The Henrico County Department of Planning is hiring for a county planner position in our Comprehensive Planning Division.

This position in the Comprehensive Planning Division is responsible for researching, analyzing, and preparing staff reports for the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors for rezoning, amendments to proffers, provisional use permits, and special studies and white papers. This position provides front-line customer service; meets with planning commissioners, developers, attorneys, residents, and elected officials; and attends community meetings to provide guidance and recommendations for land development.

The ideal candidate will have: extensive knowledge of the principles and practices of planning and zoning, including some familiarity with statistics, economics and sociology; good knowledge of the laws and regulations relating to the area of planning to which the position is assigned; relevant knowledge of the principles and practices of civil engineering and of building construction practices and methods as they relate to the position to which assigned; ability to perform or oversee technical research work, and to give reliable advice and assistance on planning problems; ability to express ideas both orally and in writing in a clear and concise manner; and the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, elected and appointed officials, other agencies and the public.

County Planner II ($55,834 – $102,710)- Possession of a master’s degree in urban planning or a related field and two (2) years of professional planning experience; OR, any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities. AICP Certification preferred.

The position is currently scheduled to close on Monday, March 27, 2023. Applicants can access the job sites portal at http://henrico.us/services/jobs.

Greetings DCRP:

This job is a fantastic opportunity to join an innovative organization to help make an immediate impact on the affordable housing crisis throughout Vermont’s rural and urban localities. You will have the opportunity to learn about development risk analysis and underwriting on the job through collaborating with experienced colleagues, while taking responsibility for supporting the closing, construction and completion of affordable multifamily projects that VHCB funds. You will get exposure to a range of different affordable housing types, from large LIHTC developments to low-barrier shelters to shared equity homeownership. Since its founding in the late 1980s, VHCB is a unique quasi-governmental organization that continues to thoughtfully merge the issues of conservation and development to support our statutory mission.

I am a DCRP alum (’07) and would love to speak to anyone who is interested in learning more. Email me at e.phillips@vhcb.org. Instructions for applying for the job are on our website.

The Town of Apex is looking to hire two Parks and Greenways Planning Interns. We have posted the position at
https://apexnc.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home?c=apexnc

Attached is a brief overview that can be shared, but this is a full time summer/ part time school year position that provides a broad look into the public planning process. While work
tasks are assigned in the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department, we work closely and in conjunction with the Town’s Planning and Transportation team. We have had students in the past who have been completing their Masters in GIS and Landscape
Architecture degrees, but many have had undergraduate degrees in the Planning discipline and find that those skills are well suited for many of our work tasks.

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The Executive Director (ED) is the key management leader of PCC responsible for overseeing the leadership, programs, grants, strategic plan, and administration of the organization. The position reports
directly to the Board of Directors which is composed of council members from its ten-county region.
Position is open until filled but for first consideration apply by March 20.

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APPLY ONLINE: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/raleighnc/jobs/3943876/construction-project-coordinator

The Housing and Neighborhoods Department is committed to improving and maintaining the quality of life and environment for all Raleigh citizens through a variety of programs and activities throughout the city, including citywide first-time homeownership loans, gap financing for affordable rental housing, funds for rehabilitation of existing housing stock, and housing initiatives for people experiencing homelessness.

The Construction Project Coordinator’s role is key to the successful implementation of housing and community development programs and services. This position manages various construction projects, particularly related to capital improvements and ongoing operations of the Studios at 2800, a City-owned extended stay hotel. Many activities are carried out through third parties, which involves contracts and contract administration, loan agreements and loan administration, and the issuance of NOFAs and RFPs and other instruments. Work also includes implementing elements of the City’s Strategic Plan relative to affordable housing and related areas and ensuring compliance with federal regulations and local and departmental policies.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Consults with the Construction Manager and other departmental staff to evaluate construction activities, determine operational objectives, and meeting overall program goals.
• Manages capital improvements and overall property/project management activities related to the City-owned extended stay hotel, the Studios at 2800.
• Reviews construction/rehabilitation plans and specifications, performs work and site inspections, and ensures compliance with applicable laws, codes, ordinances, and regulations.
• Prepares, issues, advertises, and evaluates responses to Requests for Bids (RFBs) and Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for construction activities.
• Composes and manages construction contracts including renewals and amendments, collecting reports and documentation, and processing payments.
• Manages the work of consultants, including architects, engineers, and land planners. Reviews and approves payments.
• Gathers program and project data for reporting to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the City’s Strategic Plan, and other reports.
• Conducts Davis-Bacon and Section 3 monitoring and reporting, as well as Environmental Review checklists as needed, and creates and updates policies and procedures related to Section 3 monitoring, Davis-Bacon monitoring, and other construction and compliance activities.
• Prepares recommendation memos and agenda materials for City Council approval, as needed. Attends public meetings and events and participates on committees to provide information on projects, programs, and activities.

