Community Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in commercial real estate, affordable housing, multifamily finance, public policy, strategy consulting, investment banking, government affairs, or related fields.
• Demonstrate deep understanding of multifamily housing finance and capital markets and translate market/policy dynamics into bankable opportunities.
• Lead complex cross-functional initiatives and drive decisions with senior stakeholders in high-visibility environments.
• Write and synthesize complex topics into executive-ready materials and deliver compelling presentations.
• Operate autonomously with sound judgment, high standards, and comfort navigating ambiguity.
• Build effective partnerships across internal lines of business and external public- and private-sector stakeholders.
• Develop and manage governance structures, workplans, measurement frameworks, and action tracking to ensure consistent execution.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience with affordable housing finance, LIHTC, workforce housing initiatives, or municipal/state housing programs.
• Familiarity with CDFI partnerships, Community Development Banking, and public-private partnership models.
• Experience engaging Agency stakeholders (e.g., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac) and/or FHA/HUD programs and processes.
• Operate across the housing ecosystem end-to-end and influence diverse stakeholders to align on outcomes.
• Lead people and/or build teams, operating cadence, and structured workplans in matrixed environments.
• Identify and evaluate innovative capital solutions and risk-sharing structures that can scale nationally.
• Support executive forums through strong briefing, agenda-setting, and follow-through for senior leadership committees.

Responsibilities

• Work with senior leaders and policy teams to shape and activate a multi-year strategy to increase housing supply aligned to business objectives and impact goals.
• Define priority themes (e.g., policy, capital innovation, partnerships, market selection) and translate them into an executable roadmap.
• Provide clear points of view and recommendations to senior leadership to drive timely decisions and unblock obstacles.
• Drive disciplined advocacy and structured problem-solving with coverage teams and product leaders across single family, multifamily, and master-planned / multidisciplinary opportunities.
• Review internal and external research and data on market-level housing affordability constraints, including demographic and market trends and the evolving policy landscape.
• Co-develop executive-ready strategy papers/whitepapers, memos, and board-level materials in partnership with Corporate Responsibility (CR) policy and research teams, ensuring recommendations are specific, implementable, measurable, and decision-oriented.
• Identify scalable financing and structuring innovations and codify “what works” so it can be replicated across markets.
• Evaluate and highlight federal, state, and local programs and partnership opportunities that can stimulate housing creation and preservation.
• Facilitate senior relationships with housing authorities, municipal/state stakeholders, economic development organizations, nonprofit housing groups, and industry associations in partnership with coverage teams.
• Coordinate across key business lines, run working groups with clear charters, and ensure best practices, playbooks, and market insights translate into pipeline and execution.
• Structure, run, and follow through on Steering Committee (SteerCo) agendas, pre-reads, decisions, action tracking, and briefing materials for senior executives and high-stakes external meetings.