention experience with homeless individuals or those experiencing severe residential exclusion, including specific work on autonomy and transitions out of residential resources. * Experience in housing search and engagement with landlords, property managers, or residential services, including mediation in community conflicts. * One year of experience in community-based or proximity work promoting community integration and participation in neighborhood networks. **OTHER REQUIREMENTS** * Proficiency in Microsoft Office and database applications. **PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS** * Training related to the National Security Framework. * Equivalent training or experience in homelessness and residential exclusion, with a focus on autonomy and deinstitutionalization. * Equivalent training or experience in housing-centered intervention models (Housing First / Housing Led, community-based residential resources, social support in housing). * Equivalent training or experience in community/neighborhood mediation and conflict management related to cohabitation. * Equivalent training or experience in social support and community integration. * Knowledge of the social services system, housing policies, rental assistance programs, and local community resources. * Practical knowledge of the local rental market, public/social housing stock, and residential resources supporting autonomy and deinstitutionalization pathways. Experience in pilot or social innovation projects where impact on autonomy, community integration, or shifts in care models has been evaluated * **COMPETENCIES** * Commitment to the organization and strategic vision * Rigor, efficiency, and quality * Flexibility and adaptability to change * Teamwork * Organizational capacity * Proactive and problem-solving capacity