Community Economic Defense Project works to help people facing financial hardship avoid eviction and withstand economic abuse. The organization combines legal representation, financial assistance, and resource navigation to protect housing and community wealth, while advocating for policies that strengthen stability for vulnerable populations. Its work may appeal to professionals interested in housing security, legal support, and economic justice.
Senior Housing Compliance Manager at Community Economic Defense Project - Colorado Hybrid
Lead HUD housing subsidy compliance for CEDP in Colorado while supervising coordinators, auditing programs, and helping protect housing stability for vulnerable households.
Description
- Lead and support Housing Coordinators in researching, monitoring, and applying HUD rules and regulations
- Maintain compliance with federal, state, local, Fair Housing, HUD, and CEDP requirements
- Oversee CEDP housing subsidy programs and maximize the effective use of available housing resources
- Provide technical direction on HUD regulations and program policies
- Audit participant files and programs, then address findings through corrective action plans
- Create and update training resources, manuals, reference cards, and related materials for Housing Coordinators
- Promote nondiscriminatory housing practices grounded in harm reduction, anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, and other evidence-based approaches
- Support orientations, Housing Quality Standards inspections, lease-ups, tenant conferences, recertifications, and repayment agreement calculations
- Manage a caseload of 100–150 households
- Help resolve escalated issues involving landlords, participants, and case managers through collaborative problem-solving
- Work with case managers, CEDP colleagues, and external agencies to support housing stability
- Use housing databases and complete data entry in HMIS, HubSpot, Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Elite, ShareFile, and other platforms
- Contribute to improvements in processes, systems, and technology
- Help sustain a respectful, inclusive, collaborative, and team-focused workplace
- Complete additional duties as assigned
Requirements
- At least one year supervising or managing a housing program
- Current HCV Specialist certification
- Strong critical-thinking and decision-making abilities
- Ability to interpret complex federal regulations and apply their implications to agency policies and procedures
- Highly organized, thorough, proactive, detail-focused, and capable of managing competing priorities
- Ability to stay organized in a changing work environment
- Strong customer-service skills
- Excellent interpersonal and assertive communication skills, with a high level of emotional intelligence
- Understanding of homelessness and a demonstrated commitment to working with underserved populations
- Foundational understanding of how trauma, structural racism, and oppression affect people experiencing homelessness who interact with CEDP
- Reliable transportation
- Must live in Colorado, preferably in the greater Denver metropolitan area
- Vaccination status must align with current CDC recommendations because occasional in-person work is required
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Flexible paid time off
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- $1,000 annual hybrid-work salary adjustment
- $720 annual technology stipend
- $2,000 annual salary differential for employees who use two or more languages at work, subject to organizational language assessment
- Hybrid work arrangement