Placement Coordinator

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, widely recognized as one of New York’s premier human services providers, is a settlement house founded in 1894 that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated services—social, educational, health, housing, mental health, nutritional and fitness which significantly improve the lives of 16,000 people in need each year, ages 3 to 103, on the East Side of Manhattan.

Our clients include older adults, unhoused and formerly unhoused adults, children and families, recent immigrants, disabled persons, adult learners and more. For more information on Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, please visit lenoxhill.organd check us out on Facebookor Instagram.

Located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in the historic mixed-used Park Avenue Armory, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House’s Women’s Mental Health Shelter is a 24-hour program that addresses the critical issues facing 80 homeless women, age 45 and over, who have histories of mental illness. Through a comprehensive continuum of care and programming that includes social work services, medical, nursing and psychiatric care, specialized peer support, housing placement, benefits assistance, arts and recreation and food and nutrition programs, our talented, multi-disciplinary team which includes social workers, mental health clinicians, nurses, psychiatric providers, peer advocates and program assistants, help clients to transition from homelessness to permanent housing.

Reporting to the Senior Program Director, the Housing Placement Coordinator
is responsible for executing and implementing our highly individualized and holistic mental health model to help our clients obtain long-term mental health stability and secure permanent housing. Candidates must have a focus on community-based human services with a social justice lens and be dedicated to supporting our clients as they optimize their wellness and achieve permanent housing placements. The Housing Placement Coordinator
will have primary responsibility for coordinating and overseeing all aspects of housing placements for our clients across the entire housing lifecycle from time of intake to successful move out.

The Housing Placement Coordinator
will:

• Manage the housing process for all of our clients, including understanding and being aware of all housing options available to