Program Manager, Partner Sustainability & Growth

About the role

This position will support two major initiatives at Enterprise: the Equitable Path Forward and Partner Sustainability initiatives, which are co-managed through the Partner Sustainability & Growth team in close coordination with Enterprise’s Capital Division.

Equitable Path Forward is a cross-divisional $3.5 billion nationwide initiative to help economically and socially disadvantaged developers gain access to capital and resources. Launched in 2020, Equitable Path Forward (EPF) pursues three goals:

• Filling the capital gap created by a lack of access to financing
• Strengthening providers through advisory services and other non-financial support
• Creating new career pathways to broaden leadership in real estate

Working with our EPF partners, we have met each of these goals, exceeding our expectations and ensuring lasting change in communities across the country. To date, we have partnered with over 100 developers, deployed over $1.2 billion of Enterprise capital, and leveraged over $6 billion (exceeding our $3.5 billion goal) of additional resources. This work has resulted in the production or preservation of over 11,000 homes by EPF partners.

Partner Sustainability is a multi-year initiative developed in response to the affordable housing sector facing soaring development and operational costs at a time of unprecedented demand. Economic instability is creating pressure on developers, owners, and operators, threatening organizational stability and the national housing supply. The Partner Sustainability & Growth Program delivers capacity building for the field, tailored technical assistance and staffing support, grants, cutting-edge policy research, and new tools to strengthen partners and affordable housing systems, and prevent future failures.

The position will report to the Director, Programs - Partner Sustainability & Growth.

Responsibilities

• Supports Buildout and Delivery of Industry-Wide Technical Assistance Programming and Work with Individual Affordable Housing (AH) Owners and Operators
  • Works with partner developers to assist in assessing capacity building, advisory services, capital, and other needs.
  • Incorporating partner developer feedback, helps develop and implement technical assistance and capacity-building tools for the affordable housing field such as webinars, toolkits, and best practice guides. These materials will focus on organizational and portfolio stability, asset management, property management, development efficiency and funding strategies, organizational development and portfolio growth, insurance, organizational staffing and management, and other topics of interest for affordable housing owners and operators.
  • Curates web content, webinars, and other program public offerings and related communications.
  • Supports the scoping of, memorializes, and tracks technical assistance and advisory services engagements with developer partners and associated consulting contracts.
  • Supports relationships with external consultants and training partners.
  • Ensures consulting contract deliverables are met and manages consultant budgets.
  • Manages grant allocation, scoping, disbursement, and impact reporting processes.
  • Coordinates across internal and market-based teams to assess partner capacity building, advisory services, capital, and other needs and helps to scope and implement engagements.
  • Supports design and facilitation of virtual and in-person affordable housing owner and operator cohorts and peer exchanges.
  • Executes event planning including speaker outreach, agendas, and logistics for associated in-person and/or virtual convenings.
• Connects EPF and PS Work to Broader Policy Advocacy and Ecosystem Efforts
  • Supports and facilitates ongoing cross-organizational collaboration to advance field-building.
  • Deepens trust, transparency, and alignment across these programs’ networks of partners through proactive engagement and problem-solving.
  • Surfaces policy-relevant learnings that reflect conditions that call for systems change and/or that present opportunities for resource development.
  • Supports identification of replication opportunities between PS and EPF and other work in local Enterprise markets or in the sector at large that strengthens the infrastructure of the affordable housing owner and operator ecosystem.
  • Participates in and sometimes co-leads relationship stewarding with philanthropic investors, TA providers, municipal partners, other housing intermediaries, and ecosystem actors.
• Participation in Program Strategy and High-Level Work Planning
  • Supports program leadership in and contributes to the refinement and execution of strategic plans for the PS and EPF programs.
  • Supports alignment between the PS and EPF programs and other Enterprise market, regional, or national initiatives where synergy exists.
• Program Administration and Funder Management
  • Coordinates with internal Enterprise departments (Operations, Communications, National Programs, Development) to align implementation with Enterprise processes and reporting.
  • Creates and updates presentations and proposals for internal and external audiences.
  • Manages the collection and reporting of KPIs and impact data from program participants and helps guide analyses and dissemination where appropriate.
  • Oversees program data management.
  • Participates in the preparation of fundraising proposals.
  • Models a collaborative management style that reflects Enterprise values.
• Additional responsibilities as they arise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five years of experience in relevant fields of community development and affordable housing, public policy, urban planning, government, banking and finance, nonprofit, or real estate development.
• Some experience in the affordable housing funding, development, operating, or managing fields preferred.
• Graduate degree may be substituted for up to 2 years of experience.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $76,000 – $98,000. The salary range represents the low and high end of what may be paid for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range, and compensation decisions may be influenced by a variety of factors, including skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Benefits

This range is just one component of our total rewards package, which also includes annual performance bonuses and generous paid leave programs. Our benefits include:

• Dental, health, and vision care plans
• Family-building benefits such as adoption and surrogacy support
• Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance
• Health advocacy, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and mental health benefits
• Financial education and wellness programs
• Auto-enrollment in the company’s 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions
• Learning and development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement for job-related courses and certifications