Homeowner Services Coordinator - 2026-27
Homeowner Services Coordinator
For one year, get paid to build sustainable solutions in a community, gain valuable hands-on experience and prepare for your future. This full-time AmeriCorps service position offers a great opportunity to make an impact in the lives of others while building your own knowledge and skillset.
AmeriCorps National members serve the community in direct service and capacity building activities.
What will you do?
The homeowner services coordinator builds and maintains the pipeline of homeowner families by leading efforts to recruit and educate qualified families for both homeownership and home repair opportunities. This role involves recruiting homeowner family applicants and serving as their point of contact as they go through the application process. Together with a family selection committee, you help select homeowner families for a variety of housing products including new home construction, repair or rehab of existing homes and weatherization projects.
• Coordinate existing programs to recruit homeowner applicants for traditional homeownership opportunities or for expanded housing products such rehab, repair or weather revitalization.
• Conduct applicant orientations and assist families throughout process of completing the housing application.
• Work with the family selection committee to select homeowner families based on established criteria and regulations.
• Work with the family services committee and staff to provide educational opportunities to homeowner families.
• On occasion, build alongside homeowner families as they complete their contract requirements.
This position will focus on homeowner services aspects of Habitat affiliate operations.
Where will you serve?
• Organization name: Habitat for Humanity Orange County, NC
• Nearest metropolitan area: Raleigh-Durham
• Full-time staff: 34
• Expected number of AmeriCorps members: 3
• Number of homes to be built: 25
Activities and attractions: Chapel Hill offers the unique advantage of being centrally located between North Carolina’s mountains and coast, with Atlantic beaches approximately 2.5 hours to the east and the Blue Ridge Mountains about 3 hours to the west. As a vibrant college town and home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the community provides a wide range of amenities, including restaurants, arts and cultural events, local shops, parks, and recreational opportunities. The area is also known for its thriving and diverse food scene, featuring everything from award-winning local restaurants and food trucks to international cuisine and farm-to-table dining. Raleigh and Durham are within a 20-to-30-minute drive and expand access to the Research Triangle’s museums, historic sites, greenways, performing arts venues, sporting events, and diverse communities. The region is known for its innovation, higher education institutions, natural beauty, and year-round activities. There is always something to do!
Unique projects: The Homeowner Services Coordinator supports a unique aspect of Habitat for Humanity of Orange County’s work: ensuring that families continue to thrive long after they purchase their homes. While many AmeriCorps positions focus on construction, this role is centered on homeowner engagement, education, and long-term success - providing a rare opportunity to work directly with homeowners across multiple stages of their homeownership journey.
When will you serve?
Start dates are flexible and based on this location’s availability. Talk to the hiring manager for this position about start dates during your interview process. The start date will be 4-6 weeks from receiving an offer and no earlier than September 2026.
Benefits of AmeriCorps service
• Living allowance of $20,400 for approximately 10 ½ months of service.
• Segal Education Award of $7,395, upon successful completion of service.
• Forbearance for most federally guaranteed student loans.
• Health care benefits and enrollment in Employee Assistance Plan.
• Personal and medical leave — approximately 10 days total.
• Personal and professional development opportunities.
• Childcare benefits, if you qualify.
• Worker’s compensation insurance.
Supplemental Benefits
• Housing stipend paid directly to your landlord - $400 per month
Minimum Requirements
Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, national or lawful permanent resident at least 18 or older and have a high school diploma or GED.
What are we looking for?
Our ideal candidates:
• Are passionate about serving the community through direct service.
• Demonstrate respect for diversity of opinion, experience, and background.
• Desire to gain hands-on experience in the affordable housing and nonprofit sector.
• Have experience working on a team.
About Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976, is a global, Christian-based nonprofit organization that grew out of an intentionally multi-racial community in rural Georgia. Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat brings together people of all faiths and people of no faith to build homes, communities and hope. Working alongside each other, we help families and individuals build and improve places to call home and achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Habitat seeks individuals who have a willingness to affirm these principles and values.
At Habitat for Humanity International, we are compelled by our Koinonia roots to put God’s love for all into action and pursue housing equity and opportunity by bringing all people together to build community and drive impact. We strive to build a culture rooted in learning, accountability and trust, attracting and retaining mission-driven talent reflective of the global communities we serve.
As an equal opportunity employer, we realize our success depends on courageously committing to being a workplace where all staff feel safe, welcome, visible, respected, supported and valued, and building a workforce that reflects a variety of lived experiences, backgrounds and perspectives, in which every person experiences dignity and respect.
We also require that all staff take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities (especially children) and all those with whom we work. In line with the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, all staff must pass a thorough background screening and will be held accountable to upholding our policies around ethical behavior, including safeguarding and whistleblowing.