Analyst, Housing Resources

About the Role

The Analyst, Housing Resources, will be a core member of our technical assistance team, leading project engagements with clients, including cities, developers, public agencies, and nonprofits. Reporting to the Managing Director for Technical Assistance, this position is responsible for gathering and analyzing data, providing key findings and identifying actionable implications; creating or restructuring policy and programmatic approaches; and producing a variety of written deliverables for clients and in preparation for prospective client conversations. The Analyst will also serve as a client-facing lead on technical assistance project components, managing day-to-day project execution and timelines. Across all The Kelsey's work, the Analyst will support cross-team engagements, including infusing learnings from Technical Assistance projects into policy and housing development, supporting metrics and outcome tracking, and providing analysis to drive impact and efficacy across programs. The Analyst will perform in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis, produce first-draft insights and deliverables, and help keep project teams running smoothly through close coordination with project managers, team members, and partners.

Responsibilities

Deliver Technical Assistance (70%)

• Convert technical assistance proposals into project plans
• Research and synthesize housing policy, programs, and financing tools (e.g., LIHTC, Section 811, QAPs), and disability-forward best practices
• Analyze the feasibility of implications of policy and program choices for clients, translating technical financing concepts into plain-language guidance
• Support stakeholder engagement, including stakeholder mapping and interviewing, and designing and facilitating engagement events
• Produce project memos, presentations, client meeting agendas, reports, and other technical assistance work products and deliverables
• Track technical assistance project milestones, timelines, and deliverables
• Conduct preliminary site evaluations for development projects, as needed, to inform technical assistance recommendations and support potential real estate development projects

Manage Technical Assistance Administration (15%)

• Prepare background research, briefing materials, and post-meeting materials to support client intake and contribute to business development
• Support intake and onboarding processes for new technical assistance clients
• Track contracts, scopes of work, and client billing coordination
• Support documentation of impact metrics and reporting for all completed technical assistance engagements

Support Cross-Team Impact (15%)

• Integrate outcomes, learnings, and best practices from technical assistance engagements across The Kelsey's advocacy, real estate, and resident services teams
• Support the organization's impact dashboard with data inputs and analysis
• Provide inputs that support organizational learning and that drive annual and strategic goals
• Serve as the go-to specialist for colleagues around data and quantitative analysis, supporting cross-team projects and program-specific analyses

First 3 Months

• Onboard into The Kelsey's technical assistance practice, gaining fluency in the organization's disability-forward frameworks, current TA engagements, and internal tools and processes
• Build working relationships with the technical assistance team and cross-functional colleagues in advocacy, real estate, and resident services
• Support active engagements through research, data gathering, and first-draft materials; shadow client-facing work; and begin taking ownership of discrete project components under the team's guidance

First 6 Months

• Operate with greater independence, serving as a client-facing lead and managing day-to-day execution and timelines with minimal oversight
• Produce well-prepared, near-final research, analysis, and deliverables that clients and colleagues rely on
• Develop working familiarity and some command of the policy and financing tools central to the role (LIHTC, Section 811, QAPs)
• Speak clearly to how your work connects to The Kelsey's broader goals, including how engagement-level findings feed into cross-team learning, organizational impact tracking, and progress toward more inclusive, accessible housing nationally

Qualifications

As an Analyst, you demonstrate capacity for proactive project team participation, leadership, critical thinking, creativity, and other capabilities aligned with the role and responsibilities described above, including the following approach to your work:

• Highly organized and execution-oriented, taking pride in producing complete, high-quality work and ensuring strong follow-through on commitments
• Resourceful when working with incomplete or messy information, able to structure ambiguous questions, determine what data is needed, and use spreadsheets and other analytical tools to produce practical analysis
• Quantitatively confident and data-oriented, energized by working with numbers and comfortable analyzing datasets, metrics, and financial or policy information to identify patterns, test assumptions, and draw well-supported conclusions
• Inquisitive and analytically rigorous, skilled at conducting and synthesizing quantitative and qualitative research on housing systems, public policy, and financing tools (e.g., LIHTC, Section 811, and QAPs), and translating findings into clear, practical recommendations and accessible, actionable deliverables for varied audiences
• Proceed with clarity and structure, effectively managing timelines, tracking milestones, and keeping multiple workstreams moving simultaneously
• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication, translating complex housing policy, financing, and technical concepts into clear, accessible materials for varied audiences
• Collaborative, working effectively across project teams to support shared goals while independently owning your scope of work and responsibilities
• Willingness to learn new skills, processes, and knowledge

Ideal Skills and Experience

• 2 to 5 years of experience in state or local public policy, affordable housing, urban planning or development, public administration, or a similar field
• Comfortable with Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, including lookups, logic functions, and filter formulas; data cleaning, pivot tables, charting, and basic analysis
• Experience collecting, cleaning, analyzing, and quality-checking public or administrative datasets; familiarity with common housing and demographic data sources, such as Census/ACS, HUD CHAS, and local housing data, is a plus
• Experience with data visualization or dashboard tools, GIS software, and/or project management platforms is a plus
• Project management training or certification is a plus

Pay

The salary range for this position is $72,000 to $97,000, depending on qualifications and experience.

Benefits

• Robust health coverage
• Retirement match
• Vacation
• Family leave

Schedule

• Remote-first organization; this role is remote as well
• Occasional regional or national travel, with 6-10 trips a year