Special Advisor – Neighborhood Investment

Role Overview

• Manage day-to-day execution of GBC's 12-month vacant housing and neighborhood investment initiative.
• Work closely with the President & CEO and Chief Strategy Officer to translate strategic priorities into actionable work plans, timelines, and deliverables.
• Coordinate progress across major workstreams, including investment strategy development, project pipeline creation, Funders' Consortium formation, governance activities, and implementation planning.
• Maintain project schedules, milestone trackers, decision logs, and executive briefing materials.
• Identify implementation risks, coordination gaps, and emerging issues, recommending solutions to maintain project momentum.
• Ensure accountability across multiple partners and workstreams.
• Serve as GBC's day-to-day and strategic project leader with Enterprise Community Partners.
• Coordinate meetings, work products, information requests, and implementation activities.
• Review deliverables to ensure alignment with GBC's strategic objectives and funder expectations.
• Facilitate collaboration among Enterprise, GBC staff, public agencies, developers, financial institutions, philanthropic organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Translate technical analyses into clear materials for executive leadership, funders, and civic partners.
• Support GBC’s Vacant Housing Steering Committee, Advisory Committee, and related governance structures.
• Prepare agendas, briefing memoranda, presentations, meeting summaries, and follow-up materials.
• Track recommendations, decisions, action items, and implementation priorities.
• Support discussions regarding capital deployment, project prioritization, underwriting, sequencing, and implementation readiness.
• Help maintain alignment among GBC leadership, committee members, public-sector partners, philanthropic organizations, and financial institutions.
• Assist with the design, launch, and ongoing coordination of the Funders' Consortium.
• Support engagement with banks, foundations, CDFIs, mission-based lenders, anchor institutions, and other capital partners.
• Prepare investment briefings, project summaries, presentation materials, and partner communications.
• Coordinate consortium meetings and project review sessions.
• Track partner interests, commitments, and follow-up activities.
• Coordinate development of a prioritized neighborhood investment pipeline.
• Organize information from developers, public agencies, community development organizations, and capital providers.
• Support documentation of project readiness, capital requirements, neighborhood context, and implementation barriers.
• Prepare materials connecting individual projects to the broader investment strategy.
• Help ensure discussions appropriately reflect affordability, community benefit, family stability, neighborhood market restoration, and long-term investment goals.
• Prepare and deliver polished materials for executive, board, philanthropic, and public audiences.
• Draft partner updates, funder reports, presentations, briefing papers, and initiative summaries.
• Translate complex housing, finance, governance, and investment concepts into clear and accessible communications.
• Support preparation for meetings involving senior public officials, institutional partners, investors, and community stakeholders.
• Ensure consistent messaging regarding GBC's leadership role, the Enterprise partnership, and the initiative's long-term objectives.

Requirements

• 8–10 years of progressively responsible experience in housing, community development, real estate, urban planning, economic development, philanthropy, public policy, community development finance, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success managing complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives.
• Knowledge of affordable housing, vacant housing redevelopment, neighborhood revitalization, or public-private investment strategies.
• Experience working with senior leaders across government, philanthropy, financial institutions, nonprofit organizations, development firms, and civic organizations.
• Exceptional project management skills, including managing multiple priorities, timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder relationships.
• Outstanding written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations and executive-level materials.
• Strong judgment, professionalism, diplomacy, and discretion.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining close collaboration with executive leadership.