Director of Housing Acquisition + Unit Readiness

Anthos Home•New York, NY

24d•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthos|Home is a nonprofit startup using technology to streamline apartment search, approval, and move-in processes for New Yorkers with housing vouchers. The Director of Housing Acquisition & Unit Readiness leads housing acquisition across New York City and oversees the Housing Acquisition and Housing Unit Readiness Supervisors and their teams. Reporting to the Vice President of Housing Acquisition & Unit Readiness (VPHA), the Director serves as the VPHA’s key deputy and translates organizational strategy into execution. The role manages the full process from cultivating property partnerships and identifying units through move-in readiness and post-move-in repair resolution, ensuring secured units meet quality standards. The Director negotiates and structures deals with landlords and brokers, oversees outreach and bulk-unit partnership efforts, and evaluates opportunities against voucher payment standards, landlord reliability, repair costs, neighborhood demand, and market conditions. The position also develops property-partner relationships, represents Anthos|Home at industry events, coaches and manages supervisors, and serves as an escalation point for complex partner and inspection issues. This role coordinates acquisition and readiness operations, aligns unit supply with referral demand, and identifies opportunities to improve end-to-end pipeline performance. It uses data, dashboards, and operational reports to monitor acquisition trends, outreach conversion, readiness timelines, deal velocity, pipeline health, and team productivity. The Director works with the VPHA and internal teams to implement plans, workflows, production targets, process improvements, and coordinated service handoffs. Anthos|Home offers a hybrid work environment, with 2–5 days per week in the office or field. The role requires flexibility to work evenings and weekends as needed. Compensation is $100,000–$125,000, with a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

4–6 years of progressive experience in housing acquisition, real estate, property management, or a related field, including 2–3 years in a supervisory role.
Experience managing and developing teams, setting performance targets, coaching supervisors, and holding staff accountable to outcomes.
Experience negotiating with landlords, developers, brokers, or property managers; subsidized or voucher-based housing experience is desirable.
Deep knowledge of the New York City rental market, including rent levels, neighborhood dynamics, and the landlord landscape.
Knowledge of NYC subsidy programs such as CityFHEPS, FHEPS, Section 8, SOTA, or similar programs, including inspection and approval processes.
Strong data literacy and comfort using dashboards, CRMs, or tracking systems such as Salesforce or Airtable to manage pipelines and make operational decisions.
Excellent communication and relationship-management skills, including the ability to represent the organization credibly to external partners.
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
Ability to work evenings and weekends as needed.

Nice To Haves

Experience in affordable or supportive housing acquisition, homeless services, or housing placement for voucher holders.
Existing relationships with NYC landlords, brokers, developers, or property management companies.
Experience overseeing both acquisition and unit readiness, including inspections and repair coordination.
Familiarity with HRA, HPD, or NYCHA processes.

Responsibilities

Lead negotiations and deal structuring with landlords and brokers, including use of Flex Pool incentives such as repair financing.
Oversee outreach campaigns and secure bulk-unit agreements and portfolio partnerships that expand the housing pipeline and identify units meeting program standards.
Assess deal viability based on voucher payment standards, landlord reliability, repair costs, neighborhood demand, and market conditions; recommend deals to pursue or decline to the VPHA.
Explore ways to expand Anthos|Home’s value proposition to property partners beyond unit acquisition, in coordination with the VPHA.
Represent Anthos|Home at industry events and build relationships with property partners.
Directly supervise, coach, and develop the Housing Acquisition Supervisor and Housing Unit Readiness Supervisor, including performance management and professional development.
Ensure supervisors manage their teams effectively against acquisition targets, readiness benchmarks, and property-partner relationship standards.
Serve as the escalation point for complex landlord, broker, or property-provider issues and facilitate timely resolutions.
Foster accountability, responsiveness, and customer-service excellence across acquisition and unit-readiness teams.
Partner with the VPHA to turn strategies into actionable plans, workflows, and production targets for both teams.
Ensure timely and compliant inspections, inspection submissions, and repair coordination; escalate complex inspection or city-government issues as needed.
Coordinate acquisition and unit-readiness operations so units progress toward move-in readiness in parallel with housing-packet submissions.
Support the Housing Unit Readiness Supervisor in strengthening account management and long-term property-provider relationships.
Identify operational bottlenecks and implement improvements across the acquisition and readiness pipeline.
Collaborate with the Director of Operations and Aftercare Supervisors, through the Housing Unit Readiness Supervisor, to coordinate handoffs and service delivery.
Use operational data to guide where, when, and how teams deploy outreach and deal-making efforts.
Analyze acquisition trends, outreach conversion, referral demand, and readiness timelines to identify gaps, prioritize geographies, and shift team focus.
Track Tenant Coordination team referral volume and demand signals, and coordinate with the Housing Acquisition Supervisor to align the pipeline with unit-size, location, and accessibility needs.
Develop and maintain dashboards and operational reports covering pipeline health, deal velocity, readiness status, and team productivity.
Build and refine intake and deal-tracking workflows so prospects, negotiations, closed units, and post-move-in repairs are consistently logged, progressed, and reported.
Perform other duties as assigned in support of organizational goals.