Community Development Director

Community Development Director

The Community Development Director provides executive leadership and strategic direction across the Tribe's Community Development portfolio; aligns land use, infrastructure, housing development, and ensures coordinated execution of Tribal Council and executive priorities. This position supervises assigned department directors and is responsible for integrating Public Works, Planning, Trust Services, housing development initiatives, and related capital projects.

Major Tasks and Responsibilities

• Provides executive leadership, direction, and oversight for the Tribe's Community Development portfolio, including Public Works, Planning, Trust Services, tribal-funded housing development and program coordination, and capital project coordination.
• Translates Tribal Council, CEO, and COO priorities into clear departmental work plans, project priorities, operational expectations, and implementation strategies.
• Advises the COO, CEO, relevant Committees, and Tribal leadership on community development, infrastructure, land use, trust/property, housing development, and capital project issues affecting Tribal operations, service delivery, and long-term development goals.
• Evaluates organizational performance and recommends improvements to strengthen coordination, accountability, and service delivery.
• Directly supervises and evaluates assigned department directors and managers, including the Director of Public Works and Director of Planning, and leaders of other assigned functions.
• Resolves cross-department conflicts, competing priorities, and operational bottlenecks among Public Works, Planning, Trust Services, housing development initiatives, and related functions.
• Establishes performance expectations, develops department leadership through coaching and succession planning, and recommends staffing and organizational improvements to strengthen operational performance.
• Identifies staffing, succession, organizational, and operational needs across the portfolio and makes recommendations to the COO regarding structure, staffing, and resource allocation.
• Oversee the integration of Public Works, Planning, and related community development functions to support coordinated delivery of Tribal priorities, infrastructure projects, land use decisions, and development initiatives.
• Ensures assigned leaders work collaboratively across departments and with executive leadership to address infrastructure needs, maintenance priorities, project sequencing, operational risks, and community concerns, and resolves cross-department conflicts and competing priorities affecting project delivery, land use, infrastructure, and community development work.
• Provides executive oversight of planning and land use activities, including long-range planning, Comprehensive Plan implementation, permit and development coordination, and related policy or code matters within the assigned portfolio.
• Ensures coordinated delivery of infrastructure, land use, permitting, Comprehensive Plan implementation, capital projects, and related Tribal priorities.
• Provides executive oversight of Trust Services and related property, land, and realty coordination functions assigned to the portfolio.
• Coordinates trust, fee-to-trust, land acquisition, title, and property matters with Planning, Public Works, Legal, and executive leadership to support Tribal development priorities.
• Helps ensure that land and property issues affecting Tribal development projects are elevated early, coordinated appropriately, and presented clearly to executive leadership for decision-making.
• Coordinates shared housing-related projects with Housing Authority leadership and internal partners to address land, infrastructure, funding, and implementation issues.
• Supports planning, coordination, and execution of Tribal housing development priorities that are funded or managed outside Housing Authority lending and HUD/NAHASDA operations.
• Coordinates with Housing Authority leadership, Finance, Legal, Planning, Public Works, and Construction on shared housing-related projects, land needs, infrastructure needs, and implementation challenges.
• Leads planning, coordination, and executive oversight of capital and community development projects across the assigned portfolio, including projects involving Public Works, Planning, Trust Services, tribal-funded housing development, infrastructure, and related departmental priorities.
• Establishes project governance, prioritization, reporting, issue escalation, and executive oversight to ensure successful delivery of capital projects.
• Oversee departmental budgets, expenditure planning, and resource needs for assigned departments and functions within the community development portfolio.
• Ensures sound fiscal stewardship through oversight of budgets, contracts, procurement, compliance, and administrative controls for the Community Development portfolio.
• Prepares or oversees preparation of reports, analyses, presentations, recommendations, and briefing materials for the…