PUBLIC FUNDING PROJECT MANAGER

Description

The Public Funding Project Manager is an essential part of the Public Funding Team within Homeowner Services that creates permanently affordable home ownership opportunities in King and Kittitas Counties. The Public Funding Project Manager will be responsible for securing and managing the funding for Habitat’s real estate development projects in alignment with our core values to lead with service, respect all people, build community, and deliver results. The funding sources will include City, State and Federal funders, and Banks. The Public Funding Project Manager will project manage the full funding lifecycle, from funding application through contracting, draw submittal, and compliance management through completion. They will manage regular reporting and assist with funding applications as needed. The Public Funding Project Manager will report to the Sr. Public Funding Manager. This position is in-person at the Renton Habitat offices.

Essential Functions

• Support application submissions for affordable housing development and repairs projects, including working the team to gather all information necessary, writing the narrative, gathering necessary attachments, and submitting applications.
• Manage a funding calendar that contains timeline and deliverables for completion of public funding applications.
• Identify new funding sources for affordable housing development projects.
• Project manage grant reporting and compliance, working with other in-house departments to ensure timely complete submission of periodic and annual reports.
• Partner with affiliate General Counsel to ensure timely grant contracting.
• Serve as main point-of-contact to assigned funders, ensuring project compliance through all phases of the project and contract completion.
• Partner with Finance team to ensure grant payment requests are complete, submitted, and funded on schedule.
• Support with project financial model updates as needed.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Minimum Education, Experience and Skills

• Bachelors Degree in related field preferred
• 3 or more years’ experience in grant management, or real estate finance.
• Experience writing grant or funding applications for large projects with a track record of success.

Required Skills

• Highly organized, ability to multi-task and prioritize workload.

• Self-motivated professional with a problem-solving mindset.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to proactively communicate with multiple colleagues and stakeholders.
• Strong ability to write and speak clearly and effectively, to listen actively, to engage and persuade.
• Excellent attention to detail and pride in creating polished final product.
• Effective working in a collaborative team environment.

Required Knowledge:

• Knowledge of grant writing.
• Knowledge of funding and financing for affordable housing and real estate development preferred.
• Proficiency in Excel.
• Proficiency in creation of presentations in PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with development project proformas preferred.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Suite.
• Familiarity with NetSuite preferred.

Language Skills:  Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business documents. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from a group of managers, customers, and the general public.

Math Skills: Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning Ability:  Define problems, collect, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret a wide variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical decisions. Provides solutions to individual and company problems. Ability to organize and prioritize tasks.

Computer Skills: Proficiency with computer usage, especially Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations

Must be at least 18 and have a valid driver’s license with a good driving record.

Physical Demands and Work Environment[

The physical demands and work environment described below represent the activities and surroundings of the position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.                

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle or feel. The employee is required to talk and must be able to read. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.

• Extensive keyboarding is required. Sit/work at a computer/laptop for extended periods of time.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate consisting of usual business office sounds including but not limited to computers, printers, telephones, and light foot traffic.

Benefits

Benefits package to include generous vacation/sick leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, short/long term disability, life insurance, and retirement account with employer matching and professional development program.

Habitat for Humanity of Seattle-King & Kittitas Counties is firmly committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity (EEO) and will provide such opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to sex, race, age, color, religion, mental or physical disability, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and/or military status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Statement of Commitment on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King & Kittitas Counties, we build hope for all by tearing down barriers to affordable housing.  Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is unwavering.

We have a deep love of humanity and embrace all our differences including race, religion, background or identity.

We act to remove systemic barriers to sustainable, affordable homeownership through advocacy and equity by providing education on housing issues and inequities for public policy makers and eliminating systemic inequities in our policies and practices. We empower our homeowners through education.

We bring people together, leveraging our differences to achieve our mission in our workplaces, building sites, stores, and in our homes.

We build communities where everyone feels a sense of belonging.  Our support does not stop when a homeowner receives their keys.

We provide hope by eliminating disparities in home ownership.

Salary : $69,357 - $95,366