Housing Implementation Sector Lead

ICF International; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF's Disaster Management Division seeks a Senior Director, Housing Implementation (Sector Lead) to direct a major sector within the HUD Line of Business, with accountability for growth, delivery quality, financial performance, and people leadership across ICF's housing implementation portfolio. This remote U.S.

senior leadership role guides single-family housing recovery programs and resilience initiatives for state, local, territorial, utility, and developer clients.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive experience in disaster recovery, housing, or community development.
• Proven track record leading large sector teams and delivering complex portfolios.
• Strong understanding of HUD programs, procurement and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define sector strategy and market positioning to guide the housing implementation practice.
• Drive business development from opportunity identification through capture, pricing, and win strategies.
• Oversee portfolio delivery with project managers, ensuring standards, controls, and on-time, on-budget execution.
• Lead sector staff development, succession planning, and high-performance culture.
• Collaborate across sectors to remove barriers and enable client success.

Skills

Disaster recovery

Housing implementation

Strategic planning

People leadership

Business development

Financial management

Job description

ICF's Disaster Management Division seeks a Senior Director, Housing Implementation (Sector Lead) to direct a major sector within the HUD Line of Business, with accountability for business growth, delivery quality, financial performance, and people leadership across ICF's housing implementation portfolio. This Remote U.S. senior leadership role guides single-family housing recovery programs, construction management and resilient housing initiatives for state, local, territorial, utility, and developer clients.

The Sector Lead establishes the strategy and direction for the housing implementation practice in alignment with Line of Business and Division strategic plans. The role leads through an experienced management team rather than through direct project delivery and holds three interlocking accountabilities: growing the sector's book of business, managing sector staff for high performance, and ensuring consistent delivery across all projects in the portfolio.

This is an opportunity for an experienced disaster recovery, grant management, operations, and housing leader to shape a business-critical sector, build trusted client relationships, develop leadership talent, ensure operational excellence across project teams, and deliver sustained growth and quality across a complex national portfolio.

Responsibilities:

Sector Strategy and Market Position

• Establish multi-year sector strategy and annual operating goals using housing expertise, HUD policy and funding direction, market trends, competitive intelligence, and company priorities.
• Anticipate and address complex housing implementation challenges, including changes in CDBG-DR program design, procurement practices, delivery models, and resilience funding.
• Strengthen ICF's market position as a thought leader by representing the company with clients, industry groups, and conferences and contributing to Line of Business and Division planning.

Business Development and Growth

• Lead sector growth from opportunity identification through capture, teaming, proposal strategy, pricing, and bid/no-bid recommendations in partnership with Line of Business, account, and business development leaders.
• Achieve $40 million in annual sales and maintain a qualified pipeline of at least $100 million, with disciplined quarterly review of coverage, quality, risk, and conversion assumptions.
• Build senior client relationships, influence key decisions, and expand cross-sector and cross-Line of Business opportunities by connecting clients with ICF's full capabilities.

Portfolio, Financial, and Delivery Oversight

• Own sector financial performance, including $30 million in recognized annual revenue, $40 million in contract awards, a $100 million qualified pipeline, profitability, margin, utilization, and backlog burn.
• Direct portfolio delivery through Project Managers and senior managers, establishing consistent standards, controls, quality benchmarks, staffing, and early intervention for projects that are off plan.
• Balance client satisfaction, execution, innovation, profitability, and risk while ensuring compliance with CDBG-DR regulations, locality specific program policies and procedures, 2 CFR 200 and other state-specific financial and procurement requirements, applicable relocation requirements, building codes, and other client-specific requirements.

People Leadership and Talent Development

• Lead the sector through subordinate managers and senior managers, with accountability for workforce planning, hiring, staffing, bench management, performance, engagement, and succession depth.
• Develop leadership talent through mentoring, Impact Conversations, internal mobility, and clear alignment between individual roles, the sector strategy, and business goals.
• Create an inclusive, high-performing environment and provide calm, decisive leadership during challenges, constraints, and post-disaster surge conditions.

Cross-Organizational Leadership

• Lead collaboration across sector and Line of Business boundaries, removing barriers to sharing staff, capabilities, and client relationships.
• Champion ICF's strategy, mission, and direction while fostering timely decision-making, agility, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Engage stakeholders in critical cross-organizational decisions to resolve staffing, resource, and client-ownership issues and achieve aligned outcomes.

Measures of Success

• Achieve annual revenue, sales, pipeline, profitability, qualification discipline, and win-rate goals established in the approved operating plan.
• Deliver consistent quality demonstrated through client satisfaction, strong CPARS and past-performance ratings, on-time and on-budget execution, and no material compliance findings.
• Advance talent and organizational outcomes through retention, internal promotion, engagement, succession depth, cross-sector collaboration, and strategic initiative leadership.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS :

12+ years of progressive experience in disaster recovery, housing, or community development