[Hiring] CDBG-DR Housing Subject Matter Expert @Michael Baker International

Role Description

Tidal Basin, a Michael Baker company, is seeking a CDBG-DR Housing Subject Matter Expert who serves as a senior technical authority for the design, implementation, oversight, and improvement of owner-occupied housing rehabilitation, reconstruction, replacement, reimbursement, elevation, mitigation, and related disaster recovery programs. The position supports federal, state, territorial, tribal, and local government clients throughout grant startup, production, monitoring, corrective action, and closeout.

The successful candidate will:

• Translate HUD and grantee requirements into operationally workable, equitable, controlled, and audit-defensible housing programs.
• Resolve complex or high-risk matters.
• Establish standards.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary housing, policy, environmental, construction, finance, legal, technology, and quality resources.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability
• Professional and personal development
• Generous paid time off
• Commuter and wellness benefits

Company Description

At Tidal Basin, we exist to help communities, agencies, and critical infrastructure partners prepare for, respond to, recover from, and strengthen resilience to disasters and disruptions. Today, we deliver that promise as one united team, combining Tidal Basin Group, MLU Services, and Michael Baker International to bring the full resilience lifecycle under one roof.

That means clients can move from strategy to execution faster: aligning planning, funding, and compliance with engineering and design, program delivery, contingency operations and logistics, and technology enabled tools that improve visibility and decision-making. When urgency is high, we mobilize quickly. When complexity is high, we integrate disciplines and stay accountable through closeout so recovery holds up to scrutiny and communities rebuild stronger.