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(FLSA: Non-Exempt)

Salary: $65,000 - $70,000

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ORGANIZATIONAL:

Reporting to the Executive Director of the Upper Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project (UBFNTP), the Buffalo Center for Health Equity is seeking a strategic and relationship-oriented Partnership Core Coordinator (PCC) to strengthen the network of institutional relationships, opportunities, and external supports necessary to advance and sustain the project’s long-term neighborhood transformation strategy. 

The Partnership Core Coordinator serves as a primary connector between UBFNTP and government entities, foundations, businesses, universities, nonprofit organizations, community institutions, and other external partners whose expertise, programs, influence, relationships, and institutional capacities can contribute to the work of neighborhood transformation.

The Partnership Core Coordinator collaborates closely with the Executive Director and Oversight Managers of the Neighborhood Transformation Core and Partnership Core. The position combines strategic partnership development, institutional engagement, policy awareness, opportunity analysis, and cross-sector coordination. The successful candidate will understand that institutional relationships and external opportunities should support—and not determine—the direction of a resident-centered neighborhood transformation strategy. 

This position is particularly important to the project’s ability to translate institutional relationships into meaningful, coordinated support for neighborhood priorities while building the partnerships and infrastructure necessary for the initiative’s long-term sustainability. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Develop and implement a comprehensive partnership strategy that strengthens the project's relationships with public, private, nonprofit, philanthropic, higher education, and community institutions.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with government agencies, foundations, businesses, universities, nonprofit organizations, and other institutions whose work intersect with the goals of UBFNTP.
• Educate institutional and community partners about the project’s purpose, resident-centered approach, priorities, strategies, and emerging work.
• Build understanding of institutional support for the project among key external stakeholders.
• Monitor legislation, government budgets, public policy, institutional initiatives, and emerging opportunities or challenges relevant to the project and the Upper Broadway–Fillmore neighborhood.
• Identify opportunities for institutions to contribute expertise, technical assistance, programs, policy support, connections, and other forms of organizational capacity that advance neighborhood priorities.
• Research public programs, institutional initiatives, technical assistance opportunities, and other external mechanisms that may support project priorities.
• Collaborate with the Executive Director and project Cores to determine how external institutions and opportunities can appropriately support identified project priorities.
• Work with Core leaders to identify funding needs and develop competitive funding strategies.
• Coordinate information, documentation, project descriptions, data, and other necessary materials needed for project leadership and/or consultants to pursue external opportunities on behalf of UBFNTP.
• Maintain records of institutional relationships, partnership activities, commitments, opportunities, deliverables, and follow-up responsibilities.
• Support development of long-term institutional partnerships that strengthen the project’s capacity, continuity, reach, and impact.
• Represent the project professionally with external partners and stakeholders.
• Represent UBFNTP professionally in meetings, convenings, community events, and other engagements with external partners and stakeholders.
• Perform other duties necessary to strengthen the project’s partnerships, institutional coordination, and long-term sustainability.

Required Qualifications

EDUCATION:

• High school diploma or equivalent and at least ten years of relevant professional experience in strategic partnerships, government relations, nonprofit management, community development, public administration, institutional relations, or related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in nonprofit management, public administration, public policy, business, community development, communications, or a related field, OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience. 

Relevant experience may be gained in nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, government, higher education, public service, advocacy organizations, businesses, or other settings involving cross-sector collaboration and institutional partnerships.

EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strategic partnerships and communicate organizational priorities to diverse institutional stakeholders.
• Strong writing, research, project management, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to cultivate productive relationships across government, business, higher education, nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, and community-based organizations.
• Ability to research and assess public policy, institutional initiatives, government programs, and external opportunities relevant to organizational priorities.
• Ability to work collaboratively with project leadership and other Cores to align external resources with neighborhood priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple partners, priorities, deadlines, and follow-up responsibilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in public administration, public policy, nonprofit management, business administration, urban planning, community development, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Three or more years of relevant professional experience in strategic partnerships, government relations, institutional engagement, community development, public administration, or cross-sector collaboration.
• Experience monitoring government budgets, legislation, public policy, institutional initiatives, and public programs relevant to housing, health, education, economic development, or neighborhood revitalization.
• Experience identifying and evaluating opportunities for organizations to access technical assistance, expertise, programs, services, research, policy support, or other forms of institutional capacity.
• Experience coordinating complex collaborative initiatives involving multiple departments, organizations, or institutional partners.
• Established relationships with government agencies, businesses, universities, nonprofit institutions, community-based organizations, and other institutions in Buffalo and Western New York.
• Understanding of resident-centered community development, equitable institutional partnership, and strategies for ensuring that external organizations support community-defined priorities.
• Knowledge of Upper Broadway–Fillmore and the broader East Buffalo community, including neighborhood assets, institutions, challenges, and resident priorities.