Project Manager for the Division of Neighborhood Development and Stabilization
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About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the nation’s largest municipal housing preservation and development agency. Its mission is to promote quality housing and diverse, thriving neighborhoods for New Yorkers through loan and development programs for new affordable housing, preservation of the affordability of the existing housing stock, enforcement of housing quality standards, rental subsidies, and educational programs for tenants and building owners. HPD is tasked with fulfilling Mayor Adams’s housing plan “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness”, a comprehensive framework which includes $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the administration’s planned investment to $22 billion — the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with an aggressive effort to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s affordable housing crisis and bolster access to opportunity, promote economic stability and mobility, improve health and safety, and increase racial equity.

Your Team:

The Office of Neighborhood Strategies (ONS) is charged with ensuring that HPD’s development and preservation efforts are guided by meaningful community engagement and coordinated with public investments in infrastructure and services, as put forth in the Mayor’s Housing Plan.

ONS is composed of two divisions and a cross-divisional unit reporting to the First Deputy Commissioner:

• The Division of Planning & Predevelopment (P&P) is central to developing and managing HPD’s housing production pipeline from project proposal phases through the land use review and entitlement process, to ensure that HPD’s investments contribute to building strong, healthy, resilient neighborhoods in all five boroughs.
• The Division of Neighborhood Development & Stabilization (ND&S) leads the agency’s commitment to neighborhood planning and strategic preservation through engagement with tenants, landlords, community leaders, and neighborhood stakeholders as we work to enable strong and healthy neighborhoods anchored by affordable housing.
• The Strategic Initiatives Unit leads special ONS initiatives and provides essential technical, planning, and policy support to staff and the First Deputy Commissioner.

Your Impact:

As the Project Manager for Tenant Engagement and Special Projects for the Division of Neighborhood Development and Stabilization, you will support the development, management, and implementation of innovative programs to educate tenants about their rights and available resources and to protect them from landlord harassment and displacement. This team implements these strategies in close collaboration with a wide range of community stakeholders. The Partners in Preservation program, a data-driven initiative first launched by HPD in 2019, is one of the core programs the Project Manager will support. Responding to increased speculation, harassment, and displacement in rent-regulated housing, the agency developed Partners in Preservation to foster closer collaboration between tenant organizing groups, government agencies, and legal services providers to stabilize tenants. The program is highlighted in Mayor Adams’s housing plan as a key initiative to preserve rent-regulated housing and counteract tenant harassment. As a result the program is expanding citywide this year.

Your Role:

The Division of Neighborhood Development and Stabilization is seeking an enthusiastic candidate with tenant or community organizing experience, excellent project management and policy analysis skills, knowledge of housing and other issues, the ability to effectively collaborate with community and government partners, and a commitment to racial equity and social justice. Your role will be to help develop and implement the Citywide Partners in Preservation program, develop and lead new strategies to protect tenants from displacement, and conduct policy analysis on a wide range of tenant issues in close collaboration with other team members. The selected candidate will join a growing team with wide-ranging professional backgrounds and report to the Deputy Director.

Your Responsibilities:

Program Management

Help manage the Citywide Partners in Preservation program and serve as the primary project manager for one of the selected program target areas. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Assisting with the ongoing procurement process to select tenant organizing groups to implement the program
• Building and maintaining relationships with selected groups, program staff, and tenant organizing teams
• Facilitating regular strategy meetings with program staff and tenant organizers
• Coordinating both internally and externally to implement interventions in target buildings
• Respond to inquiries and provide strategic advice and information regarding municipal programs and procedures to tenant organizers
• Help develop and implement new programs to educate tenants about their rights and tenant organizers about the resources available to them to better protect tenants from landlord harassment and displacement, such as Tenant Clinics, Tenant Classes, and Tenant Organizer Trainings.
• Build relationships with and obtain input from a wide range of stakeholders, including community-based organizations (CBOs), legal services providers, residents, City and State agencies, Community Boards, and elected officials

Policy Analysis

• Identify issues that may necessitate policy solutions, conduct research on these issues, propose and advocate for potential solutions, which may involve seeding new projects

Communication

• At the discretion of the Deputy Director, represent the agency and the Tenant Engagement and Special Projects Unit at public meetings, resource fairs, tabling events, and other forums targeting tenants
• Develop goals and activities for public workshops and events, manage the logistics, prepare and facilitate presentations
• Create clearly articulated and compelling materials, such as presentations, maps, data visualizations, and plain-language explanations of complex policy issues for both internal and external audiences

