Director of Real Estate

Island Housing Trust (IHT) seeks a motivated and experienced affordable housing developer to lead our Real Estate Department. IHT is the leading non-profit developer of year-round, affordable housing on the island of Martha’s Vineyard (MA). We are an active and growing Community Development Corporation (CDC) and a Community Land Trust (CLT), supporting a diverse and vital community.

Over the past 16 years, IHT has developed 140 homeownership and rental units for year-round low-and-moderate-income individuals and families throughout Martha’s Vineyard. Our mission is to help eliminate housing insecurity in our community by creating an additional 150 year-round ownership and rental homes, together with our partners and supporters, by the end of 2025.

IHT currently has a staff of 10 part-time and full-time employees, an active board of 13 directors, an annual operating budget of $1.6 million and assets of over $30 million.

The Director of Real Estate will have primary responsibility for leading and supporting the implementation of IHT’s dynamic and growing real estate activities, including direct supervision of the Project Director and oversight of the project and program development and asset management efforts of the department. They will report to the CEO, and will collaborate closely with the CEO and CFO.

Please submit a cover letter, detailing your interest and qualifications for this position, along with a resume to: Island Housing Trust- Director of Real Estate search, through this link: https://annlsilverman.com/iht-real-estate-director/. Any questions should be addressed to jobs@annlsilverman.com.

All applications will be acknowledged when they are received. IHT seeks to fill this position during the first half of 2023.