Key Competencies: 

• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Strategic relationship building and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong research, analysis, and organizational skills are important.
• Ability to identify connections between project priorities and external programs, policies, expertise, and institutional capacity.
• Ability to understand and navigate complex institutional environments.
• Effective project coordination and time management skills.
• Ability to build and sustain collaborative relationships across diverse organizations and sectors.
• Sound judgment when representing the project with external stakeholders.
• Ability to maintain organized records of partnerships, commitments, opportunities, and follow-up activities.
• Ability to receive and effectively incorporate supervisory feedback.
• Ability to analyze information and recommend adjustments to partnership strategy.
• Proficiency with email, word processing, file management, collaborative work platforms, databases, and other standard office technology.

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(FLSA: Non-Exempt)

Salary: $65,000 - $70,000

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ORGANIZATIONAL:

Reporting to the Executive Director of the Upper Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project (UBFNTP), the Buffalo Center for Health Equity is seeking a collaborative, community-centered professional to serve as Social Development Core Coordinator (SDC). 

The Social Development Core Coordinator will help develop an integrated social development system that supports residents and families across generations by designing programs, projects, and activities that promote mental and physical health, education, social development, and economic well-being. The position will work across five priority areas: early childhood literacy, youth development, health and food security, support for elders, and neighborhood workforce training and development. 

A central responsibility will be to ensure that these efforts are connected to and align with overall project goals rather than developed as isolated programs. The SDC will help build a coordinated social development system that responds to the needs, aspirations, and lived experiences of residents of the Upper Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Work with the Social Development Core to develop activities, projects, and programs
• that promotes health, education, and social development across generations.
• Advance initiatives in five priority areas:
• Early childhood literacy
• Youth development
• Health and food security
• Support for elders
• Neighborhood workforce training and development
• Support the development of innovative reading initiatives for children from preschool through middle school.
• Develop and strengthen programming and support for older adults.
• In collaboration with the Housing, Neighborhood, and Economic Development Core, support development of workforce training and development for residents.
• Build relationships with schools, universities, social-service organizations, health
• organizations, community groups, and neighborhood residents.
• Develop partnerships with the Schools of Social Work at Buffalo State University and the University at Buffalo and other relevant institutions.
• Help ensure initiatives reinforce and support each other rather than operate as isolated programs.
• Support an integrated approach to health, education, social development, and economic opportunities.
• Assist individuals, households, and families in navigating challenges and connecting with appropriate resources and support.
• Identify gaps in existing services, programs, and support.
• Monitor implementation and identify opportunities to improve programs based on resident feedback and experience.
• Perform other duties necessary to advance the project’s social development goals.

Required Qualifications

EDUCATION:

• High school diploma or equivalent and at least ten years of relevant professional experience in social work, education, public health, human services, community development, psychology, sociology, or related field; OR
• Bachelor’s degree in social work, education, public health, human services, community development, psychology, sociology, or related field, OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with individuals, families, community organizations, institutions, and service providers.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple programs, partnerships, or initiatives.
• Understanding the social, educational, health, and economic conditions affecting historically underserved communities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work, education, public health, human services, community development, psychology, sociology, or related field, OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• 3+ years of progressively responsible experience in social development, community development, education, public health, or human services.
• Professional licensure or certification appropriate to the candidate’s field (e.g., LMSW/LCSW, teaching certification, public-health certification) is desirable but not required.
• Experience developing cross-sector partnerships involving schools, universities, health organizations, social-service organizations, or community-based organizations.
• Experience developing programs serving children, families, older adults, or individuals experiencing economic hardship.
• Experience with workforce development or adult education.
• Knowledge of Buffalo/East Buffalo community organizations and institutional resources.
• Experience using resident feedback and community engagement to design, evaluate, and improve programs.

Key Competencies: 

• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Competency in desktop computing skills including email, word-processing, file management, and basic graphic design, and ability to learn interfacing skills with a database.
• 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 make use of it to adapt.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data to recommend changes in engagement strategy.
• Skills of de-escalation, diplomacy, and peacemaking to deal with conflicts amongst 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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Salary: $65,000 - $70,000

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ORGANIZATIONAL:

Reporting to the Executive Director of the Upper Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project (UBFNTP), the Communications Specialist (CS) will lead communications for the Upper Broadway–Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project. 

