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(FLSA: Non-Exempt)

Salary: $100,000 - $120,000

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Responsibilities

ORGANIZATIONAL:

This position provides strategic leadership and oversight for the Upper Broadway–Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project (UBFNTP). The Executive Director will guide this project to ensure that it meets its goals and objectives within the timelines established for implementation and that it is aligned with community needs, interests and aspirations. The Executive Director will work closely with the project’s leadership and community partners. The position also carries responsibility for budget oversight and fiscal monitoring. The Executive Director must have a strong understanding of neighborhood planning, housing, and community economic development, as well as the ability to work effectively with residents, community leaders, local government, and community-based organizations. This position is fully funded for two years with the possibility of extending.

REPORTING RELATIONS:

This position will report to the Administrative Core of the Upper Broadway–Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project on matters related to program management, partner coordination, and government relations. This position will report to the Chief Executive Officer of the Buffalo Center for health Equity on matters related to finance and development.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Program & Milestone Management

• Administer the day-to-day operations of the Upper Broadway–Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project (UBFNTP)
• Track key milestones, deliverables, and deadlines across all project initiatives.
• Oversee all policy development and legal compliance.
• Supervise staff (6) that will be hired as part of the leadership team of the ENTP.
• Oversee the recruitment, hiring, and onboarding of any staff positions approved in the future.
• Coordinate with BCHE leadership and Project’s Administrative Core [leadership group] to ensure that the project unfolds according to grant guidelines and in the interest of the community.
• Work with each of the project managers (4) to assist in implementation of programs and services and tracking of metrics. Work with the Chief Program Officer to facilitate the tracking and reporting of metrics.
• Assist, support, and provide direction to the project staff in the development and implementation of short term/long term objectives, and strategic goals.

Financial Oversight & Budget Monitoring

• Review and approve all project expenditures
• Prepare monthly budget reports via internal project management software.
• Supervises the work of the Project Administrator, who will track expenditures and complete reconciliations monthly

Partner & Stakeholder Coordination

• Track partner performance relative to agreed timelines, deliverables, and expected outcomes.
• Ensure partners have clear expectations and visibility regarding progress.
• Work closely with the Community Engagement Supervising Manager to facilitate community advisory board meetings.

Government Relations

• Develops and manages project strategy for strengthening relationships with elected officials and government agencies at the city and county level and increasing their understanding of the project

Development

• Establish a development strategy for continued funding of the UBFNTP.
• Review and approve all grant applications.
• Seek resources to support funds development staff or consultants.
• Generate major funder prospects by conducting preliminary funder research.
• Liaise with ETP and BCHE leadership members to track stewardship and cultivation of new funder leads.

Other

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

EDUCATION:

Graduate degree or professional equivalent in Urban Planning, Public Health, Social Work, or another relevant field.

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in neighborhood planning, community development, or similar activities related to development in communities of color or other underdeveloped places.
• Must understand systems change and be familiar with community land-trust, neighborhood trusts, cooperative economic development, shared housing equity housing models, and innovative housing design aimed at reducing housing costs.
• Experience building and fostering relationships with residents and community organizations in marginalized and underdeveloped neighborhoods of color.
• 10 years in organizational administration and team building management in the field of community development.
• Experience cultivating and leveraging relationships with public sector, philanthropic and private sector leaders to develop revenue sources.

Preferred Qualifications

• A high level of integrity and accountability and deep community in the development of communities of color.
• Creative thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Alignment with the vision and mission of the ENTP.
• Strong adaptability and listening skills to maintain relationships with people and organizations from all aspects of the community.
• The capacity to learn new information or skills very fast, and with minimum instruction.
• Familiarity with resident engagement strategies, cooperative development, community land trusts, solidarity economic development, and rent stabilization strategies.
• Personal discipline to complete tasks within deadlines, maintaining team rapport, accountability, and high standards of quality.

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Interested candidates should apply at: https://www.cognitoforms.com/BuffaloCenterForHealthEquity/UBFNTPED

(FLSA: Non-Exempt)

Salary: $65,000 - $70,000

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Responsibilities

ORGANIZATIONAL:

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Community Engagement Manager (CEM) will lead the Neighborhood Navigation Team of the Upper Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project. The Manager is responsible for designing and implementing the project’s resident engagement strategy. The CEM formulates a comprehensive engagement framework that operates at the household, block, planning district, and neighborhood scales. The Manager and the Neighborhood Navigators serve as the primary link between the Upper Broadway–Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project and neighborhood residents. The Manager establishes systems for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information gathered through field engagement to ensure that resident knowledge directly informs planning, development, and implementation across all project cores.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Works with the Neighborhood Transformation Core to develop surveys and data gathering methods, and dissemination procedures for data analysis summaries to the administrative team.
• Collaborates with Neighborhood Transformation Core, Housing, Infrastructure and Economic Development Core, Neighborhood Partnership Core, and Social Development Core to design and carry out Community Navigator orientations for all data gathering needs and program opportunities for residents.
• Engages directly with residents and neighborhood small business owners to learn about needs, aspirations, and current conditions of the census tract 166 neighborhoods.
• Mentors two full-time Community Navigators in the methods and strategies of daily community engagement.
• Schedules all informal group gatherings of residents and publicly announced formal meetings with residents.
• Meets weekly with Community Navigators to assess progress.
• Keeps meticulous notes of team supervision meetings and resident gathering meetings.
• Analyzes, interprets, and translates qualitative and quantitative insights generated through daily navigator engagement, ensuring that resident perspectives are systematically integrated into neighborhood planning, project development, and cross-core decision-making.
• Serves as a public presenter to neighborhood residents of community resources and opportunities from both within the Project and from other community sources.
• Maintains open communication weekly with the Project’s Executive Director.

Required Qualifications

EDUCATION:

• High School Diploma with at least 10 years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Interdisciplinary Sciences, Urban Planning, Public Health, or another relevant field with 5 years of relevant experience.

EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive experience in community organizing, preferably in the City of Buffalo.
• Working and personal experience with residents of underdeveloped neighborhoods.
• Demonstrated capacity to manage a cross-trained team working across a diverse population.
• Strong skills in engagement methods including facilitation of formal meetings, household conversations, block-level engagements, and on-the-street interactions with residents.
• Deep knowledge of the barriers residents face, the dynamics of community trust, and the operational challenges inherent in neighborhoods shaped by decades of racialized underdevelopment.
• Proven experience supervising and mentoring staff.
• Experience designing and executing plans for program or service delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Capacity to work with people from multiple cultures and social classes.
• Advanced listening skills.
• Healthy humility and a grounded communication approach that puts residents’ needs and aspirations first.

Key Competencies

• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Competency in desktop computing skills including email, word processing, file management, basic graphic design, and the ability to learn database interfacing skills.
• Highly effective time management skills.
• Effective team building and sustaining skills.
• Ability to mentor individual staff in professional impact, growth, and accountability.
• Ability to graciously receive feedback from supervisors and effectively adapt based on that feedback.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data to recommend changes in engagement strategy.
• Skills in de-escalation, diplomacy, and peacemaking to address conflicts among neighbors and between Project team members and residents.
• Ability to facilitate resident meetings to elicit the collective voice and leadership of the neighborhoods.

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Interested candidates should apply at: https://www.cognitoforms.com/BuffaloCenterForHealthEquity/UBFNTPCommunityEngagementManager