[Hiring] Community Development Consultant @ICF

Role Description

Your passion is supporting communities with implementing best practice strategies to provide expert consulting skills and programmatic expertise to serve the needs of low- and moderate-income families. At ICF, you will work alongside a team of experts supporting the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by delivering technical assistance on Section 3 requirements. This role may also support broader community and economic development priorities, including:

• Labor standards compliance
• Workforce development initiatives such as job training and employment placement
• Small business and microenterprise development
• Other HUD-aligned economic and workforce development activities

This position is ON-CALL (part-time with variable hours) and work remote. Assignments are made on a demand-response basis so hours are completely variable.

Apply today to become part of our great team of experts!

What you’ll be doing:

• Work with a diverse set of stakeholders including public housing authorities, HUD Community Planning and Development (CPD) grantees who work with the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME, etc., programs.
• Focus work is in creating economic opportunity through the Section 3 requirements that overlay HUD grantees.
• Develop/deliver training sessions, conference presentations, workshops, and webinars.
• Facilitate technical assistance engagements, either in-person or virtually through web-based software.
• Focus on best practice and innovative strategies related to HUD programs.
• Contribute to the design of tools, drafting of reports, and development of policy guidance.
• Experience, knowledge and/or lived experience in utilizing a racial equity lens throughout work products, webinar deliveries, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Public Administration, Planning, Public Policy, Government or a related discipline or minimum 10 years of professional experience in a similar field.
• Minimum of 10 years knowledge in HUD programs, specifically administering programs where Section 3 is an economic opportunity program.
• A general understanding of HUD reporting systems (e.g., IDIS, DRGR, and other PHA reporting systems) for Section 3 reporting.
• Demonstrated success developing and delivering trainings, workshops and webinars; program assessments and evaluation; facilitation, and public speaking to a variety of audiences.
• This is a home-based position and up to 25% travel may be required.

Requirements

• Previous work with Department of Labor, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Youth Build, workforce investment boards, and/or job training programs, is a plus.
• Broad knowledge in Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity laws and requirements.

Benefits

• A commitment to affordable housing and serving all of those who are under-served.
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities to analyze situations, identify existing or potential problems, and recommend solutions.
• Ability to multi-task with various projects and responsibilities.
• Proficiency in MS Office Applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel).