[Hiring] Director of Lending @Housing Partnership Network

Role Description

The Director of Lending is responsible for leading and managing the organization’s lending activities to achieve strategic, impact, and financial goals. This role oversees the loan origination and underwriting team, ensuring strong risk management while advancing HPN’s lending initiatives, including its parent organization, Housing Partnership. The Director plays a critical leadership role in product development, staff supervision, capital deployment, and external partnerships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and ten or more years of CDFI lending experience. An advanced degree in a related field is a plus.
• Proven experience (5+ years) managing and leading a lending team to achieve strategic and financial goals.
• Qualified candidates will have backgrounds in:
  • Affordable housing and/or community development finance
  • Market leadership in banking
  • A substantive role on a finance team, understanding capital transactions, particularly in affordable housing finance
  • A transferrable skillset in positions working within the communities served by HPN
• Knowledge of and experience in the LIHTC syndication field.
• Strong familiarity with federal, state, and local government capital funding sources and operating needs of affordable housing, with knowledge of the following sectors preferred:
  • Supportive housing
  • Housing preservation
  • Senior housing
  • Naturally occurring affordable housing
• Deep knowledge of underwriting, loan structuring, and credit risk evaluation.
• Strong leadership, communication, and strategic thinking skills.

Requirements

• Manage the originations team offering a suite of financial products across multiple funding sources.
• Oversee the loan origination process, from developing a robust pipeline through loan closing.
• Manage the lending pipeline in Salesforce and ensure accurate and timely reporting.
• Supervise, mentor, train, and develop Loan Officers and other staff.
• Train Loan Officers in technical underwriting proficiencies.
• Oversee the development, design, and implementation of loan products.
• Manage and update HPN/HPF’s lending policies.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, investor requirements, and regulatory guidelines.

Benefits

• 15 vacation days
• 12 sick days
• 12 paid holidays
• Paid personal day
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending account
• Dependent care flexible spending account
• Retirement and savings plan/401(k) match
• Group life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Parental leave
• Sabbatical leave
• Professional development and much more!

Company Description

Housing Partnership Network (HPN) is an award-winning membership network of 100 of the nation’s leading affordable housing and community development nonprofits. Our mission is to leverage the individual strengths and mobilize the collective power of our member organizations.

Since our founding in 1992, HPN has collectively served over 12.8 million people; developed, rehabilitated, or preserved about 470,000 affordable homes; and launched 14 successful social enterprises.

HPN represents a new breed of entrepreneurial nonprofit that combines a mission focus with business acumen to achieve ambitious social outcomes.