DEPUTY DIRECTOR HOUSING & NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT - Salt Lake City

Description:
Assist the Director in the implementation of both short and long-term strategies that achieve the division’s mission, ensuring that there is consistent and timely progress. Management and oversight of the Housing and Neighborhood Development programs.  Programs include the management of federal grant funds, affordable housing projects, capital improvement projects, impact fees, housing rehabilitation, neighborhood community center, first time homebuyer and community development. Participate in structuring, obtaining, and developing financing opportunities using federal grants, bond financing, loans, and other funding mechanisms.  Create, analyze, and implement financial pro formas. Effectively manage the division’s community programs.  Build and strengthen relationships, and develop strategies with community partners for the implementation of the division’s goals.  Create opportunities for the use of the neighborhood grant program.  Oversee a community center and its associated programs. Involvement in the initiation, strategic planning, implementation, and advancement of all capital asset projects and measuring the effectiveness to ensure that projects meet the short and long term needs of the City.  Coordinates the review of all proposed projects through the Capital Asset Project Review Committee and the Community Development Capital Improvement Projects Citizen Review board. Provides leadership for developing, implementing, and evaluating the division’s housing initiatives and programs. Ensures the development of personnel plans as they pertain to the achievement of the division’s mission. Takes initiative to address and solve personnel and program problems, issues, and concerns in a timely manner. Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
•    Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Public Administration, Planning, or a related field plus five (5) years work related experience, two (2) of which must be in a supervisory capacity.  Education and experience may be substituted one for another, on a year-for-year basis.
•    An understanding of the federal grant programs including CDBG, HOME, HOPWA, and ESG and the reporting and monitoring requirements for these programs.
•    Familiarity with real estate development and current trends including the acquisition and disposition of properties, leases, easements, appraisals, and environmental studies.
•    The Deputy Director should have experience working with community based organizations, and support capacity building and community development.
•    Must have the ability to understand financing tools such as grants, loans, bonds, etc.  Must have the ability to evaluate and analyze complex financial problems and make appropriate recommendations or decisions.
•    Understand trends and opportunities as they apply to housing markets, funding from federal and local grants, etc. 
•    Must have the ability to obtain and disseminate data, quickly identify needs in the community, and create and implement strategy to meet those needs.
•    The Deputy Director must have the ability to manage multiple teams of staff members who are responsible for various operations of the Division.
•    Understand how to develop and administrate public budgets.

DEPUTY DIRECTOR HOUSING & NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
•    Masters degree in Business Administration, Real Estate Development, Public Administration or a related field.
•    The Deputy Director should be well organized, detail oriented, and has the ability to meet specific deadlines and manage all federal requirements.
•    Must have the ability to understand the division’s mission and develop and refine the business processes to achieve that mission.  Must be able to objectively evaluate the program’s processes and outcomes.
•    Must be able to clearly explain expectations to employees and follow-up with staff to ensure that the Division’s goals are being achieved.
•    Must be able to inspire staff to be genuinely interested in the people they serve so that they can more readily recognize opportunities in the community.
•    Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.  Must be able to effectively present in front groups, boards, Mayor’s office, and City Council.

Apply:
.   Online application available @ www.slcgov.com/jobs