Associate Director for Programs and Operations, Center for Housing Research and Innovative Solutions

About the role

The Associate Director for Programs and Operations serves as CHRIS's operational backbone, providing senior-level leadership across financial management, administration, communications and events, and relationship‑building work that connects CHRIS to its faculty, advisory bodies, students, and educational programs. Reporting directly to the Executive Director, this role is essential to CHRIS’s ability to function as an effective, well‑run organization during a period of rapid growth — building the internal systems and infrastructure that allow the Center’s research and policy work to move forward, while sustaining relationships with advisory bodies, partner schools, and students. The position spans roughly 50% financial/administrative/operational responsibilities, 25% communications and events, and 25% relationship and program management, including support for CHRIS’s advisory bodies, its role in the DU Executive Certificate in Affordable Housing, and student/graduate assistant engagement. The Associate Director will initially work closely with interim support partners (Colorado Lab, RMLUI, Burns School)