Program Director

Location: Seattle, WA
Time Type: Full time
Posted Date: Posted 30+ Days Ago
Requisition ID: REQ1832

Enterprise is a national nonprofit that exists to make a good home possible for the millions of families without one. We support community development organizations on the ground, aggregate and invest capital for impact, advance housing policy at every level of government, and build and manage communities ourselves. Since 1982, we have invested $54 billion and created 873,000 homes across all 50 states – all to make home and community places of pride, power and belonging.

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Enterprise offers career opportunities in our offices across the country with an exceptional benefits package.

Job Description Summary

Enterprise’s Pacific Northwest office is seeking a Program Director to join our team working on Home & Hope, catalyzing an exciting pipeline of affordable housing statewide. The person in this role will have a broad impact, building and leveraging relationships with partners and stakeholders, and connecting resources to create maximum public benefit. Since 2016, Enterprise’s Home & Hope initiative has helped catalyze the development of approximately 6,000 affordable homes, 100 early learning classrooms and 30 community facilities throughout Washington state.

The Program Director will join a high-performing, values-driven team and will coordinate the Home & Hope Initiative’s site-related work. They will be responsible for generating and tracking a pipeline of public and tax-exempt sites with the potential to become affordable housing; provide real estate development expertise and technical assistance to project partners; and coordinate with project stakeholders to advance sites towards disposition and redevelopment.

The Program Director will report to our Senior Program Director in Seattle and will work closely with Enterprise colleagues, public agencies, elected officials, affordable housing developers, and community-based organizations in Washington State. They 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.

Our team is working in a hybrid environment, with offices located in the Seattle Chinatown-International District.

Salary Range: $75,500-$90,000

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a pipeline of sites through outreach, partnerships, and research
• Create pipeline reports and communicate project status to key partners
• Conduct site feasibility studies
• Track and manage feasibility project budgets
• Coordinate closely with site owner agencies and other stakeholders
• Manage grants and 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:

• An undergraduate degree and six (6) or more years of experience with a high level of technical expertise, required. Advanced degree may be substituted for up to three (3) years of experience.
• 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
• Demonstrated knowledge in at least two areas including housing finance and development, land use, community development, and/or urban policy
• Demonstrated experience with prospecting for affordable housing projects and developing pipeline
• Ability to advance multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent writing and research skills
• Strong presentation, negotiation and interpersonal skills.
• Comfort working independently and in a team
• Computer skills; Microsoft Office suite mandatory. Adobe Creative Suite and ArcMap GIS or equivalent design and geospatial data software preferred. Salesforce experience preferred

ATTRIBUTES REQUIRED:

THOUGHTFUL- Creative, strategic thinker with demonstrated imagination and flexibility.

INFORMATIVE- Effective written and oral communication skills. Excellent presentation skills. Thoughtful listener. Direct and open communication style.

DEDICATED- Dedicated self-starter who is accustomed to taking initiative and driving toward results, has a high degree of self-motivation, dedication, creativity and perseverance.

PROFESSIONAL- Mature in demeanor, actions, and attitude, toward both colleagues and external audiences.

ADAPTABLE – Can independently and rapidly respond to new tasks and challenges.

COMMITTED- Must be committed to, and find enduring inspiration in, Enterprise’s mission. Must have a desire to join a nonprofit organization and advocate on behalf of Enterprise and the communities it serves.