Position Description
Work, Serve, Thrive. With the City of Durham
Advance in your career while making a real difference in the community you serve.
Hiring Range: $113,401 - $136,081
Work Day/Hours: Mon.- Fri. 8 am – 5 pm
If you're passionate about fostering communities where everyone has affordable housing, and neighborhoods thrive, the City of Durham is excited to invite you to consider the role of Assistant Director of Affordable Housing for the Housing and Neighborhood Services (HNS) Department.
The Assistant Director of Affordable Housing is an Executive Leadership position within the department focused on advancing our mission of creating affordable housing and strengthening neighborhoods. The ideal candidate will bring experience in team leadership, familiarity with affordable housing and community development, and commitment to public service.
This is an exciting time for the Housing and Neighborhood Services Department. The City’s Affordable Housing, Code Enforcement, and Human Relations teams were recently combined to create one department.
Collaboratively, the teams work together to execute the City Council's affordable housing and neighborhood services goals. The department is committed to fostering an environment where everyone on the team is empowered to lead and achieve results consistent with the Council's goals and the department's work plan.
Duties/Responsibilities
Department Executive Leadership: Serves as a member of the HNS Executive Leadership team, which includes three Assistant Director positions and the Department Director, who collaboratively provide strategic direction and leadership to the HNS department, consistent with direction from the City Manager’s Office and Council.
Strategic Leadership of Affordable Housing Work: Assists in directing the development and implementation of the City’s affordable housing work, including funding, development and preservation programs, and policy efforts.
Performance Management Systems: Leads a team in monitoring and reporting progress for the affordable housing components of the department’s performance management systems, including work plans, learning and development plans, and performance measures.
Personnel: Directs personnel functions, including supervising the Affordable Housing team, conducting employee performance evaluations, supporting department recruitment efforts; and participating in the hiring process and onboarding for new employee.
Performs other duties as required, including serving in an acting capacity as Department Director in their absence.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position supervises and monitors performance for a regular group of employees or department.
Knowledge Of
- Affordable housing tools and strategies
- Development finance, including the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)
- Relevant federal, state, and local ordinances, policies, and procedures, including HUD guidelines for affordable housing and community development
- Management and supervisory principles and practices
- Budgeting and financial management
- Performance management
Ability To
- Organize, prioritize, and manage workload and timelines for self and others
- Supervise, train, and evaluate assigned staff
- Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, residents, vendors, and community partners
- Model behaviors that are consistent with the City’s values
Minimum Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in public administration or a directly related field.
- Nine years of progressively responsible related experience.
- Professional experience must includes significant management and supervisory experience.
Additional Preferred Skills
ADA and Other Requirements
- Work is performed in an indoor office environment, with occasional local travel to external organizations and locations.
- Sedentary work involves sitting much of the time.
- Walking and standing are required occasionally. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Requires occasional reaching, standing, walking, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.
Benefits – General Full-Time Employees
- 12-13 paid holidays per year
- 13 standard work days of vacation per year
- 13 standard work days of sick leave per year, which accumulates indefinitely; sick leave may be used toward early retirement
- 2 weeks paid military leave per year
- Medical, dental, vision, and supplemental life insurance plans
- State and City retirement plans
- Short and long term disability plans
- Paid temporary disability leave for specified conditions
- City contribution of 13.6% into the N.C. State Retirement System
- Paid funeral leave
- Employee Assistance Program - personal and family counseling
- Paid life insurance equal to annual salary
- 48 hours for volunteer work each year*
- 4 hours parental leave each year
- Workman's Compensation Insurance
- 457 Deferred Compensation Plans
Benefits - Part-Time (1,000 hours or more per year)
- 401(k) retirement plan (5.0% of salary)
- State retirement plan
Benefits Part-Time (Average 30 hours per week over 12 month period)
- 401(k) retirement plan (5.0% of salary)
- State retirement plan effective first day of the month following date of hire
- Health insurance effective first day of the month following date of hire
- Dental and life insurance, after one year of service
- Pro-rated vacation, pro-rated sick, pro-rated floating holiday, parttime holiday pay (based on scheduled hours for that day) after one year of service
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Where did you first hear about this opportunity?
- City of Durham Website
- Walk in
- Job fair
- Employee referral
- Professional organization ***Please list the organization in "other" box below***
- Internet posting ***Please list the specific web site in the "other" box below***
- Craig's List
- Facebook
- LinkedIn
- GlassDoor
- governmentjobs.com
- Monster.com
- Indeed.com
- Employment Security Commission
- Magazine/Newspaper
- Other
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If you listed "other" above please give specific web site, organization, or publication.
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Please select your highest level of COMPLETED education.
- Less than a High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED, HiSET, TASC)
- High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED, HiSET, TASC)
- Associates Degree
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's Degree
- Doctoral Degree (PhD, Juris Doctorate)
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How many years of progressively responsible professional experience do you have related to affordable housing, community development, public administration, or a closely related field?
- No related experience
- Less than 9 years of related experience
- 9 years but less than 13 years of related experience
- 13 years but less than 17 years of related experience
- 17 or more years of related experience
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Please describe your progressively responsible professional experience related to affordable housing, community development, public administration, or a closely related field.
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Do you have experience serving in a senior leadership or executive capacity?
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Please describe your experience serving in a senior leadership or executive capacity.
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How many years of supervisory or management experience do you have?
- No related experience
- Less than 1 year of related experience
- 1 year but less than 2 years
- 2 years but less than 6 years
- 6 years but less than 10 years
- 10 or more years
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How many years of experience do you have developing strategies aligned with organizational goals?
- No related experience
- Less than 1 year of related experience
- 1 year but less than 3 years
- 3 years but less than 5 years
- 5 or more years
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Do you have experience managing federal funding sources, including HOME, Community Development Block Grant, and/or other affordable housing and community development sources?
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How many years of experience do you have managing budgets and personnel?
- No related experience
- Less than 1 year of related experience
- 1 year but less than 3 years of related experience
- 3 years but less than 5 years of related experience
- 5 or more years of related experience
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In your own words, describe what local government’s role is in addressing housing needs in the Durham community? Please limit responses to 3 sentences or less.
