DEPARTMENT: Community Programs
REPORTS TO: Director of Community Programs
STATUS: Full-Time exempt GRADE: 5
Organizational Background
Urban Edge is one of the largest not-for-profit community development corporations in Massachusetts. We are located where Boston’s Latin Quarter meets its historic African American neighborhood, at the crossroads of Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, in Jackson Square. We aim to foster diverse urban neighborhoods of choice populated by resilient families and sustained by dynamic webs of community relationships. To achieve this goal: we build quality affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households; we advise hardworking families on homeowner services, financial education, taxes, and student loans; and we organize neighbors to become leaders of community change.
Urban Edge has an annual operating budget of over $7.1 million and employs a staff of over 30. We have developed nearly 1,500 units of affordable housing and maintain a portfolio of over 1,400 units. Residents of our housing and our community are diverse and multilingual. In 2024, we anticipate serving more than 2,500 families.
OVERVIEW: Summary of Responsibilities:
This high performing individual’s primary responsibility will be to manage all aspects of the English Language First Time Homebuyer Program and coordinating the scheduling and marketing the Spanish and Haitian Creole first time homebuyer classes. Ensures that the classes are filled, and data is entered into Salesforce to meet the NeighborWorks and HUD requirements. The manager will collaborate with the Community Programs and Resource Development Directors to assign banks to classes and meet with bankers on a scheduled basis to assess their needs and advance the department’s goals. The manager will have a major impact on the department’s ability to achieve the Urban Edge wealth building goals by ensuring that the majority of the first-time homebuyer graduates sign up for the Credit Counseling Boot Camp classes. The manager will provide financial counseling to individuals to enable them to achieve their wealth building goals and foreclosure prevention counseling to help families retain their homes. The manager is required to be HUD certified or to achieve certification within one year.
In addition to managing the department’s First Time Homebuyer Program, the senior manager will co-manage the following two lines of business:
Additionally, the senior manager will co-supervise the Community Program’s Office Assistant with the Associate Director of Community Programs.
The project in the Fair Housing Marketing Program will be to complete the sale or rental of the units. This includes processing all applications, hosting informational meetings, collecting required documents and deposits, showing open houses and meeting the requirements needed to complete the sales or rent up the developments.
The co-managing of the CUE Realty LLC office, administrative and other realty functions include support of the company’s real estate broker, agents and customers to enable maximum sales and excellent service. To be successful in this position a real estate license and extensive knowledge of real estate operations is required.
The senior manager of homeownership services will collaborate with the associate director of the department in setting the goals, training, development, feedback and evaluation of the office assistant. The manager will be the curator of the records, schedule meetings and jointly prepare the evaluations.
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The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements and criteria considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
DEPARTMENT: Community Programs
REPORTS TO: Director of Community Programs
STATUS: Full-Time exempt GRADE: 5
Organizational Background
Urban Edge is one of the largest not-for-profit community development corporations in Massachusetts. We are located where Boston’s Latin Quarter meets its historic African American neighborhood, at the crossroads of Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, in Jackson Square. We aim to foster diverse urban neighborhoods of choice populated by resilient families and sustained by dynamic webs of community relationships. To achieve this goal: we build quality affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households; we advise hardworking families on homeowner services, financial education, taxes, and student loans; and we organize neighbors to become leaders of community change.
Urban Edge has an annual operating budget of over $7.1 million and employs a staff of over 30. We have developed nearly 1,500 units of affordable…
Full Benefits
Full Benefits
Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.
Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.
Please forward resume and cover letter to Maria Caceres, Director of People and Culture at careers@urbanedge.org, or mail to Urban Edge Housing Corporation, 1542 Columbus Avenue, Suite 2, Roxbury, MA
Please forward resume and cover letter to Maria Caceres, Director of People and Culture at careers@urbanedge.org, or mail to Urban Edge Housing Corporation, 1542 Columbus Avenue…