**About the Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) & CED Law **
Our Mission
We partner with low-income and working people to build economic and racial equity. We do this by confronting economic abuse and investing in community wealth. We use an ever-evolving set of legal, economic and advocacy tools to challenge and dismantle unjust systems, building quickly towards a world where all people have what they need to live and thrive.
Our Organization
The Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) is a Colorado-based nonprofit. Launched in 2020 as the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, our organization was formed to keep our neighbors housed during the pandemic. Working with clients, we built a “one-stop-shop” approach to eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness prevention that centers the legal and financial needs of housing-insecure families and uses a variety of tools to keep them housed.
Our team now serves more than 1,000 people per month, bringing together housing lawyers, economists, data analysts, policy-experts, organizers, and technologists to serve our clients. In the previous two years, we have distributed more than $100 million in aid and served more than 40,000 Coloradans. We have also contributed to the passage of major legislation to prevent eviction, stop economic abuse, and make credit and life-saving medication cheaper. CEDP’s model has been cited as a best practice by White House, HUD, the Urban Institute, and in the media.
Building on our work to stop evictions, CEDP has further expanded its integrated services model to include disaster response, predatory towing, debt collection, benefit access & navigation, long-term rental assistance, and homelessness response. Similar to CEDP’s work on rental housing, these efforts offer a continuum of care that includes navigation and advisory services, targeted payments, legal support, and the ability to participate in advocacy.
More about the Head of Rental Programs Role:
We are actively in search of a Head of Rental Programs who will be charged with ensuring the quality and equity-minded service provisions across all current and future supportive housing programs. A key component of the role will also be to ensure ongoing client-centered program quality. The position will ensure all supportive services are informed by current best practices and research to support families to obtain and/or retain housing as quickly and as trauma-informed as possible. Additionally, you will be a member of the executive team, where you will play a crucial role in fostering cross-collaboration among different departments and teams within the organization.
In the Head of Rental Programs role you will:
Provide vision, strategy, operations, and process leadership for rental programs and new rental program initiatives at CEDP (e.g., Housing subsidies, integrated supportive services, housing navigation, rental assistance, and other related programs).
Support fundraising efforts for new services, including foundation fundraising and public programs
Implement newly funded programs in conjunction with existing CEDP services
Oversee a program budget and guide fundraising efforts
Manage relationships with key stakeholders, including funders and program managers at non-profit and public grantor organizations
Ensure client care is provided equitably across communities through partnership management, outreach, and consistent evaluation and program improvement
Support a team of 2-3 direct reports within an org of 30+ employees
Develop and maintain relationships and partnerships with external groups in the public interest and housing justice world
Ensure the incorporation of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as well as other key organizational values, into program delivery, planning and execution.
Set high standards of performance; pursue aggressive goals and work hard/smart to
achieve them; strive for results and success; convey a sense of urgency and bring issues to closure; and persist despite obstacles and opposition
Position Requirements:
5+ years of progressive leadership roles with demonstrated experience leading high-performing teams, with the ability to mentor and develop team members to reach their full potential.
3+ years experience managing housing subsidy programs (HCV, CoC, etc.)
Recognizes trends within housing and human services; works to develop new rental programs and develop new strategies to make existing rental programs more successful.
In depth knowledge of supportive housing programs and evidence-based interventions for serving people at risk of/actively experiencing homelessness.
A creative, self-driven attitude and proven ability to build something new from scratch.
A background working with diverse communities and a diverse set of stakeholders, and a passion for challenging systems of racial and economic inequity.
Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced, all hands-on-deck environment.
Excellent oral communications skills and the ability to influence leaders through logic, data, and presentation skills.
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to manage complex stakeholder environments.
A history of demonstrated excellence in your career.
Additional Details:
The position includes competitive pay, flexible time off, benefits package (including medical, dental, vision), and 401k.
A competitive salary starting at $110,000/year, along CEDP’s salary scale.
As in-person work is sometimes required, all employees at CEDP & CED Law are expected to maintain current vaccination status in keeping with CDC recommendations.
CEDP is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Employment decisions are made without regard of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.