The Position

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  Customer focused: You will work closely with developers, tenants, owners, property management firms, social service providers, other lenders, and other City departments.
• Strong in communication skills: You are able to engage with entities and persons in order to enforce the City’s requirements, but also to promote healthy and affordable living environments and project stability. Being able to communicate respectively and effectively with a variety of people is a key component of your work.
• Detail oriented: You have meticulous attention to details, from reviewing budgets to legal documents, and coordinating communications with a wide variety of internal and external partners.

• Coordinating the development and implementation of housing development and emergency housing projects and programs.
• Drafting and negotiating complex legal documents.
• Reviewing operating and development budgets, as well as reserve requests and draw requests.

A few reasons you might love this job:

• You will experience the opportunity to produce greatest impacts to the community through activities and projects funded out of this agency.
• You will work with a diverse group of employees with shared passions.
• You will have multiple opportunities to engage, inform and receive community feedback.
• You will experience

A few challenges you might face in this job:

• Upcoming restructuring may require retraining or pivoting staff resources
• Difficult tenant/landlord conflicts
• Competing priorities for urgent attention

Competencies Required:

• Analyzing & Interpreting Data: Drawing meaning and conclusions from quantitative or qualitative data
• Critical Thinking: Analytically and logically evaluating information, propositions, and claims
• Industry Monitoring: Grasping the external political, economic, competitive, and social factors affecting the industry
• Legal & Regulatory Navigation: Understanding, interpreting, and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations
• Professional & Technical Expertise: Applying technical subject matter to the job
• Attention to Detail: Focusing on the details of work content, work steps, and final work products
• Displaying Ownership and Accountability: Holding self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results.
• Innovative Problem Solving: Identifying and analyzing problems in order to propose new and better ways of doing things
• Oral Communication: Engaging effectively in dialogue
• Writing: Communicating effectively in writing
• Building & Maintaining Relationships: Establishing rapport and maintaining mutually productive relationships
• Influencing: Affecting or changing others’ positions and opinions
• Managing Performance: Ensuring superior individual and group performance
• Project Management: Ensuring that projects are on-time, on-budget, and achieve their objectives

Minimum Requirements for Application

This recruitment will produce two eligible lists. The restricted list will be for full-time, permanent part-time, or part-time City and Port of Oakland employees who meet the minimum qualifications. The open list will be for all other applicants who meet the minimum qualifications.

Any combination of education and experience that is equivalent to the following minimum qualifications is acceptable.

Education:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in architecture, city planning, public administration, business administration, or related field. Master's degree is desirable.

Experience:

Two years of experience comparable to a Housing Development Coordinator III in the City of Oakland.
License or Certificate:
Successful incumbents in this position are expected to operate automotive vehicles in the performance of assigned duties. Due to the nature of the assignment and the hours worked, public transportation may not be a cost effective or efficient method for traveling to the various locations required. Individuals who are appointed to this position will be required to maintain a valid California Driver’s License throughout the tenure of employment OR demonstrate the ability to travel to various locations in a timely manner as required in the performance of duties.

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