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About the Position

Are you an experienced HUD or Compliance professional? Do you excel at project management and compliance both? Do you have a knack at coordinating multiple agencies and oversight of federal programs?

This position will administer the Housing and Community Development Division's allotment of federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), HOME Investment Partnerships Program American Rescue Plan funding (HOME-ARP), and/or other funding sources specifically designed to create new affordable housing units throughout Maricopa County. This position will work to ensure project implementation and ongoing long-term compliance. This position will perform all aspects of project management and compliance, including planning, coordinating, organizing, and administering affordable housing projects. The position will manage the HCD loan portfolio, develop monitoring plans, and complete ongoing and long-term monitoring for these projects.

About Us

The Housing and Community Development Division is dedicated to improving communities and making housing in Maricopa County safe, available, and affordable. This mission is accomplished by rehabilitating and repairing homes, improving infrastructure and public facilities in low-income communities, creating affordable rental and homeownership opportunities, and working to house and shelter people.

Proud to Offer

• Perform work with a greater purpose

• Tuition reimbursement

• Exceptional work-life balance

• Opportunities for growth and development within Maricopa County

• Low-cost, high-value healthcare for you and your qualifying dependents

• Paid vacation, sick time, and parental leave

• Extensive wellness program, including healthcare premium discounts

• Employee discounts for goods and services

• Maricopa County participates in the Arizona State Retirement System. This defined retirement benefit requires a 12.29% monthly contribution rate and includes a 100% employer match on Day 1

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We Require

• One to two years of experience working with contract administration and community development and/or housing project implementation

• Bachelor's degree in public administration, business administration, social services, or a closely related field

We Value

• Four years of administrative experience directly related to administering federal funding or affordable housing development

• Experience with affordable housing development

• Experience performing complex financial project underwriting

• Experience maintaining compliance for HUD-funded programs, specifically the HOME Investment Partnerships Program

• A master's degree in public policy, political science, public administration, or a related field

Job Contributions

• Coordinate, organize, administer, and audit the development, management, administration, and implementation of multiple funding sources associated with affordable housing and community development projects

• Establish and implement systems and tools to successfully track and monitor ARPA, HOME, or other federal grant funds, including performance metrics, compliance, portfolio management, and long-term monitoring of projects.

• Participate in the design criteria, request for proposal (RFP), contract negotiation, administering contract standards, underwriting and cost analysis, and developing contract documents.

• Administer sub-recipient and vendor contracts, including processing monthly expenditure reimbursements and monitoring outputs/outcomes.

• Provide technical assistance to partners, ensure contract compliance, and maintain deadlines of sub-recipient or developer agreements.

• Serve as monitoring program lead for the Division's ARPA, HOME, or other affordable housing contracts and activities, including performing Housing Quality Standards (HQS) inspections, financial feasibility tests, tenant file reviews, and other monitoring aspects.

• Complete expenditure analyses and track monthly program performance, present findings to internal staff to inform business decisions

• Complete public policy research and wrote reports, briefings, fact sheets, correspondence, and various other documents for internal and external stakeholders.

• Coordinate planning and performance reporting activities with appropriate agencies, including sub-recipients; consultants; relevant state, local, and federal agencies; County departments; and non-profit and for-profit agencies.

• Collect and analyze relevant data and assist with preparing complex reports to federal agencies and close-out documents for contracts; perform data input into HUD's Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS)

• Develop and maintain an asset and loan portfolio system and a monitoring plan for ongoing and long-term monitoring of affordable housing projects.

Working Conditions

• Work is routinely performed in an office environment, which may require long sitting, reading, and typing periods

• Requires travel to program sites throughout Maricopa County

• The position requires travel to and from various county, client, and contractor locations during a scheduled workday, subject to County policies regarding the use of County vehicles and/or private vehicles used on County business

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain a valid Arizona driver's license at the time of hire

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain an Arizona Department of Public Safety Level 1 Fingerprint Clearance Card

Selection Procedure

• Only the most qualified candidates will be considered

• Consideration will only be given to candidates who submit online applications

• Candidates will be contacted primarily through email and their Workday online application profile

• Must pass a pre-employment background and/or fingerprint investigation as required by statute or policy, including drug and alcohol testing requirements for positions designated as safety-sensitive

Maricopa County is an equal opportunity employer.

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