Community Initiatives Manager

Omaha Community Foundation•Omaha, NE

2d•$98,800 - $117,700

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. The role serves as a bridge between community stakeholders, housing practitioners, public agencies, and organizational leadership to ensure Front Porch’s investments, initiatives, and strategies remain responsive to evolving community needs. Through strategic partnerships, collaborative initiatives, and community-informed systems change efforts, this position helps strengthen the affordable housing ecosystem and advance Front Porch’s mission. This role leads initiatives grounded in Front Porch Investments’ commitment to housing justice, community-informed development, and systems-level solutions that expand housing opportunity and address barriers facing underserved communities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration, Urban Planning, Community Development, Public Policy, Social Sciences, or a related field.
Five to seven 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.
Demonstrated commitment to housing justice, community-informed development, and equitable housing outcomes.
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

Commitment to Front Porch Investments’ mission, vision and values: MISSION Front Porch Investments is a catalyst for innovative and community-centered affordable housing solutions. VISION Front Porch Investments envisions a thriving community with safe, affordable homes for all. VALUES Human-Centered: We believe in housing as a human right and center this belief in our work. Bold: We make bold decisions to support housing innovation. Inclusive: We prioritize equitable access to the housing ecosystem, especially for historically excluded voices. Collaborative: We believe collaboration across systems is where transformative change happens.

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, housing barriers, community priorities and inform organizational priorities, initiatives, and decision making.
Identify emerging issues, innovative approaches, and potential 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.
Coordinate and support the Community Advisory Committee (CAC), including recruitment, orientation, facilitation, ongoing engagement, and evolution over time.
Identify and advance opportunities to address structural barriers to housing stability, access, opportunity, homeownership, and affordable housing development through partnerships, investments, policy alignment, and collaborative action.
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 Greenlining priorities are reflected throughout organizational initiatives.
Lead or support strategic initiatives such as pilot projects, studies, and special projects that strengthen affordable housing systems, expand housing opportunity, or address community-identified needs.
Design and facilitate collaborative initiatives that advance community-informed housing solutions and address barriers within the affordable housing ecosystem.
Develop work plans, coordinate partners, manage timelines, and monitor progress for assigned initiatives.
Plan and facilitate collaborative discussions, working groups, learning exchanges, conferences, and implementation efforts related to strategic initiatives.
Help move ideas, recommendations, and collaborative efforts into actionable programs, projects, and partnerships.
Oversee administration of the Innovation Fund and legacy grant investments.
Coordinate proposal review processes, develop funding recommendations, and support board reporting as needed.
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.