About the Role
The Operations Manager provides day-to-day supervision and support to front line staff in local NACA offices and other national operations functions. The position requires strong administrative and customer service skills in a fast-paced environment with the ability to multi-task. The OM is responsible for a broad range of administrative, operational, and facility management tasks, as well as coaching, training, and developing staff. S/he manages departmental workflow, production goals, and target performance metrics. The OM reviews operational processes to determine effectiveness and efficiencies and recommends policy and procedural changes when necessary.
Responsibilities
- Monitor monthly trends and implement new enhancements to increase production.
- Review and obtain necessary approvals for all personnel actions regarding Time & Attendance, Policy Violations and other types of personnel action.
- Ensure company events are adequately staffed and event performance standards are met.
- Propose and implement new office policies.
- Maintain and conduct quality checks within all office spaces.
- Ensure all office spaces meet company brand standards.
- Monitor equipment and report updates on condition and operability.
- Identify and solve problems independently, whether it involves physical labor or administrative functions.
- Serve as an internal and external liaison on behalf of the Department of Office Operations to other NACA departments.
- Troubleshoot issues and make department recommendations promoting smooth operational flow.
- Assist with payroll and time and attendance for all staff.
- Assist in coaching and developing new and existing staff.
- Assist with continued education of all staff.
- Manage the day-to-day office operations across multiple locations and office processes, production and performance.
- Ensure each NACA Office has at least two functioning kiosks.
- Ensure Smartboard and Chromebook are operable.
- Ensure offices are staffed with at least an Office Administrator or Receptionist.
- Ensure offices are well organized and presentable to the Members.
- Ensure offices are clear of any customer sensitive information.
- Ensure offices have sufficient supplies with a reasonable inventory.
- Manage office supplies, order new stock and maintain inventory.
- Ensure the front desk is managed effectively.
- Ensure cameras are well functioning in all offices.
- Monitor office operations, including reviewing camera footage in real time and tape.
- Provide on-going on-site reviews and monitoring.
- Oversee onboarding of new hires, including setting up their office.
- Oversee office space with attention to health and safety concerns.
- Ensure the monitoring of common areas, hallways, and offices.
- Enforce NACA’s policies and procedures.
- Responsible for reasonable and cost-effective cleaning services in each office.
- Responsible for monitoring and minimizing electrical and HVAC costs.
- Ensure effective office maintenance and security.
- Periodically review the overall facility, building conditions, parking lot conditions, etc.
- Rapidly respond, document and report any office issues concerning safety and health.
- Manage the NACA Counselors calendar, ensuring 20 to 25 sessions per week unless approved change.
- Review confirmations to make appropriate scheduling adjustments.
- Maintain waitlist for Members requesting earlier appointments.
- Adjust calendars for staff not available.
- Ensure that Intake Counseling sessions are in-person where possible.
- Schedule and confirm counseling appointments and manage waiting list.
- Monitor counselor appointment calendar and keep record of appointment statuses, confirmations and Member Action Plans.
- Keep concise reporting of calendar violations, unproductive patterns and trends.
- Educate staff and Members on effective use of the Member Portal, Kiosks and other NACA systems.
- Maintain an escalations report of system issues and monitor until resolved.
- Make system enhancement recommendations.
- Manage NACA’s Member Services line by local office and call center staff, adhering to a one call resolution standard.
- Manage inbound assigned queue calls with a very high percentage pull-through rate.
- Answer the phone providing local and national information to people calling the local phone and national queue.
- Manage office voice mails, emails and other correspondence.
- Address Member inquiries and provide assistance both in person and over the phone.
- Manage and attend bi-weekly Saturday Home Buyer Workshops and weekly Purchase workshops.
- Maintain a minimum of two In-Person Homebuyer Workshop each month listed within a six-week period.
- Ensure at In-Person Homebuyer Workshop at least six positive testimonials from NACA homeowners scheduled with a minimum of two to three actual participants.
- Ensure Purchase Workshops are properly staffed and managed weekly.
- Coordinate Post-Purchase workshops monthly, confirm staffing and ensure closed Members are identified, invited and participate.
- Manage volunteer and participation activities for Members and others.
- Monitor services provided by MCs, real estate agents, third-party vendors and others.
- Ensure closed Members complete testimonials.
- Identify, contact and have participate Members in various events and calls to action.
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Four (4) years related work experience.
- Experience in office operations, administration or project management.
- Supervisory experience is preferred.
- Effective NACA Counselor experience is preferred.
- Education, training, or teaching experience is preferred.
- Work with low- to moderate-income individuals and communities is preferred.
- Commitment and enthusiasm for NACA's mission of economic justice and NACA's approach to overcoming systemic barriers to homeownership.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Strong communication skills (written, verbal and public speaking), with the ability to clearly explain complex requirements.
- Understanding of and commitment to fair housing principles.
- Strong customer service skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Ability to troubleshoot office equipment (printers, projectors, laptops, etc.).
- Proficiency in managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong problem-solving and adaptability.
- Demonstrated professionalism and the requirement to maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to speak languages other than English, particularly Spanish, is a plus.
- Proficiency with spreadsheets and other reporting tracking tools.
- Advanced working knowledge of standard Office Software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and other technology platforms.
- Must be willing and able to meet the demands of the job that typically consists of 50 to 55+ hours per week.
