Housing Division Coordinator (Limited Duration)

Initial posting: 08/19/2026 • Application deadline: 09/02/2026 • Limited-duration appointment currently funded through June 30, 2027.

About the role

Join the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development’s (DLCD) Housing Division as the Housing Division Coordinator. This limited-duration position will play a pivotal role in supporting, establishing, and maintaining procedures and controls for Housing Division initiatives that advance housing production, affordability, and choice in partnership with local governments, the State, and other partners. A major focus will be creating tools and structures that continue supporting the division long after the position concludes. You’ll also collaborate directly with the Housing Division Manager to support the administration of technical assistance and grant programs that help local governments across Oregon meet their housing needs. You will coordinate internal and external communications for the division and may support the processing of public records requests to promote transparency, public trust, and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Participate in agency-wide efforts to develop and implement equity.
• Partner with the Division’s Administrative Specialist to keep daily operations running smoothly through well-designed systems, processes, and workflows.
• Manage and update information in the Housing Division’s grants management software to ensure projects are progressing on schedule, in coordination with the Housing Division Manager.
• Connect policy development, programmatic workloads, and team structure to anticipate and identify solutions to common operational hurdles.
• Establish and maintain procedures and controls for Housing Division’s technical assistance to local governments.
• Draft routine letters and contracts, maintain files and databases ensuring they are uniform, comprehensive, and recorded/archived in accordance with program protocol.
• Monitor program activities for compliance with State laws, provider eligibility, client needs, subcontractor, vendor, or client abuse or fraud.

Requirements

• Three years of secretarial or administrative support experience that includes coordinating office procedures, preparing narrative and statistical reports, and administrative data collection and analysis; or
• An associate degree in general office occupations and two years of secretarial or administrative support experience that includes coordinating office procedures, preparing narrative and statistical reports, and administrative data collection and analysis; or
• An equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills

• Ability to learn and work within specific agency programs or operations, policies, and procedures affecting assigned work.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative and harmonious working relationships with others.
• Ability to analyze, evaluate, and solve procedural problems.
• Ability to collect, analyze, interpret, and report data in both a narrative and statistical format.
• Ability to assist management in the development of short- and long-range goals and objectives.
• Lived or professional experience serving individuals from historically and currently underserved and under-resourced communities.
• Fluency in languages in addition to English (encouraged).

Benefits

• Regular status and benefits eligibility.
• Annual step increases up to the top of the classification salary range.
• PERS-qualifying members receive a 6.95% base salary increase and pay the 6% employee contribution to PERS; non-PERS members receive the 6.95% increase and begin the 6% contribution upon participating in PERS.

Pay

$4,308 – $5,984 per month.