Senior Vice President, Impact Investment

BACKGROUND

The Organization

Grounded Solutions Network (GSN) is the nation’s largest network of practitioners and advocates dedicated to expanding shared equity models and other innovative approaches that keep housing affordable for generations. GSN’s work is guided by a clear and powerful vision: a future where everyone has access to an affordable home in a community that supports health, education, economic opportunity, and long-term well-being.

As a national membership organization, Grounded Solutions equips the people advancing this work every day—including nonprofit and government practitioners, community resident leaders, advocates, elected officials, and housing professionals—with the tools, knowledge, and support they need to thrive. GSN advances the creation and preservation of high-quality, permanently affordable housing and center racial equity in every aspect of the work.

Grounded Solutions’ membership is comprised of funders, land trusts, housing developers, and other groups across the US. Staff provide technical assistance and policy guidance on the local, state and national levels. Programs include Homes for the Future and HomeKeeper, as well as creative financing and investment partnerships.

To continue Grounded Solutions’ impact and to support the growing number of investments, Grounded Solutions seeks a Senior Vice President, Impact Investment to develop financial partnerships that will support Grounded Solutions’ mission and grow its assets.

The Position

The Senior Vice President of Impact Investment will lead Grounded Solutions’ strategy for securing and deploying significant capital in ways that create real, measurable impact—socially, environmentally, and financially. The SVP will own the full investment lifecycle: sourcing, underwriting, structuring, closing, and ongoing portfolio management across debt, equity, and blended-finance instruments. Partnering closely with the executive team, board, and external capital partners (banks, foundations, government agencies, institutional investors), the SVP will grow Grounded Solutions’ assets under management, strengthen the organization’s impact, and increase the portfolio to enable Grounded Solutions to support future work and investments.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Strategy and Leadership

• Shape and drive Grounded Solutions’ impact investment strategy, keeping it aligned with mission priorities including affordable housing, community development, economic mobility, and climate resilience
• Lead capital strategy for growing and protecting multiple portfolios of permanently affordable, shared equity homes (through community land trust ground leases, limited equity cooperatives, or deed restrictions)
• Serve as a trusted senior voice on the leadership team, advising the CEO, as well as the President and Board of Managers of the Grounded Solutions Network Innovative Finance, LLC subsidiary, on multi-year acquisition fund strategy, capital sources, and long-term stewardship risk
• Be a visible, credible voice for GSN with investors, funders, public agencies, and the broader shared equity/community land trust field (including state housing finance agencies)
• Stay closely attuned to shared equity policy developments and to GSN’s members’ and partners’ capacity to put capital to work

Capital Raising and Investor Relations

• Secure low-cost loans and program-related investments that support portfolio growth goals
• Structure and layer the capital needed for strategic acquisitions and dispositions of single-family homes across multiple national markets
• Set thoughtful investment policies, underwriting standards, and risk parameters with credit/risk committees, accounting for the unique risk profile of affordable home assets (like rental or sales price restrictions)
• Lead capital raising efforts - CDFI capital, foundation grants, program-related investments, and federal, state, and local government sources - to fund acquisition and program needs
• Steward an increasingly diverse capital stack to balance strategic goals with smart risk management and strong balance sheet outcomes
• Keep internal fund management, liquidity, and capitalization strategies sound, with a high standard of care and prudent risk management
• Build and nurture relationships with private banking, investment portfolio managers, and partners
• Support the Grounded Solutions Network Innovative Finance, LLC subsidiary Board of Managers with expert insight on risk related to liquidity, asset-liability matching, portfolio losses, and interest rate margins

Impact Measurement

• Build and oversee the frameworks to track affordability preservation, homeowner wealth-building outcomes, portfolio retention, and resale/foreclosure trends across the home portfolio
• Track the metr