The Communications Specialist will be responsible for developing and managing the public narrative of the project—helping neighborhood residents, community organizations, policymakers, institutional partners, and the broader public understand what the project is, why it exists, what it is learning, and where it is going. 

This is more than a traditional communications role. The successful candidate will be able to understand complex ideas about neighborhood transformation, political economy, health equity, community development, and resident power and translate them into language that is clear, compelling, accessible, and grounded in the lived experiences of the neighborhood.

The candidate must have remarkably high political IQ and be able to effectively translate complex theoretical knowledge and understanding into a narrative that is understandable to neighborhood residents, as well as political leaders, people both locally and nationally. At the same time, the candidate must be able to develop and coordinate multimedia information about the Upper Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project. 

The Communications Specialist will work closely with the Oversight Managers of the Neighborhood Transformation Core and the Executive Director. The position will interact with project Cores, residents, community partners, and institutional stakeholders. They will regularly interact with the navigators to gain deeper insight into the challenges facing the community. 

The successful candidate will understand that communication is not simply about telling people what the project is doing. It is about creating meaningful two-way communication that helps residents remain informed, connected, heard, and able to participate in shaping the future of their neighborhood.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Develop and manage the public narrative and communications strategy for the Transformation Project.
• Translate complex theoretical, policy, development, and neighborhood transformation concepts into accessible communications.
• Develop communications tailored to residents, community organizations, policymakers, institutional partners, funders, and the broader public.
• Establish and maintain regular, interactive communication with neighborhood residents.
• Manage the project’s email, text-alert, Listserv, website, and social media communications.
• Develop and oversee content for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, and other appropriate platforms.
• Support the development and maintenance of a robust, accessible, and resident-centered project website.
• Develop newsletters, announcements, project updates, digital content, public statements, and other communications materials.
• Collaborate closely with the Executive Director, Oversight Manager of the Neighborhood Transformation Core and project Cores to identify stories, developments, opportunities, and issues requiring public communication.
• Help ensure consistency between the project’s public narrative and its underlying strategy, values, and goals.
• Develop communications that elevate resident knowledge, experience, participation, and leadership.
• Monitor public discourse and emerging issues that may affect the project or the neighborhood.
• Support communications surrounding major meetings, events, partnerships, campaigns, and project milestones.
• Help build public understanding of the Transformation Project as a demonstration model for radical neighborhood change.

Required Qualifications

EDUCATION:

• High School Diploma or equivalent and at least seven years of relevant professional experience in strategic communications, journalism, public relations, digital media, professional writing, or a related field; OR
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations, English, political science, public policy, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience in strategic communications, journalism, public relations, digital media, professional writing, advocacy communications, or a related field.

EXPERIENCE:

• Excellent writing skills and demonstrated ability to write political narratives, and different types of stories and content for diverse audiences and communication platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to develop clear, compelling written content for diverse audiences and communication platforms.
• Experience managing digital communications, including websites, email communications, social media, newsletters, or text-based outreach.
• Ability to translate complex ideas, research, public policy, and community development concepts into accessible, accurate, and engaging language.
• Strong editing, research, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrated judgment in communicating sensitive or complex issues and the ability to collaborate with residents, project staff, community partners, and institutional stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in communications, journalism, public policy, urban planning, political science, or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience in strategic communications, journalism, public relations, digital media, professional writing, advocacy communications, or a related field.
• Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in strategic communications, public narrative development, journalism, advocacy communications, community engagement, or a related field.
• Experience developing and implementing a comprehensive communications strategy across digital, print, and community-based platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex theoretical, political, economic, or social issues without oversimplifying them.
• Experience with one or more of the following: website content management systems, email distribution platforms, social media analytics, graphic design tools, photography, video, or multimedia storytelling.
• Familiarity with neighborhood revitalization, community organizing, public health equity, racial and economic justice, or resident-led development.
• Knowledge of Buffalo’s neighborhoods, local institutions, community history, and media landscape, or demonstrated ability to learn and engage effectively with local communities.
• Experience producing communications that elevate resident voices, reflect community priorities, and build public understanding and support for long-term neighborhood transformation.

Key Competencies: 

• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Competency in desktop computing skills including email, word-processing, file management, and basic graphic design, and ability to learn interfacing skills with a database.
• Highly effective time management skills.
• Effective team building and sustaining skills.
• Ability to mentor individual staff with professional impact, growth, and accountability.
• Ability to graciously receive feedback from supervisors and effectively make use of it to adapt.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data to recommend changes in communications strategy.

