Director, Housing & Community Development

GGFOA; Augusta (GA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia Local Government Access Marketplace is seeking a senior administrator to lead housing and community development programs, ensuring alignment with state and federal guidelines and delivering measurable economic impact for communities.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in Business or Public Administration or related field, at least five years managing housing projects and supervising staff, plus strong budgeting, negotiation, and analytical skills to coordinate with multiple agencies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Five years of progressively responsible experience in managing housing and community development programs, including lead or supervisory experience.
• Strong knowledge of administration, budgeting, and credit analysis.
• Familiarity with community planning and housing/urban economic development concepts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to negotiate, solve problems, and communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders.

Skills

Budgeting

Credit & collateral analysis

Administration management

Supervision

Community planning

Housing development

Negotiation

Problem solving

Communication

Data interpretation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Public Administration, Community Development, or related field

Job description

Georgia Local Government Access Marketplace

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Public Administration, Community Development, or related field.

Experience

Five years of progressively responsible experience in managing housing and community development programs, to include lead or supervisory experience.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Considerable knowledge of principles and practices of administration management, supervision, budgeting, and credit and collateral analysis.
• Familiarity with the concepts and theories of community planning and housing and urban economic development.
• Proficiency in applying the principles of negotiating, problem solving, and communication.
• Mastery of interpreting government regulatory requirements, economic development federal programs, and federal structure for housing development.
• Demonstrated executive level written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Ability to effectively communicate, cooperate, and collaborate with multiple levels of employees, government officials, government agencies, and external partners.

Licensing/Certification

• Possession of a valid driver’s license with good driving history. If State license is other than Georgia or South Carolina, applicant must obtain a license in Georgia or South Carolina within 30 days of employment.

PERFORMANCE APTITUDES

• Data Utilization:Requires the ability to synthesize and integrate data for predicting, anticipating, and planning for future events impacting the organization. Includes determining strategic and tactical decisions at the highest organizational levels of authority and responsibility.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to function in a director capacity for a major organizational unit requiring significant internal and external interaction, includingability to apply principles of negotiation. Performs such in formal situations within the context of legal guidelines.
• Equipment: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver, and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal:Requires the ability to utilize consulting and advisory data and information, as well as reference, descriptive and/or design data and information as applicable.
• Math: Requires the ability to perform mathematical operations associated with budgeting, performance measures, and strategic planning, etc.
• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to implement both intellectual and practical relationships; involves responsibility for consideration and analysis of complex organizational problems of major conceptual functions.
• Situational Reasoning:Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in critical and/or unexpected situations involving moderate risk to the organization.
• Physical Abilities: Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (5-10 pounds). Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.
• Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
• Environmental Factors: Essential functions are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.