Enterprise is a national nonprofit that exists to make a good home possible for the millions of families without one. We support community development organizations on the ground, aggregate and invest capital for impact, advance housing policy at every level of government, and build and manage communities ourselves. Since 1982, we have invested $72 billion and created 1 million homes across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands - all to make home and community places of pride, power and belonging.
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Working at Enterprise
At Enterprise, you'll be part of a diverse, committed team making a difference every day. You will collaborate with some of the smartest minds and biggest hearts in our field. You'll be empowered to drive systems change and take bold steps to advance racial equity. And you will find a career home where you're valued and supported in your growth journey.
Enterprise offers career opportunities in our offices across the country with anexceptional benefits package.
Job Description Summary
This is a tremendous opportunity for a New York leader to serve as leader in the affordable housing and community development field. In New York, Enterprise works with affordable housing developers, community leaders, public agencies and policy makers across the five boroughs and statewide to bring together the people and resources to increase the affordable housing supply, preserve existing affordable housing, and community assets to create vibrant, equitable, inclusive neighborhoods. We deploy capital, shape policy and lead solution-based programmatic interventions - through training, direct technical assistance, convenings, resource guides and targeted grants. Since 1987, we have invested more than $5.2 billion in the region, creating and preserving nearly 84,000 affordable homes, delivering impactful technical assistance and capacity building to both our public partners and developers, and working with key stakeholders to achieve the systems change that is needed to address the severe housing crisis.Job Description
Job Responsibilities:
The VP and New York Market Leader leads the delivery of Enterprise's program solutions, innovations, capital and policy efforts to bring sustainable and lasting impact in the region. This leadership role delivers in-depth solutions to achieve large-scale results, bringing the full resources of Enterprise to bear on local issues. The Market Leader grounds our work through listening to our partners, strategic assessments of the needs of local and state government partners, non-profit and for-profit developers and the public, corporate, and banking sectors and provides solutions to support local and state-wide strategies to address affordable housing and community development needs in low-income communities To be successful the leader must be a dynamic, proactive and results-oriented manager with success in translating strategy into results for partners and driving delivery through a matrix organization. The leader must also be a seasoned problem solver with capacity to work through conflict and reach compromise solutions that serve the economic, mission and risk profile for Enterprise.
A successful candidate must have a deep commitment to our mission and the communities we serve. The position requires knowledge of the most pressing housing issues facing low-income and vulnerable communities in New York and the program innovations and policies that can help advance program and policy solutions such as preservation, supportive housing, fair housing, economic mobility, resilience, and sustainable and equitable development.
Skills needed include demonstrated leadership experience, commitme