Director, and Resilience Programs

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Regular Employee Washington, DC, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $90,000.00 To $ Annually

The Urban Land Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research and education organization supported by its members. Founded in 1936, the Institute has more than 48,000 members worldwide representing the full spectrum of land use and real estate development disciplines across private enterprise and public service. ULI's mission is to shape the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide.

The ULI Impact Lab is the philanthropically funded, systems-change arm of ULI. The Lab transforms the built environment to create places that are affordable, healthy, sustainable, and resilient by activating ULI's member expertise, trusted nonpartisan voice, partnerships, and the Lab's own insights to shape market outcomes. This role sits in the Lab's Market Transformation team and reports to the Vice President, Market Transformation.

America needs more housing, and the housing it builds needs to survive a changing climate. This role puts you at the center of both problems, running two of the Impact Lab's flagship funded programs, together representing more than $2 million of grant-funded work:

• The Northeast Offsite Construction Collaborative works with a consortium of Northeast states and our partner, the Center for Public Enterprise, to standardize the processes and costs of offsite construction and open the way to more housing production.
• Resilience+ is a two-year, three-market initiative to test and refine new protocols for building climate resilience, sustainability, and insurability into the production and preservation of affordable multifamily housing.

You will be the day-to-day point of contact for two high-profile institutional funders. That relationship is collaborative, not just reporting: you will help select the markets we work in, run quarterly check-ins, and make sure every milestone and deliverable lands on time.

You will not be expected to be the deepest technical expert in the room. ULI brings a senior fellow, in-house resilience experts, and a bench of consultants and specialists to these programs. Your job is to make that expertise land: own the work plans and budgets, facilitate meetings that bring states, cities, developers, insurers, and funders around the same table, and turn recommendations into sequenced action plans that agencies and housing organizations actually implement.

• Own the work plans, timelines, and multi-market coordination for both programs
• Track progress against each grant’s milestones and deliverables, including convenings, implementation briefs, diagnostics, and case studies, flagging risks early and coordinating course corrections
• Manage each grant’s budget holistically, keeping spending within approved budgets and aligned with grant terms

• Serve as day-to-day contact for the funders' program staff, including market selection, quarterly check-ins, and progress reporting
• Prepare funder reporting that reflects accurate progress against each grant’s goals, outcomes, and metrics

• Provide hands-on assistance to state agencies working to expand offsite construction and to municipalities and housing organizations advancing housing resilience
• Coordinate the Collaborative’s three work streams (policy, single-family, multifamily) in partnership with the Center for Public Enterprise, and Resilience+ market engagements and owner cohorts
• Coordinate a bench of senior technical assistance providers, consultants, and subject-matter experts so the right expertise is deployed at the right time
• Work across ULI teams, including the Foundation, Corporate Partners, and Marketing, and support periodic updates to Impact Lab leadership

• A solid grounding in housing, through policy, finance, or program delivery, with the credibility to work directly with state and city agencies
• At least 8 years of progressively responsible experience, including helping a state, city, or community design and implement a program, ideally in housing or resilience
• Demonstrated success managing large, multi-year, multi-stakeholder grants or programs, including budgets, deadlines, and funder…