Minimum Requirements:

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to “1” or “2” above. However, all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in “1” above

Preferred Skills:

• Professional Experience: A minimum of two years of professional experience in a related field is preferred. Experience with tenant organizing or providing legal services to tenants is strongly preferred.
• Project Management Skills: Proven ability to manage complex projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders; to receive direction and anticipate next steps; to think through, communicate, document, organize, and execute on project goals; to work independently and take initiative; and to meet deadlines.
• Subject-Matter Expertise: Knowledge of housing and other urban issues (with an emphasis on issues impacting low-income tenants) is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with New York government and housing issues and/or experience developing anti-displacement and preservation strategies in New York City or other high-cost cities is a plus.
• Commitment to Racial Equity and Social Justice: An understanding of the historic and systemic causes of social inequities and a proven commitment to undo these wrongs.
• Relationship-Building Skills: Ability to relate with people from different backgrounds and to present information clearly to people from different educational and literacy levels. Community organizing experience or provision of legal services serving tenants is a plus. Existing relationships with New York City CBOs and legal services providers supporting low-income tenants are welcomed.
• Creative Thinking and Problem Solving: Ability to think creatively, critically, and strategically, and to consider complex policy programs through both a micro-level and macro-level lens and from an equity perspective.
• Policy Analysis Skills: Experience conducting policy research and sharing findings in memoranda and reports preferred.
• Communication Skills: Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills. Proven ability to produce high-quality materials in a variety of formats for internal and external audiences and experience facilitating meetings.
• Good Judgment: Ability to analyze a situation, understand when additional input is needed, resolve issues independently, and escalate when appropriate.

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The Project Planner will support the implementation of a variety of real estate projects and community infrastructure programs along with ongoing planning research and design review efforts of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA). The Project Planner will work collaboratively as part of the CRA’s Planning and Development team, supporting the CRA’s research, analysis, project design, and community engagement efforts related to its redevelopment programs. This position reports to the Director of Projects and Planning.

While there is no typical day, examples of the kinds of activities the Project Planner will support include:

• Conducting neighborhood land use and data analysis to inform community investments,
• Evaluating potential project sites for affordable housing or community facilities,
• Providing support for nonprofit capital improvement grant programs,
• Assisting with evaluation of redevelopment projects, and
• Researching opportunities to enhance workforce development programming and transportation infrastructure

The Project Planner’s work is done indoors in a professional office setting in Kendall Square, as well as outdoors at various local project and meeting sites. This role requires attendance at some evening meetings. It is a full-time position with a 37.5-hour work week. The CRA operates within a permanent hybrid office and remote work structure where at least three days per week are spent in the office.

Respond no later than 5:00 PM on Monday, March 27, 2023 by sending an application consisting of your cover letter and resume as one PDF (maximum two pages) to planning@cambridgeredeveopment.org. Place “Project Planner” in the subject and attach your PDF. The CRA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity of experience, opinion, and approach.

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The Project Manager is a dynamic player on our small team who will lead community development initiatives for the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA). The Project Manager works collaboratively as part of the CRA’s Planning and Development team, managing the due diligence, planning, and implementation of a variety of real estate and community infrastructure projects. This position reports to the Director of Projects and Planning.

While there is no typical day, examples of the kinds of activities the Project Manager will support include:

• Developing and executing mission-driven residential and commercial real estate projects, often in coordination with a local partner,
• Planning, developing, and implementing community infrastructure projects and initiatives, including open space and transportation facilities,
• Planning new neighborhood investment strategies consistent with the CRA’s Strategic Plan including loan and grant programs for local organizations and community partners,
• Conducting outreach to diverse stakeholder groups and strategic partners to identify new projects, and
• Communicating about the work with a range of audiences, via written materials, CRA website content, public meetings, and at other community events.

The Project Manager’s work is done indoors in a professional office setting in Kendall Square, as well as outdoors at various local project and meeting sites. This role requires attendance at some evening meetings. It is a full-time position with a 37.5-hour work-week. The CRA operates within a permanent hybrid office and remote work structure where at least three days per week are spent in the office.

Respond no later than 5:00 PM on Monday, March 27, 2023 by sending an application consisting of your cover letter and resume as a PDF (maximum two pages) to planning@cambridgeredeveopment.org. Place “Project Manager” in the subject and attach your PDF. The CRA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity of experience, opinion, and approach.

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The Senior Project Manager is a dynamic leader on our small team who will lead large and complex community development initiatives for the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA). The Senior Project Manager works collaboratively as part of the CRA’s Planning and Development team, designing and leading the due diligence, planning, and implementation of a variety of real estate and community infrastructure projects. This position reports to the Director of Projects and Planning.