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(FLSA: Exempt)

$26–$28/hour

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Responsibilities

ORGANIZATIONAL:

Reporting to the Executive Director of the Upper Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project, the Executive Assistant will provide high-level administrative and operational support to the Executive Director and serve as an important nerve center for the initiative. This position will help create the organizational systems, coordination practices, and information infrastructure necessary to support a complex, community-centered neighborhood transformation effort. 

The EA will work across the project’s organizational Cores and will play a vital role in ensuring that information, schedules, records, meetings, reporting requirements, and administrative processes remain coordinated and accessible.

The ideal candidate understands that strong administrative systems are not simply paperwork; they create a structure that allows a complex community initiative to communicate, coordinate, learn, and follow through. This position is paid hourly. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Work across four interconnected areas: housing rehabilitation, new housing construction, neighborhood physical infrastructure, and community economic development.
• Provide high-level administrative and operational support to the Executive Director.
• Manage calendars, scheduling, meetings, events, travel arrangements, and related planning.
• Prepare agendas, meeting materials, correspondence, presentations, and other project documents.
• Establish and maintain centralized project records, files, databases, and document-management systems.
• Serve as an administrative liaison across the project’s organizational Cores.
• Support coordination, reporting, documentation, compliance, and information-sharing requirements.
• Assist with project budget management, expenditure tracking, procurement coordination, and financial documentation.
• Prepare monthly budget reconciliation reports in collaboration with the Executive
• Director and appropriate Buffalo Center for Health Equity (BCHE) staff.
• Track action items, deadlines, deliverables, and follow-up project activities.
• Support the development and implementation of organizational operating procedures and administrative systems.
• Help ensure that important project information is documented, organized, and accessible to those who need it.
• Collaborate effectively with residents, community organizations, institutional partners, project staff, and other stakeholders.
• Provide additional administrative and operational support as needed to advance the goals of the Transformation Project.

Required Qualifications

EDUCATION:

• High School Diploma or equivalent and at least five years of relevant professional experience in executive assistance, office administration, project coordination, operational support, or a related field; OR
• Associate degree in business administration, office administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience in executive assistance, office administration, project coordination, operational support, or a related field; OR
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration, nonprofit management, or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience in executive assistance, office administration, project coordination, operational support, or a related field.

EXPERIENCE:

• The successful candidate will be a highly organized and dependable professional with experience in office administration, project coordination, executive support, or related field.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office or comparable productivity tools, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, calendars, and digital file management.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage schedules, coordinate meetings, maintain records, track deadlines, and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to communicate professionally with residents, staff, institutional partners, and members of the public.
• Demonstrated mindfulness, discretion, sound judgment, and the ability to manage confidential information appropriately.
• Ability to support budget tracking, expense documentation, purchasing, recordkeeping,and administrative reporting.
• Ability to work independently while coordinating closely with the Executive Director and project staff.
• At least three years of relevant experience in housing, neighborhood revitalization, community development, economic development, construction, or rehabilitation initiatives, or related areas.
• Demonstrated understanding of affordable housing challenges affecting low- and moderate-income households, including homeowners who need repairs and rehabilitation.
• Experience coordinating projects, developing partnerships, solving problems, and working with organizations, institutions, and diverse community stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively, manage competing priorities, and translate neighborhood needs into practical strategies and initiatives.


Preferred Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience supporting executive leadership, managing office operations, or coordinating complex projects.
• Experience supporting budgets, financial reconciliations, procurement, expense tracking, grant documentation, or compliance reporting.
• Experience developing administrative systems, standard operating procedures, document-management practices, and workflows for a new or growing organization.
• Proficiency with project management, databases, scheduling, and collaborative work platforms.
• Experience working in a nonprofit, community development, public service, higher education, or mission-driven organization.
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate leadership needs, resolve administrative challenges, improve operational efficiency and maintain effective coordination across multiple teams.

Key Competencies: 

• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Competency in desktop computing skills including email, word-processing, file management, and basic graphic design, and ability to learn interfacing skills with a database.
• Highly effective time management skills.
• Effective team building and sustaining skills.
• Ability to graciously receive feedback from supervisors and effectively make use of it to adapt.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data to recommend changes in communications strategy.

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Responsibilities

ORGANIZATIONAL:

Reporting to the Executive Director of the Upper Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project (UBFNTP), the Buffalo Center for Health Equity is seeking an experienced community development professional to serve as the Housing, Neighborhood, and Economic Development Core Coordinator (HNEC) for the Upper Broadway–Fillmore Neighborhood Transformation Project. 

