Senior Housing Compliance Manager

We partner with low-income and working people to build economic and racial equity. We do this by confronting economic abuse and investing in community wealth. We use an ever-evolving set of legal, economic and advocacy tools to challenge and dismantle unjust systems, building quickly towards a world where all people have what they need to live and thrive.

The Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) is a Colorado-based nonprofit. Launched in 2020 as the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, our organization was formed to keep our neighbors housed during the pandemic. Working with clients, we built a deeply integrative approach to eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness prevention that centers the legal and financial needs of housing-insecure families and uses a variety of tools to keep them housed.

Our team now serves more than 1,000 people per month, bringing together housing lawyers, economists, data analysts, policy-experts, organizers, and technologists to serve our clients.

We have served more than 68,000 low-income Coloradans across 54 counties, distributing more than $280 million in emergency assistance. We have also contributed to the passage of major legislation to prevent eviction, stop economic abuse, and make credit and life-saving medication cheaper. CEDP's model has been cited as a best practice by the White House and HUD in , think tanks like the Urban Institute, and in the media.

Building on our work to stop evictions, CEDP has further expanded its integrated services model to include disaster response, predatory towing, debt collection, benefit access & navigation, long-term rental assistance, and homelessness response. Similar to CEDP's work on rental housing, these efforts offer a continuum of care that includes navigation and advisory services, targeted payments, legal support, and the ability to participate in advocacy.

The Senior Housing Compliance Manager provides technical, compliance, and operational oversight for housing subsidy programs administered by CEDP under contract with the Colorado Division of Housing (DOH). The position ensures CEDP fulfills its delegated responsibilities in accordance with applicable HUD requirements, DOH policies and procedures, contractual requirements, and CEDP standards. The Senior Housing Compliance Manager supervises Housing Coordinators, provides technical guidance, conducts quality assurance and compliance monitoring, develops staff training and procedures, and serves as a primary internal resource for complex housing subsidy matters.

• Supervises a team of Housing Coordinators responsible for researching, monitoring, and properly interpreting HUD rules and regulations for various housing programs. These programs may include Housing Choice Voucher, State Housing Voucher, Emergency Housing Voucher and others.
• Ensure program compliance with federal, state, and local housing regulations, including Fair Housing, HUD, and CEDP policies.
• Manages all aspects of housing subsidy programs at CEDP, ensuring that housing resources are used to their full capacity.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on HUD regulations and program policies. Conduct file and program audits for accuracy, quality, and compliance; identify noncompliance and implement corrective action plans.
• Develops/maintains training and manuals, guru cards and other materials for Housing Coordinators. Ensures housing programs do not discriminate against any federal/state/local- protected group, operate utilizing harm reduction, anti-oppressive, trauma informed methodologies and other best practice models.
• Supports team to conduct housing…