While there is no typical day, examples of the kinds of activities the Senior Project Manager will support include:

• Leading mission-driven residential and commercial real estate projects, often in coordination with a local partner,
• Planning, developing, and implementing community infrastructure projects and initiatives, including open space and transportation facilities,
• Facilitating new neighborhood investment strategies consistent with the CRA’s Strategic Plan including loan and grant programs for local organizations,
• Conducting outreach to diverse stakeholder groups and strategic partners to identify new projects, and
• Communicating about the work with a range of audiences, via written materials, CRA website content, public meetings, and at other community events.

The Senior Project Manager’s work is done indoors in a professional office setting in Kendall Square, as well as outdoors at various local project and meeting sites. This role requires attendance at some evening meetings. It is a full-time position with a 37.5-hour work-week. The CRA operates within a permanent hybrid office and remote work structure where at least three days per week are spent in the office.

Respond no later than 5:00 PM on Monday, March 27, 2023 by sending an application consisting of your cover letter and resume as a PDF (maximum two pages) to planning@cambridgeredeveopment.org. Place “Senior Project Manager” in the subject and attach your PDF. The CRA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and values diversity of experience, opinion, and approach.

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LUCHA is seeking a Project Manager to join the Community Development team in directing LUCHA’s pipeline of community-driven affordable housing development projects. With the oversight and support of LUCHA’s Director of Community Development and Executive Director, the Project Manager will oversee two or more developments at a time, advancing all aspects of the development process from concept development through acquisition, construction and initial occupancy. LUCHA’s 2023 development pipeline includes the adaptive reuse of a church in Logan Square, an 89-unit new construction development in Humboldt Park, and the development of a new office/community center. We’re seeking a committed and energetic individual aligned with LUCHA’s mission. An ideal candidate will enjoy collaborating with a team and have experience working in the real estate development field. Flexibility and creative problem-solving are key traits. LUCHA will invest in staff development through training and mentorship, and the individual in this role will have opportunity for growth and contribution to the department’s strategy and direction. Specific and essential duties of the Project Manager may include:

Oversee project conception, site and market research, zoning analysis, and financial feasibility.

Prepare and maintain project budgets, operating proformas, and schedules. Assemble and manage the development team. Oversee design process to achieve project goals within project budgets and funding requirements.

Lead all aspects of project financing, including identifying funding sources, completing funding applications, liaising with project funders and syndicators, and managing closings and acquisitions. Funding applications may include for-profit and not-for-profit lenders, City of Chicago and IHDA Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB), City of Chicago TIF, and others.

Lead all aspects of project construction including contractor selection and negotiation, draw meetings and site visits, and construction draws.

Engage local community organizers and leaders, tenants and neighbors, and elected officials to build support for projects. Lead public presentations and prepare materials for external communications.

Duties as assigned by the Executive Director and the Director of Community Development.

2 Qualifications and Skills: Candidates must have:

3 or more years of experience in real estate development, real estate finance, construction, architecture, urban planning or other related field, with progressively responsible work managing complex projects or initiatives. A master’s degree in urban planning, architecture, business or other related field can be substituted for one year of experience.

Experience managing substantial portions of 1-2 real estate development projects. Examples of involvement could include proforma analysis, preparing or evaluating financing applications, real estate closings, design, and construction scoping and budgeting.

Familiarity with affordable housing and the regulations and financing applicable to the industry, especially the LIHTC program.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Experience writing memos, narratives, presentations and financing and grant applications.

Experience working effectively in a team environment and building relationships with people of diverse cultural, economic and racial backgrounds.

Integrity and commitment to LUCHA’s mission and values. Strong candidates will have one or more of the following:

3 or more years of experience working on LIHTC or other affordable rental housing developments.

Experience with community engagement, including presentations to the public, elected officials and other stakeholders.

Bilingual (English and Spanish) writing and speaking skills.

Direct experience working with housing finance programs and agencies such as LIHTC, HUD, IHDA, and the City of Chicago Department of Housing.

Experience with sustainable design and green building certification programs. Job Requirements:

Ability to travel and attend occasional meetings on weeknights or weekends.

Accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities who otherwise meet the position qualifications and requirements. This position regularly requires the employee to sit, stand, speak, and operate a personal computer. Occasionally, walking and lifting up to 30 pounds may be required. The employee may be required to access sites and buildings under construction, which requires balance and ability to climb as needed.

LUCHA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and an equal opportunity employer.

Current COVID-19 policies include mandatory vaccination. At this time, the position is a hybrid role with scheduled days working from home and working from LUCHA’s office each week. Benefits include medical, dental, vision and 401(k) employer match.