Description
The Enterprise Pacific Northwest office is seeking a Program Director to join our team working on Home & Hope, an initiative to catalyze development of public and tax-exempt property into affordable housing and early learning facilities.
In coordination with other members of Enterprise’s team, the Program Director will coordinate the Home & Hope Initiative’s site-related work. S/he will be responsible for generating and tracking a pipeline of public and tax-exempt sites with the potential to become affordable housing; manage technical consultants to complete site feasibility studies; and coordinate with clients and stakeholders to advance the sites towards disposition and redevelopment.
The Program Director will report to our Sr. Director in Seattle and will work closely with the Pacific Northwest Market Leader, public agencies, elected officials, affordable housing developers, and community-based organizations in Washington State. S/he will leverage Enterprise’s extensive best practice toolkits, policy expertise, technical skills, and organizational strategies to support the disposition and development of public and tax-exempt land for the implementation of capital projects that meaningfully integrate quality housing, education, and community facilities.
Core Responsibilities:
- Develop a pipeline of sites through outreach, partnerships, and research
- Create pipeline reports and communicate project statuses to key partners
- Conduct site feasibility studies
- Procure and manage consultants for site feasibility, including architects, engineers, appraisers, surveyors, etc.
- Track and manage feasibility project budgets
- Coordinate closely with site owner agencies and other stakeholders
- Provide technical assistance on real estate strategy to advance sites
- Create and present final site feasibility reports
- Organize cross-sector convenings and panels to disseminate knowledge on key topics, for example mixed-income, mixed use, or transit-oriented development
- Staff inter-organizational work groups
- Provide support for new opportunities and special projects
- Contribute writing for a variety of materials including external communications, policy analysis, white papers, funding proposals, and others
Qualifications
- Graduate degree in city planning, public policy, public administration or other related field. Six (6) or more years of relevant work experience. Graduate degree may be substituted for up to three (3) years of experience
- Excellent writing and research skills
- Demonstrated experience with prospecting for affordable housing projects and developing pipeline
- Ability to advance multiple projects simultaneously
- Demonstrated knowledge in at least two areas including housing finance and development, land use, community development, early education (pre-K), and/or urban policy
- Expertise in one or more of the following areas: real estate development; training and technical assistance; program design and delivery; contract management; grants management; community organizing
- Strong presentation, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
- Comfort working independently
- Computer skills; Microsoft Office suite mandatory; Adobe Creative Suite and ArcMap GIS or equivalent design and geospatial data software preferred. Salesforce experience preferred
Qualified applicant please apply directly
Job Sector
Not specified
Experience
5+ to 7 years
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