Head of Affordable Housing Operations Platform

Collective Residential; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range: $200,000 - $225,000

Bonus potential

Medical, dental, vision, 401(k)

Job summary

Collective Residential is building a centralized Affordable Housing Operations platform to unify operations, leadership, best practices, and oversight across a growing portfolio of affordable housing communities and management companies. The SVP will lead this enterprise program as the company grows primarily through acquisition.

This is a builder and enterprise leadership role, not a day-to-day compliance position.

Qualifications

• 10-15+ years of progressive leadership experience in affordable housing property management, operations, asset management, or a related field, including significant senior/executive-level responsibility.
• Demonstrated leadership across affordable housing portfolios with knowledge of LIHTC, HUD programs, Section 8, HOME Funds, bond-financed housing, and related programs.
• Strong operational leadership with a track record of building, restructuring, integrating, or scaling teams and operating platforms.
• Experience evaluating organizations and recommending improvements to structure, staffing, processes, systems, and accountability.
• Experience with acquisitions, M&A integration, multi-company environments, shared services, or other complex organizational integrations preferred.
• Ability to provide senior-level compliance oversight without day-to-day compliance administration.
• Strong relationships with HUD, state housing finance agencies, syndicators, investors, auditors, and affordable housing developers.
• Experience with Yardi or comparable property management/compliance systems.
• Exceptional communication, judgment, relationship-building, and change-management skills.
• Comfortable operating in a matrixed environment, influencing portfolio leaders while establishing centralized standards and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the centralized Affordable Housing Platform across the portfolio, establishing structure, staffing, accountability, and leadership cadence.
• Lead Acquisition Integration & Organizational Development: oversee integration of operations from acquired companies, assess structures and processes, and recommend the best model.
• Establish Operational Standards & Best Practices: develop scalable standards, policies, procedures, reporting, and performance expectations.
• Provide Compliance Oversight: senior-level oversight of affordable housing compliance across LIHTC, HUD, Section 8, HOME, bond-financed programs.
• Lead Risk Management & Regulatory Strategy: create a framework to identify, monitor, and address compliance and operational risk.
• Lead External Relationships: represent the company with HUD, state housing finance agencies, syndicators, investors, auditors and other stakeholders.
• Drive Systems, Reporting & Technology: evaluate and improve systems and data, including Yardi.
• Support Growth, Acquisitions & New Business: provide operational and compliance leadership for growth initiatives.
• Partner Across the Organization: connect corporate leadership with portfolio leaders and property operations.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Change management

Stakeholder mgmt

Regulatory oversight

Tools

Yardi

MS Office

Job description

Collective Residential is building a centralized Affordable Housing Operations platform to unify operations, leadership, best practices, and oversight across a growing portfolio of affordable housing communities and management companies. The SVP will lead this enterprise program as the company grows primarily through acquisition.

This is a builder and enterprise leadership role, not a day-to-day compliance position.