Job Title: Tax Credit/Health Justice Advocate for Southern Region
Organization: Pisgah Legal Services
Application Deadline: October 31, 2026
Position Type: Full-time, salary
Classification: Exempt Employee
Position Overview
The WNC Health and Economic Opportunities Program (HEOP) Program to support our mission in 18 Western North Carolina counties as part of a multi-year grant funded expansion of anti-poverty work within the broad areas of free tax preparation/tax credits and outreach/enrollment for Affordable Care Act health insurance. Counties serviced include: Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania and Yancey. The WNC HEOP is designed to have long-term impact through two main priorities: (1) reduce the child poverty rate in each WNC county and (2) increase the insured rate through quality, affordable health care coverage in each WNC county. The program will work in conjunction with the entire PLS legal aid staff to support expanding free legal assistance to help a growing number of low-income people each year to solve problems related to basic needs, particularly housing, domestic violence, health care, and insufficient income.
The WNC HEOP Tax Credit and Health Justice Advocate will be responsible for ensuring that families and individuals gain access to quality health insurance coverage, as well as quality tax preparation services throughout the Southern region that services Transylvania, Henderson, Polk, and Rutherford Counties. The responsibilities will be split between providing tax preparation services, which includes informing potential clients of free tax clinics, collecting relevant financial records, inputting data from financial records into tax return databases and completing the filing of tax documents with appropriate agencies and responsibilities as a health justice advocate, which includes helping clients make informed decisions about healthcare coverage by providing one-on-one enrollment assistance. This position will be based in Hendersonville, NC. Rutherfordton, NC, or Brevard, NC.
Compensation& Benefits: Salary ranges from $46,995 – $67,696 depending on experience. Additional bilingual language skills that are applicable to this role may qualify for up to an additional $3k upon completing a language assessment test.
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