Senior CDBG-DR Housing Recovery Lead

Michael Baker International; United States; On-site; USD 104,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Life, AD&D, disability

Job summary

Tidal Basin, a Michael Baker company, is seeking a CDBG-DR Housing Subject Matter Expert to serve as a senior technical authority for owner-occupied housing recovery programs, translating HUD requirements into actionable program design and operations.

You will lead cross-functional teams, develop policies, and ensure audit-ready controls across federal, state, tribal, and local clients from startup through closeout. Strong leadership and complex problem-solving are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in housing, public administration, planning, public policy, business, construction, engineering, architecture, emergency management, law, or a related field.
• At least ten years of progressive housing, community development, disaster recovery, grants management, construction, or public-sector program experience.
• Substantial hands-on leadership responsibility across one or more CDBG-DR homeowner recovery allocations, including program design, implementation, technical oversight, monitoring, or corrective action.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex requirements, advise executive stakeholders, resolve cross-functional issues, and produce clear, defensible technical work products.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and the ability to direct work performed in client and company systems.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on homeowner recovery strategy, program architecture, delivery models, organizational design, staffing, governance, implementation sequencing, and risk.
• Design or review rehabilitation, reconstruction, replacement, reimbursement, elevation, mitigation, manufactured housing, and related housing program models.
• Develop and review policies, procedures, manuals, forms, agreements, notices, checklists, decision tools, operating controls, quality plans, and training materials.
• Provide technical direction on eligibility, national objective, income, ownership, occupancy, primary residence, disaster impact, unmet need, duplication of benefits, award methodology, caps, incentives, exceptions, and recapture.
• Integrate environmental review, floodplain and wetlands requirements, lead-based paint, accessibility, fair housing, insurance, elevation, mitigation, inspections, construction standards, and closeout requirements into program operations.
• Establish applicant agreements, escrow and payment controls, contractor requirements, progress and final inspection protocols, change management, warranty, and recordkeeping expectations.
• Resolve complex, novel, disputed, or high-risk cases and prepare defensible issue papers, decision memoranda, policy interpretations, and executive recommendations.
• Define decision authority, escalation criteria, maker-checker controls, approval thresholds, exception procedures, sampling, quality standards, and segregation of duties.
• Develop caseload, throughput, cycle-time, aging, first-pass quality, rework, applicant contact, construction, expenditure, and closeout performance standards that balance speed, accuracy, fairness, and compliance.
• Guide case management and grants system requirements, business rules, role-based access, data conversion, user acceptance testing, reporting, document controls, and audit trail design.
• Support HUD coordination, monitoring, audits, appeals, complaints, investigations, findings responses, corrective action plans, records requests, and grant closeout.
• Lead technical reviews, calibration, training, and mentoring for housing specialists, case managers, eligibility personnel, reviewers, supervisors, and managers.
• Coordinate with policy, legal, environmental, civil rights, construction, inspections, finance, compliance, data, systems, communications, and program leadership.
• Support proposals, capture strategy, client presentations, staffing models, technical approaches, and thought leadership related to housing recovery.
• Perform other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned to meet project, client, and organizational needs.

Skills

Strategic advisory

Cross-functional collaboration

Policy interpretation

Executive stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in housing/public administration/planning

Master’s degree or equivalent credential (e.g., JD, AICP, PMP, CCM, PE, RA, CFM)

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

Tidal Basin, a Michael Baker company, is seeking a CDBG-DR Housing Subject Matter Expert to serve as a senior technical authority for owner-occupied housing recovery programs, translating HUD requirements into actionable program design and operations.

You will lead cross-functional teams, develop policies, and ensure audit-ready controls across federal, state, tribal, and local clients from startup through closeout. Strong leadership and complex problem-solving are essential.