The HNEC will play a leading role in advancing the project’s housing, physical development, and community economic development strategy. The position must be a visionary with outstanding organization, communications, and relationship building skills. The position must have the vision and foresight to imagine new ways of organizing non-profits in the housing repair field, understand how to build a neighborhood economy based on cooperative economics, and imagine ways to enable tenants gain control over their living spaces. 

A major focus of the position will be helping to reimagine how housing is developed, rehabilitated, financed, and maintained in Upper Broadway–Fillmore, with particular attention to improving the quality of homes where residents already live, reducing housing costs, and keeping housing affordable for neighborhood residents.

The HNEC works closely with and reports to the Oversight Managers of the relevant project Core(s). The ideal candidate will understand housing not simply as a commodity, but as a fundamental component of neighborhood health, stability, wealth, and quality of life—and will be prepared to help develop new approaches that allow residents to remain, thrive, and build assets in Upper Broadway–Fillmore Neighborhood.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Work across four interconnected areas: housing rehabilitation, new housing construction, neighborhood physical infrastructure, and community economic development.
• Work with Core Oversight Managers to develop agendas, priorities, strategies, and implementation plans.
• Lead efforts to advance innovative approaches to housing rehabilitation and development.
• Support strategies that reduce the cost of housing construction and rehabilitation and develop strategies to organize tenants and help them gain control over their housing situations.
• Identify approaches that can reduce rents and preserve affordable housing.
• Help operationalize the “Fix the Houses Where People Actually Live” and “Whole House Repair” initiatives.
• Work closely with Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Housing Services to plan, organize, and implement housing-repair initiatives.
• Build relationships with housing organizations, community development organizations, government agencies, financial institutions, and other relevant partners.
• Develop collaborative housing and neighborhood-development projects.
• Support efforts to increase resources available to Broadway-Fillmore Neighborhood Housing Services.
• Collaborate with low-income homeowners to identify and address housing needs.
• Support development of new housing construction strategies.
• Identify opportunities for community ownership and other innovative approaches to neighborhood development.
• Support physical infrastructure and neighborhood improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to strategies for community economic development and increased neighborhood economic opportunity.
• Help coordinate housing and economic-development activities with the project’s broader resident-engagement and neighborhood-transformation strategy.
• Track emerging housing, development, financing, and policy opportunities affecting the neighborhood.
• Perform other duties necessary to advance the project’s housing, neighborhood, and economic-development goals.

Required Qualifications

EDUCATION:

• High school diploma or equivalent and at least ten years of relevant professional experience in housing, urban planning, community development, economic development, public administration, neighborhood revitalization, or related field; OR
• Associate’s degree in urban planning, housing, community development, economic development, public administration or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience; OR
• Bachelor’s degree in urban planning, housing, community development, economic development, public administration, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated understanding of affordable housing challenges affecting low- and moderate-income households, including homeowners who need repairs and rehabilitation.
• Experience coordinating projects, developing partnerships, solving problems, and working with organizations, institutions, and diverse community stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively, manage competing priorities, and translate neighborhood needs into practical strategies and initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in urban planning, community development, public administration, real estate development, or a related field, and at least three years of relevant professional experience in housing, community development, economic development, neighborhood revitalization, or related field.
• Three or more years of relevant professional experience, particularly in affordable housing, home repair and rehabilitation, neighborhood revitalization, or community economic development.
• Experience developing or implementing housing initiatives, securing funding, coordinating construction or rehabilitation projects, or working with public and private housing programs.
• Familiarity with federal, New York State, and City of Buffalo housing and community development programs and funding opportunities.
• Knowledge of community ownership models, equitable development, community development finance, and strategies for preserving housing affordability.
• Established relationships with housing organizations, community development corporations, contractors, public agencies, or neighborhood-based organizations in Buffalo.
• Knowledge of Upper Broadway–Fillmore and the broader East Buffalo community, including neighborhood assets, housing conditions, and resident priorities.

Key Competencies: 

• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Competency in desktop computing skills including email, word-processing, file management, and basic graphic design, and ability to learn interfacing skills with a database.
• Highly effective time management skills.
• Effective team building and sustaining skills.
• Ability to mentor individual staff in professional impact, growth as well as accountability.
• Ability to graciously receive feedback from supervisors and effectively make use of it to adapt.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data to recommend changes in communications strategy.

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