Senior Director, Housing Solutions - Habitat for Humanity International : Job Details

Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is seeking a passionate, purpose-driven, systems-thinking leader with a deep commitment to affordable housing, community development, climate resilience, and environmental justice. This individual will fill the role of Senior Director, Housing Solutions within the organization's Housing and Community Strategy (HCS) team. The HCS team works with Habitat for Humanity local offices across the United States primarily through thought partnership, capacity building and strategic investments. The team's efforts are grounded in social justice and equity and focused on identifying, investing in, and scaling innovative approaches to affordable housing, economic mobility, and neighborhood transformation.

As a key leader on the HCS team and in the US Office, this position will hire and lead the newly forming Housing Solutions team. The role will oversee strategy, research, initiatives and tools that support HFHI and local Habitat affiliates to understand and leverage housing market conditions, financing (including public subsidies), regulatory environment, and entitlement process for affordable homeownership projects.

In addition, the Senior Director will ensure that Habitat affiliates are equipped with the tools and knowledge to implement climate resilience and environmental justice practices in housing development. This includes promoting sustainable construction techniques, resilient site design, and strategies that protect vulnerable communities from the impacts of extreme weather, rising sea levels, and environmental degradation. The role will also focus on addressing the intersection of housing affordability and environmental inequities, striving to create homes that are not only affordable but also healthy, sustainable, and safe. The Senior Director will manage a diverse team of subject matter experts specializing in affordable housing development, market analysis, construction, long-term affordability, housing preservation, climate resilience, and environmental justice policy. The individual in this position will act as a thought leader, representing HFHI to donors, housing sector partners, and Habitat affiliates, while also ensuring that climate and environmental justice considerations are embedded in every aspect of the team's work.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Minimum Requirements:

• Education: Master's degree in urban studies, architecture, urban design, real estate, urban planning, or related field with coursework equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Years of Related Experience: 10-15+ years of professional experience engaged in affordable housing design, development, construction and/or policy work. Mix of experience and education is relevant to years of experience.
• Experience with climate related/energy for used development approaches.
• Experience in public and private sector.
• Ability to navigate a complex affiliated network and HQ world.

Qualifications:

• Strong writing and communication skills.
• Experience and success in managing complex programs including technical assistance to end users.
• Existing career focus on affordable housing development and finance, systems transformation and/or community collaboration.

Preferred – in addition to minimum:

• Master's degree in one of above fields.
• Moderate or advanced knowledge of place-based community strategies, affordable housing, human-centered design, and/or developmental evaluation.
• Experience with principles of equitable development or social/economic/environmental justice frameworks.

Safeguarding: HFHI requires that all employees take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities, and all those with whom we work. Managers at all levels have responsibilities to support and develop systems that create and maintain an environment that prevents harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, safeguards the rights of beneficiaries and community members (especially children), and promotes the implementation of Habitat for Humanity's code of conduct.

The actual salary offered for this role will be based on a variety of factors, including location, internal equity and the candidate's qualifications and professional experience. HFHI offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits package that varies by country and typically includes vacation leave, sick leave, personal days, health insurance options, retirement plan contributions and life insurance. For work locations in the US, the hiring range for this position is $140,080 to $164,800.

Staff hired on a hybrid basis in the United States near an HFHI office location (Atlanta, Georgia / Washington, DC and Americus, GA), are required to report to the office on Tuesdays.

Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976, is a global, Christian-based nonprofit organization that grew out of an intentionally multi-racial community in rural Georgia. Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat brings together people of all faiths and people of no faith to build homes, communities and hope. Working alongside each other, we help families and individuals build and improve places to call home and achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Habitat seeks individuals who have a willingness to affirm these principles and values.

At Habitat for Humanity International, we embrace a history rooted in creating equity and take our mission seriously by courageously committing to a culture and workplace where all staff feel safe, welcome, visible, respected, supported and valued. As an equal opportunity employer, we realize that our success depends upon building an inclusive workforce of diverse perspectives and encourage people of varied races (which is inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, protective hairstyles and hair texture), ethnicities, national origins, tribes, religions, ages, gender identities and expressions, genders, sexual orientations, marital statuses, disabilities, veteran/reserve national guard statuses, socio-economic statuses, thinking and communication styles to work with us.

We also require that all staff take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities (especially children), and all those with whom we work. In line with the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, all staff must pass a thorough background screening and will be held accountable to upholding our policies around ethical behavior, including safeguarding and whistleblowing.