Director of Community Resilience

12 hours ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States Enterprise Community Partners Full time
Job Title: Director, Community Resilience

Enterprise Community Partners is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director, Community Resilience to lead our Community Resilience practice area. This role will focus on either economic resilience or climate resilience, and will be based in one of our offices across the country.

About the Role:

The Director, Community Resilience will be responsible for managing a portfolio of work and staff within the Community Resilience practice area. This includes serving as a subject matter expert on economic resilience or climate resilience, developing the Community Resilience (Economy or Climate) body of work, and supervising 3-5 staff members. The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of economic and climate resilience, as well as experience working with disadvantaged communities and delivering technical assistance/consulting services to local governments.

Responsibilities:
  • Manage a portfolio of work and staff within the Community Resilience practice area.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on economic resilience or climate resilience.
  • Develop the Community Resilience (Economy or Climate) body of work, including strategy, services offered, approaches, and business development opportunities.
  • Supervise 3-5 staff members and support their professional development.
  • Lead and manage technical assistance assignments and other projects, including scoping, defining the approach and team, budgeting, selecting and managing the project team, reviewing products, and ensuring the project aligns with Enterprise's mission and our partners' needs.
  • Serve as a team member on technical assistance assignments and other projects.
  • Build and maintain relationships with clients, funders, subcontractors, partner organizations, and other teams within Enterprise.
  • Review and provide feedback on work products and approaches by other staff and subcontractors to provide insight, support staff development, and to ensure quality control and performance management.
  • Engage with and/or represent Enterprise with industry peer groups.
  • Inform the development or refinement of Enterprise Advisors strategy, policies, and procedures.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.
  • Travel to out-of-town work assignments and team meetings, as required.
Qualifications:
  • A bachelor's degree required, graduate degree in a related field preferred.
  • A minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience required. A graduate degree may substitute up to three (3) years of required experience.
  • A minimum of five (5) years demonstrated ability to manage staff and teams, and support professional development required.
  • Experience working with or delivering technical assistance/consulting services to local governments; working with disadvantaged communities (e.g. Justice40 communities), and/or fiscally distressed local governments preferred.
  • Excellent grammar, editing, and proofreading skills to produce high-quality written products.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly and concisely express thoughts and ideas verbally and in writing.
  • Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple, complex activities and responsibilities while meeting deadlines.
  • Demonstrated strong initiative and ability to proactively identify needs and solve problems.
  • Experience cultivating effective working relationships with diverse partners and clients.
  • Experience developing and/or implementing strategies for inclusive stakeholder and community engagement.
  • Familiarity with how climate risk and resilience relate to economic risk and resilience.
  • To qualify with a focus on Climate Resilience, candidate also must:
    • Demonstrated understanding of and experience assessing existing and projected climate risk.
    • Experience conducting climate risk assessments; climate resilience planning; and climate mitigation, resilience, and/or adaptation strategies, especially as they relate to housing and community development and/or land use and zoning.
    • Demonstrated deep understanding and familiarity with the funding and financing opportunities available to communities to advance climate resilience.
    • Demonstrated experience partnering with or working for relevant federal partners, such as HUD, DOE, EPA, FEMA, or others.
    • Demonstrated experience working with partners in climate resilience industry and with partners on housing and community development efforts.
  • To qualify with a focus on Economic Resilience, candidate also must:
    • Demonstrated deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing economically distressed and disinvested communities.
    • Experience working with and for economically distressed and disinvested, marginalized, and/or divided communities.
    • Experience with conducting economic risk assessments and with developing economic recovery, resilience, and development plans and strategies, especially as they relate to housing and community development and/or land use and zoning.
    • Demonstrated deep understanding and familiarity with the resources available to distressed and disinvested communities to advance economic resilience.
    • Demonstrated experience partnering with or working for relevant federal partners, such as HUD, SBA, EDA, DOL, Commerce, or others.
    • Demonstrated experience working with partners in economic development industry and with partners on housing and community development efforts.
Total Rewards at Enterprise:

Enterprise offers a comprehensive total rewards package for you and your family. The base salary for this role is $125,000 to $143,000, depending on level of skills and experience. The salary range for this position is represented by the low and high end of the range for the amount to be paid for the position. Salaries paid at Enterprise will vary based on factors that may include skills, education, location, experience, and performance. The salary range is just a part of the total rewards package provided to employees at Enterprise, and other rewards may include annual performance bonuses and generous paid leave programs.

At Enterprise, our benefits form a major component of our total rewards package. Benefits include dental, health, and vision care plans, as well as family-building benefits, such as fertility, adoption, surrogacy support, and gender-affirming care. Enterprise allows flexible work arrangements to promote a better work-life balance. We offer health advocacy, EAP, and mental health benefits. We round out our total rewards package by offering financial education, wellness programs, and auto-enrollment in the company's 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions. Finally, you will have learning and development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement for job-related courses and certifications.

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