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Careers

What it’s like to Work United

Our team members combine their individual strengths to develop solutions to some of our region’s toughest challenges. Join our team to build equitable communities of stable households and thriving children.

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Dynamic Collaboration

We celebrate out-of-the-box ideas. We value different perspectives and a can-do attitude. Our success is driven by the ability of all departments to work together to ensure that we’re focused on one thing — serving our community.

Our Talent

We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer, seeking job candidates from culturally and racially diverse backgrounds. In addition to their life experiences, our team members come armed with connections in education, government, corporate, and small business settings — and we celebrate that.

A Beautiful Workspace: The Fisher

We’re enthusiastic about our space inside the iconic Albert Kahn-designed Fisher Building. Our office is in the heart of New Center, a historically revived Detroit neighborhood, ensuring we are close to the community we serve.

Benefits and Perks

We believe that to serve our mission, our team members need a culture that values work-life integration, individual needs, and continuous learning.

Health Care

We offer competitive health, vision and dental plans to team members and their families. Flexible Spending Accounts are also available to offset deductibles and other health care costs. We offer group wellness, with an emphasis on mental wellbeing. Supplemental insurance is also available, including accident, critical illness and hospital insurance, along with pet insurance.

Vacation

We encourage our team members to rest and recharge. New regular, full time team members earn 20 vacation days in their first year and 25 days beginning their second year and 13 paid holidays.

Professional Development

We foster growth opportunities through webinars, seminars, conferences, workshops, internal/external trainings, cohorts and other educational programs and platforms.  We encourage team members to continuously increase their knowledge and grow their skill sets and competencies – major contributors to career enhancement and organizational success!

Volunteer PTO

We value volunteerism, and we walk the walk by providing team member volunteer opportunities internally, as well as allowing team members to take time to give back to the causes they care about in the community.

Retirement Savings

We help you plan for your future by offering a 403(b)-retirement plan along with expert retirement planning services so you can work now and relax later.

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