SHARE Community Land Trust is seeking a full time Program Manager who will work closely with homeowners, board of directors and other staff members in a stewardship role. We are looking for a professional coordinator who is familiar with the community land trust model, and has training and experience in some combination of management, community organizing and real estate. The coordinator’s responsibilities will be split between outreach, building the waitlist and processing applications for new Meadowlark homes, and stewardship for current homeowners. The coordinator must be able to communicate with a range of stakeholders, including homeowners, board of directors, non-profit partners, government officials and financial institutions.

Required qualifications:
-Committed to affordable housing
-Experience with homeownership programs, either as a personal homeowner or through experience in real estate, development, homeowners association or other
-Experienced public speaker
-Experience facilitating and problem solving
-Empathetic and good listener

Desired qualifications:
-Bilingual in Spanish and English
-Bachelor’s degree or higher level of education
-Familiarity with legal processes related to housing
-Accounting skills
-Familiarity with Salesforce CRM
-Familiar with real estate transactions
-Familiar with grant writing

Job requirements include:

Office:
-Head up the SHARE committee, a group of volunteers with professional backgrounds related to housing, that helps govern the CLT.
-Manage AmeriCorps volunteer.
-Upkeep homeowner data in Homekeeper, part of Salesforce CRM.

Waitlist Development and Management:
-With assistance from Community Outreach Manager, develop and manage community outreach process to develop a list of interested prospective homeowners.
-Host SHARE Community Land Trust info sessions.
-Organize homebuyer education through third party organization.
-Process potential homeowner’s applications and eligibility.
-Interview and screen potential homeowners.
-Help homeowners with mortgage resources and through the first-time homebuyer process.

Homeowner Relations:
-Build stewardship and homeowner support activities for all our housing and planned neighborhoods including but not limited to administration and development of CC&Rs.
-Homeowner’s association: plan events for homeowners to attend in an effort to build a strong sense of community and encourage involvement; plan an incentivize homeowner association meetings.
-Act as MEND representative for neighbor relations and assist/coordinate/model positive community and neighborliness and if necessary, work through dispute resolution.
-Write and collect yearly or biyearly census/survey of homeowners.
-Write and send out yearly letters with home appreciation info, bill info, etc.
-Plan MEND board, staff and homeowner events yearly or biyearly.

Sales and Refinances of SHARE homes:
-Coordinate and process all sales and resales of CLT homes.
-Recapture loaned MEND funding by soliciting and supporting current homeowners to refinance their home so these funds can be used for new home purchases and resales.
-Coordinate and process all refinancing of CLT homes.
-Help organize legal documents: purchase and sales, loans, applications, promissory notes, etc.

About SHARE CLT:
SHARE Community Land Trust (CLT) is a permanently affordable homeownership program in Leavenworth Washington, working to ensure people who live and work in the Upper Wenatchee Valley are able to afford to become homeowners and prosper in the area. It is one of five programs of Upper Valley MEND (Meeting Each Need with Dignity), the main human service non-profit organization in the Upper Wenatchee Valley. Started as a food bank in 1988, MEND has since expanded to fit the changing needs of the community. We now operate: Community Cupboard, a food bank, thrift store and emergency assistance program; Cornerstone Community, a home for six adults with developmental disabilities, The Upper Valley Free Health Clinic, a weekly free medical and dental clinic at the local hospital; Jubilee Global Gifts, a fair-trade retail store whose sales support other MEND programs; and SHARE CLT, our affordable homeownership program that currently has 2 neighborhoods with 20 homes, with a third in the works, adding 30 more affordable homes.

How to apply

Please email resumes and cover letters to Kaylin Bettinger at kaylin@uvmend.org before July 10, 2015. The salary for this position depends on experience.