Community Development Manager

Spirit League; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SOMOS Mayfair is seeking a Community Development Manager to lead community engagement, organizing, and development strategies for the Mayfair Neighborhood in East San José. The role coordinates with the Mayfair Neighborhood Trust, Sí Se Puede Collective, and SSPC partners to align programs with local economic and cultural development.

The Manager will strengthen resident leadership, foster community ownership, and drive social, cultural, and economic initiatives while ensuring housing stability

Job description

Community Development Manager Job Summary:

The Community Development Manager is a key position within SOMOS Mayfair’s Community Organizing Department that leads community engagement, organizing, and community benefit strategies as part of the Mayfair Neighborhood. The Community Development Manager will hold responsibility to steward our Building Our Home vision map and align efforts with existing and emerging economic and community development institutions. The Manager will ensure the Mayfair Neighborhood Trust (MNT), a long-term community-driven development strategy led by the Mexican Heritage Plaza and SOMOS Mayfair, will foster equitable development. The MNT seeks to strengthen community ownership, prevent displacement, and ensure that Mayfair residents can remain, thrive, and shape the future of their neighborhood. The MNT will be a key driver in creating spaces for social, cultural, and economic development in East San José. The Build Our Home Manager will also work closely with La Esquina, an economic development partnership between SOMOS Mayfair, Latino Business Foundation, and Excite Credit Union and our SSPC partners to align programmatic strategies with development opportunities. As a result, The Build Our Home Manager will ensure residents to have permanence, housing security, economic development, cultural regeneration and community ownership of assets.

The Manager strengthens community power, resident leadership, and community-driven development by engaging residents, youth, Alum Rock Union School District/Mayfair families, and community stakeholders in shaping and advancing neighborhood development priorities. Through participatory planning and community engagement strategies, the Manager helps ensure community development initiatives are co-designed by children, youth and their families to reflect the community’s aspirations for equitable development, economic mobility, cultural preservation, and long-term neighborhood permanence.

Serving as a bridge between community members, public agencies, nonprofit partners, and development initiatives, the Manager coordinates efforts to advance the Mayfair Neighborhood Trust’s priorities, including land banking, commercial and housing acquisition opportunities, community planning, activation of neighborhood spaces, and community benefit strategies. The Manager will work closely with the Sí Se Puede Collective (SSPC) partners, La Esquina Partners, public and private institutions, and other strategic partners to create programmatic alignment security resources for development projects. The Build Our Home Manager will also co-lead the MNT’s Community Benefits Committee to ensure community residents are part of the neighborhood's development decision making process. The Manager will work with MNT’s development and financial co workers to ensure we adhere to the Trust’s legal, fiduciary and financial responsibilities.

The Manager reports directly to SOMOS Mayfair’s Community Organizing and Policy Director and works collaboratively across SOMOS’ Departments and the SSPC to advance organizing campaigns, community development initiatives, policy efforts, and regional partnerships that build community power and lasting systems change. . The position works alongside the Community Organizing Program Manager to align community organizing, advocacy, and community development strategies that strengthen neighborhood leadership, advance equitable investment, and improve the quality of life for Mayfair residents.