Community Initiatives Manager

Omaha Community Foundation•Omaha, NE

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Community Initiatives Manager serves as Front Porch Investments’ lead steward of housing justice, community intelligence, and community informed system change efforts that advance affordable housing outcomes. This position identifies emerging needs, opportunities, and barriers within the housing ecosystem and works across sectors to translate insights into action.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, Urban Planning, Community Development, Public Policy, Social Sciences, or a related field.
5-7 years of experience in community development, affordable housing, public policy, philanthropy, stakeholder engagement, program management, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience leading collaborative initiatives and building strategic partnerships across sectors.
Strong understanding of affordable housing systems, community development, and systems-change approaches.
Experience facilitating meetings, convenings, advisory groups, or multi-stakeholder initiatives.
Excellent relationship-building, communication, and facilitation skills.
Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Strategic thinker capable of moving between high-level organizational goals and detailed implementation.
Ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders, including residents, community leaders, developers, elected officials, funders, and institutional partners.
Experience translating community perspectives and stakeholder insights into systems-level strategies, initiatives, or policy recommendations.

Nice To Haves

We encourage candidates with a mix of lived experience, professional expertise, and transferable skills to apply, even if you don’t meet every listed qualification.

Responsibilities

Monitor housing trends, barriers, and gaps across the metro’s housing ecosystem and identify opportunities for organizational action, collaboration, or investment.
Gather, synthesize, and communicate community and stakeholder perspectives to identity emerging needs and community priorities and inform organizational priorities, initiatives, and decision making.
Identify emerging issues, innovative approaches, and partnerships that align with Front Porch’s mission and strategic goals.
Serve as the organizational lead for advancing housing justice priorities and community-informed approaches that strengthen housing opportunity and address systemic barriers.
Lead implementation of recommendations, initiatives, and partnerships and help guide the evolution of Greenlining as a long-term organizational strategy.
Staff the Community Advisory Committee (CAC), including recruitment, orientation, facilitation, and ongoing engagement.
Identify and advance opportunities to address structural barriers to housing stability, access, and affordability through partnerships, investments, policy alignment, and collaboration.
Collaborate with organizational leadership to develop and implement community-informed strategies that advance housing opportunity and organizational priorities.
Work closely with policy, development, lending, and communications staff to ensure community insights and priorities are reflected across organizational initiatives.
Lead or support strategic initiatives such as pilot projects, studies, and special projects.
Design and facilitate collaborative initiatives with ecosystem partners.
Develop work plans, coordinate partners, manage timelines, and monitor progress for key initiatives.
Plan and facilitate collaborative discussions, working groups, learning exchanges, conferences, and implementation efforts.
Help move ideas, recommendations, and collaborative efforts into actionable programs, projects, and partnerships.
Administer the Innovation Fund and legacy grant investments including coordinating review processes, developing funding recommendations, tracking results, and reporting to the board.
Track outcomes associated with grants, strategic initiatives, and partnerships.
Translate lessons learned from community engagement, strategic initiatives, and grant investments into recommendations for continuous improvement and future action.
Prepare reports and presentations that communicate progress, impact, and key insights to leadership, board members, funders, and external stakeholders.