Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities

• Helping to lead the City’s public-private housing initiatives and City-led redevelopment projects that involve affordable housing components
• Establishing excellent working relationships with relevant partners, to include staff in the Planning & Development Department, staff in the City Attorney’s Office, the Department’s outside counsel, and a variety of other external partners. Spearheading and developing partnerships with private sector entities interested in making affordable housing investments in Raleigh
• Collecting and using data including housing and real estate market analysis, cost and budget analysis, and financial underwriting of projects
• Drafting notices of funding availability (NOFAs), requests for proposals (RFPs), and requests for bids (RFBs). Evaluating proposals and potential partnerships for public-private projects, including conducting underwriting analysis, negotiating terms, and making funding recommendations to City Council
• Helping to project manage capital improvements and overall property/project management activities related to the City-owned affordable housing units, to include the scattered-site affordable rental portfolio and the Studios at 2800
• Collaborating with other Department and City staff, and outside counsel as applicable, to close loans and to monitor construction and post-construction compliance
• Managing data associated with project and program areas and using data to respond to inquiries from Department leadership and City Council, and to make recommendations for program and policy updates

Typical Qualifications

Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree in real estate, urban planning, business administration or directly related field and three years of community development finance experience, real estate or housing finance experience, or other related experience
OR
An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above, unless otherwise subject to any other requirements set forth in law or regulation.
Computer Skills:
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have advanced knowledge of Microsoft programs, specifically Excel, as well as Windows accessories and PowerPoint.
Certifications, Licenses, Registration:
AICP, NDC Housing Development Finance Professional Certification, or other related professional certifications preferred.
Additional Qualifications:

• Excellent interpersonal skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, other departments, elected officials, the media, the public, and the development community.
• Excellent project management and time management skills, including planning, organizing, evaluating and implementation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including public presentation skills.
• Working knowledge of federal housing and community development programs, including HOME, CDBG, and LIHTC.
• Working knowledge of real estate and/or affordable housing finance, including but not limited to financial analysis and underwriting, deal structuring, and compliance with federal regulations.

Additional Information

Knowledge Of:

• Supervisory principles, practices and techniques
• Techniques and methods for organizing, prioritizing, assigning and monitoring work
• Practices and methods of coaching and leading the work of others
• Principles of social demographics, data analysis, mapping of socio-economic conditions
• Principles and practices of federal housing grant program regulations, and environmental review requirements
• Principles and applications of critical thinking and analysis
• Best practices, trends and emerging technologies
• Principles and techniques of effective oral presentations
• Principles and practices of budget development and administration
• Applicable federal, state and local laws, codes, regulations
• Customer service principles
• Specialized equipment relevant to area of assignment

• Supervising and evaluating staff performance
• Training and coaching staff
• Managing a project or program
• Overseeing the implementation and adherence to quality assurance and standards
• Researching industry trends, solutions and best practices
• Gathering data, analyzing findings and applying logic and reason
• Interpreting, monitoring and reporting financial information and statistics
• Establishing and maintaining business relationships in support of economic development
• Exercising political acumen, tact and diplomacy
• Coordinating deadlines, prioritizing work demands and assigning/monitoring work performed
• Working effectively under pressure, with multiple deadlines and changing priorities
• Authoring and preparing original reports, documents and presentations
• Facilitating group discussions and building consensus using persuasive reasoning
• Managing project or program finances
• Preparing and administering budgets and related reporting
• Interpreting and applying applicable laws, codes, regulations and standards
• Providing customer service
• Utilizing a computer and relevant software applications
• Utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisors, the general public and others to sufficiently exchange or convey information and to receive work direction