Affordable Housing Manager

If you're passionate about fostering communities where everyone has affordable housing, and neighborhoods thrive, the City of Durham is excited to invite you to consider the role of Affordable Housing Manager for the Housing and Neighborhood Services (HNS) Department.

This position will be nested within the Housing and Neighborhood Services – Affordable Housing Division.

An ideal candidate will have experience in the field of affordable housing and team leadership and a passion for local government.

This is an exciting time for the Housing and Neighborhood Services Department. The City’s Affordable Housing, Code Enforcement, and Human Relations teams were recently combined to create one department.

Collaboratively, the teams work together to execute the City Council's affordable housing and neighborhood services goals as we work together to build a Durham where everyone has affordable, safe, and fair housing. The department is committed to fostering an environment where everyone on the team is empowered to lead and achieve results consistent with the Council's goals and the department's work plan. We strive to put our department values into action in all that we do: service, teamwork, accountability, and empathy.

• Manage Affordable Housing Work: Leads a team that is responsible for the development and implementation of the City’s affordable housing work, including development and preservation projects and programs and policy efforts. 
• Track our Progress: Monitors and reports progress for the affordable housing components of the department’s performance management systems, including work plans, learning and development plans, and performance measures. 
• Team Leadership:  Supervises members of the Affordable Housing team, conducts employee performance evaluations, supports department recruitment efforts; and participates in the hiring process and onboarding for new employee.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position supervises and monitors performance for a regular group of employees. 

Knowledge of:

• Affordable housing tools and strategies
• Development finance, including the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) 
• Relevant federal, state, and local ordinances, policies, and procedures, including HUD guidelines for affordable housing and community development
• Management and supervisory principles and practices

Ability to:

• Organize, prioritize, and manage workload and timelines for self and others
• Supervise, train, and evaluate assigned staff
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, residents, vendors, and community partners

• Bachelor’s degree in business or public administration, planning, or community development, 
• Six years of professional program administration and/or analytical experience in area of assignment
• Two years of supervisory experience.
• A valid North Carolina Class C Driver’s License is required, or must be obtained within sixty (60) days of hire.

• Master's Degree in a related field
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications 
   

ADA and Other Requirements

• Work is performed in an indoor office environment, with occasional local travel to external organizations and locations.
• Sedentary work involves sitting much of the time.  Walking and standing are required occasionally.  Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Requires occasional reaching, standing, walking, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.