- Ability to exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently and/or the ability to move objects throughout an office.
Skills
- Administrative skills
- Customer service skills
- Multi-tasking
- Coaching
- Training
- Staff development
- Workflow management
- Production goal management
- Performance metrics tracking
- Process review
- Policy and procedural recommendation
- Operations reporting
- Office audits
- Policy adherence
- Facility management
- Inter-departmental communication
- External communication
- System policy and procedure knowledge
- Resource and tool provision
- Office upkeep and care
- Calendar management
- Member workshop scheduling
- Meeting coordination
- Service provision
- Outreach strategy development
- Volunteer recruitment and organization
- Effectiveness evaluation
- Time and attendance monitoring
- Staff activity monitoring
- Communication
- Professionalism
- Efficiency
- Positive work environment maintenance
- Risk identification
- Concern identification
- Violation identification
- Program knowledge
- Organization
- Proactiveness
- People-focused adaptability
- Fast-paced environment adaptability
- Quality checks
- Brand standards adherence
- Equipment monitoring
- Problem-solving
- Liaison skills
- Operational flow promotion
- Payroll assistance
- Time and attendance assistance
- New hire onboarding
- Health and safety oversight
- Common area monitoring
- Hallway monitoring
- Office monitoring
- Policy enforcement
- Cleaning service management
- Cost-effective service provision
- Electrical cost monitoring
- HVAC cost monitoring
- Maintenance
- Security
- Facility review
- Building condition review
- Parking lot condition review
- Safety reporting
- Health reporting
- Scheduling adjustments
- Waitlist management
- Staff availability adjustment
- Intake counseling scheduling
- Appointment confirmation
- Waiting list management
- Appointment status tracking
- Member Action Plan tracking
- Calendar violation reporting
- Unproductive pattern reporting
- Trend reporting
- System education
- Escalations report maintenance
- Issue resolution monitoring
- System enhancement recommendation
- Member Services line management
- Call center staff management
- One call resolution
- Call abandonment rate reduction
- High percentage pull-through rate
- NACApedia knowledge
- Local information provision
- National information provision
- Voice mail management
- Email management
- Correspondence management
- In-person assistance
- Phone assistance
- Home Buyer Workshop management
- Purchase Workshop management
- Testimonial collection
- Volunteer management
- Participation activity management
- Third-party vendor monitoring
- Testimonial collection from closed Members
- Event participation coordination
- Call to action participation coordination
- Public speaking
- Complex requirement explanation
- Fair housing principles understanding
- Independent work
- Collaborative work
- Office equipment troubleshooting
- Priority management
- Adaptability
- Professionalism maintenance
- Confidentiality maintenance
- Spreadsheet proficiency
- Reporting tool proficiency
- Microsoft Office Suite proficiency
- Technology platform proficiency
Location
- Charlotte, NC
- Houston, TX
- Chicago, IL
- Atlanta, GA
- Boston, MA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4 years related work experience
- Experience in office operations, administration or project management
- Supervisory experience preferred
- Effective NACA Counselor preferred
- Education, training, or teaching experience preferred
- Work with low- to moderate-income individuals and communities preferred
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree, equivalent level of education and/or offsetting work experience
- Training & licenses demonstrating important knowledge and credentials - Preferred
- HUD-certified housing counselor - Required
Salary/Compensations
- $60,000 - $75,000+
- $50,000 and $65,000 with overtime and bonus as stated below, with total annual compensation between $65,000 and $75,000+
Benefits
- Excellent single/family health, vision, and dental PPO, 70% employer contribution and 401(k)
About the Company
- NACA is the largest and most effective non-profit homeownership and advocacy organization in the country.
- NACA is one of the most exciting homeownership and advocacy organizations that is both respected and feared for its effective operations and aggressive advocacy over four decades.
- Founded in 1988, NACA has won campaigns against some of the country’s most powerful companies and individuals engaged in predatory and discriminatory lending.
- NACA’s success is a result of its relentless confrontational advocacy as well as state-of-the-art systems and operations.
- NACA is well positioned for the future with more than $20 billion from major lenders, of which $15 billion is from Bank of America, to fund its extraordinary mortgage.
- NACA is rapidly growing with 50 offices nationwide and more than three million Members.
- NACA has revolutionized mortgage lending with its character-based housing counseling and mortgage programs, not based on traditional risk-based pricing or credit scores.
- Provides the best mortgage in America: No down payment, no closing costs, no fees, no mortgage insurance, at a below-market fixed rate without consideration of one’s credit score.
- Largest and most effective HUD-approved counseling organization providing from 20% to 30%+ of the nation’s housing counseling.
- At the forefront in the fight against abusive and discriminatory lending practices.
- Saved more than 500,000 homeowners with an unaffordable mortgage from foreclosure during the mortgage crisis.
- High-profile organization whose affordable mortgage programs and community advocacy are frequently featured in the national, international, and local media.
- Growing its existing offices, adding new offices nationwide, expanding its operations, and hiring additional managers.
- Harnessing its power in the fight for economic justice and affordable homeownership for all.
Equal Opportunity
- NACA is an equal opportunity employer.
- Minority and bilingual individuals, particularly those who speak and write in Spanish, as well as second-chance applicants, are strongly encouraged to apply.
