Community Development Consultant - ON CALL PART TIME (REMOTE ROLE)

About the role

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 and training on Section 3 and Federal Labor requirements.

Responsibilities

• 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 Investment Partnerships Act, etc., programs.
• Focus of the work is in educating and distilling Federal rule requirements to grantees/subrecipients on Section 3 and labor requirements, including Davis-Bacon, that best supports building capacity to deliver high quality, compliant HUD programs.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Public Administration, Planning, Public Policy, Government or a related discipline or minimum 10 years of professional experience in similar field.
• Minimum of 10 years knowledge in HUD programs, specifically understanding fully Section 3 and Davis-Bacon requirements.
• Demonstrated success developing and delivering trainings, workshops and webinars; program assessments and evaluation; facilitation, and public speaking to a variety of audiences.

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

• Professional Skills:
• 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).

Pay

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: $89,649.00 - $152,404.00 Nationwide Remote Office (US99)