Community Development and Grants Specialist

Community Development and Grants Specialist

Location:

310 Court Street, Clearwater, FL 33756

Schedule:

This position would have a flexible work schedule that includes remote work.

The position involves professional community development work implementing housing and community development programs and activities. The position will work independently in administering aspects of grant administration, grant compliance, loan portfolio management, and/or community development initiatives. Grants include US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs such as CDBG, HOME, ESG and the Florida State Housing Initiatives Partnership (SHIP) program.

Responsibilities of the position may include ensuring grant compliance with federal and state regulations, administering community development programs, assisting in development of plans and reports, performing loan portfolio management functions, conducting research, and providing technical assistance to nonprofits related to funding applications and awards. Duties include loan portfolio management; assisting with preparation of annual plans and reports; subrecipient monitoring; and community relations.

Employees in this class are expected to handle all phases of assigned responsibilities to promote community development, grant program compliance, expand community resources, and project development; sometimes training, leading and monitoring volunteers and others.

• Assists in preparing written documents such as subrecipient contracts, annual plans, and performance reporting to HUD with clearly organized thoughts, proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar.
• Participates in the review of community development program applications; coordinates with non-profit agencies, funders and others to ensure compliance with federal and state grant regulations.
• Evaluates loan applications, calculates annual household income and makes loan underwriting decisions for loan modifications and workouts.
• Assists with preparing, executing, and monitoring subrecipient contracts.
• Sets up projects and enters related data in US Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS).
• Loan portfolio management including generating portfolio monitoring reports and ensures compliance of the monthly Action Due Report, the County Interest report and continued use grant compliance requirements; performing initial setup for loans being serviced and processes satisfactions and releases of liens; negotiating portfolio management workout strategies with borrowers, prepares necessary security instruments and submits a to superiors; establishes and maintains tracking systems for all portfolio-related documents and oversees the storage of physical and electronic documents in a secure manner;
  
  monitors expiring insurance policies and requests renewal certificates; answering inquiries concerning loan portfolio matters; confers and coordinates with County Attorney’s Office, title companies, other various county departments and borrowers regarding portfolio matters.
• Provides technical assistance to subrecipient entities and applicants for funding.
• Assists in preparing required periodic reports related to CDBG/HOME/ESG programs.
• Examines and reviews grant applications, plans, reports and reporting requirements for compliance issues; coordinates with non-profit agencies, funders and others to ensure compliance with federal and state grant regulations.
• Prepares preliminary drafts and edits materials related to area of assignment.
• May direct technical or support personnel on planning or functional projects.
• Prepares desk procedures, including manuals, for effective grants management and cross training purposes.
• Ensures maintenance of proper grant audit trails and manages and maintains department record keeping and project management files, relevant to materials appropriate to assigned activity or section.

• 6 years of paraprofessional and professional experience working with federal grants, preferably CDBG, HOME and ESG, in affordable housing, community development programs, grant administration, real estate finance, mortgage lending, or community development work as described.
• Associates Degree with major course work in social services, business, finance, housing administration, public administration, urban planning, government, law, engineering, design, economics geography, statistics or a related field plus 4 years of paraprofessional and professional experience in affordable housing, grant administration, real estate finance, mortgage lending, or community development work as described.
• Bachelor’s degree with major course work in social services, business, finance, housing administration, public administration, urban planning, government, law, engineering, design, economics geography, statistics or a related field plus two (2) years of paraprofessional and professional experience in affordable housing, grant administration, real estate finance,…