Affordability Breakthrough - Program Manager, National Programs

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Enterprise Community Partners is seeking a Program Manager to join our National Programs team. This role will help drive innovative solutions to the nation’s housing challenges by supporting programs that incubate, accelerate, and scale housing innovation, including the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge.

The Program Manager will contribute to the design, development and delivery of all aspects of complex, multi-faceted national initiatives.

The ideal candidate will be a skilled program developer and leader, with experience supporting the design and implementation of innovative, national-scale programs that advance production of and access to affordable homes across the United States. This role will provide critical support to the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge, a national grant competition designed to identify, accelerate, and scale implementation‑ready breakthrough ideas that promise new ways to create housing affordability across three focus areas:
Design & Construction, Finance, and Service Delivery & Programs. As the demand for affordable housing nationwide continues to exceed the supply, the Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge aims to catalyze breakthrough ideas that help close the affordability gap, and foster a more inclusive, accessible housing system.

• Provide support to planning and implementation of competitive grantee selection processes, which include work evaluating potential grantees through written materials and in-person engagements:
• Responsibilities include supporting the development of selection process materials, evaluation criteria for decision making, managing a process for input from funders, internal and external experts in selection competition winners, as well as communications, coordination and scheduling.
• Provide support to grantmaking and grants management activities, including award notifications, activity reporting, disbursements, and grant closeouts.
• Support delivery of programming that is adaptive and responsive to grantee needs, and is designed to foster shared learning for grantees, Enterprise staff, and others, including in-person and virtual convenings as well as industry convenings. Act as a proactive point of contact and facilitate cross‑functional support across other Enterprise markets and divisions, including marketing, resource development, impact and evaluation, as well as industry leaders.
• Support thought leadership activities as needed, including:
• gathering innovation‑specific data on an ongoing basis
• delivering regular summary reports and materials to funders, Enterprise leadership, and other key…