What We Offer

The City and County of Denver offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. The starting salary range for this position is $90,000-110,000/year, based on education and experience. We also offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but is not limited to:

• Four (4) Medical Plans, Dental, Vision Insurance

• Pension Plan for Life (Employee contributes 8.45%, Employer matches at 17.95%)

• 457 (b) Retirement Plan (no early withdrawal fee!)

• PTO (over 3 weeks in your first year) and 13 paid holidays

• Yearly Merit Increase

• STD, LTD, HSA, FSA, Life Insurance

• CARE Bank, Family Leave Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program, Employee Volunteer Program

• Tuition Reimbursement (up to $2000/year), We Qualify for Student Loan Forgiveness Program

• Learning and Development Opportunities; Courses and Career Development Resources

• EcoPass (unlimited free RTD bus/train rides)

Location

The City and County of Denver supports a hybrid workplace model. Employees’ physical work location is based upon the position’s job duties and requirements, customer service and responsiveness, team and individual performance, and business needs and requirements. Our current practice requires in-office work for all employees for a minimum of three days per week. Business needs and initial onboarding may require additional days in the office.

Please note: Downtown parking expenses are the responsibility of the employee. We offer a flexible spending account option specifically for parking; if you elect this option, you can use pre tax dollars for parking. We also offer an RTD ‘eco pass’ to all City employees– allowing the use of public transportation for free as a City Employee. 

What You’ll Do

Community Planning and Development (CPD) is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented individual to serve as the HUD PRO Housing Grant Administrator. In this role, you will be responsible for administering and managing the City’s PRO Housing Grant, ensuring the effective implementation of this $4.5M federal grant to remove barriers to affordable housing while maintaining compliance with all funding regulations and program objectives. You will coordinate the planning and execution of all grant activities, and guide collaboration with various city departments and external stakeholders across projects to ensure the efficient disbursement of funds, project tracking, and performance reporting.  You will also supplement the efforts of project managers for the seven grant activities as needed. This position will be essential to delivering the benefits to low- and moderate-income persons, including the facilitation of affordable housing production in accordance with HUD requirements.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Oversee the ongoing administration of the HUD PRO Housing Grant, managing all phases of grant processing from establishment to post-award monitoring and close out in 2029.

• Budget management: Oversee the grant budgets by position type, working in HUD’s Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting (DRGR) system and Workday to ensure timely payment of grant funding.

• Grant Reporting: Work with project teams to develop a system for timely reporting on progress and metrics as identified in the HUD approved Action Plan on a quarterly basis and complete an annual report. Coordinate with CPD’s communications team to assist in the maintenance of the required public website that provides information on how the grant funds are being used and related progress.

• Compliance Monitoring: Build a working knowledge of HUD requirements to ensure ongoing compliance and successful administration of the grant.

• Interagency Communications and Coordination: Oversee the ongoing management, coordination and advancement of all HUD approved across CPD, the Department of Housing Stability (HOST), and other agencies for each relevant activity to advance affordable housing across Denver.

• Provide support for the project managers of the seven grant activities on an as-needed basis.

We value diversity of ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, sexual identity, gender, religion, language, ability, and experience and exemplify this through the makeup of our team at all levels. You'll be right at home here if you cultivate strong relationships and push yourself, your work, the people around you and Denver to the next level.

Our ideal candidate has some or all the following experience, skills, and characteristics:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning Finance, Public Administration, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.

• Five (5) years of professional-level experience managing or administering grants, including housing or community development grants.

• Experience in federal grant administration including ongoing grant compliance and required reporting with funding requirements. Ideally, a foundational knowledge of the Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting (DRGR) system used by HUD.

• Experience overseeing complex projects across workgroups and agencies with multiple priorities and deadlines. Ability to organize work, set priorities, determine resource requirements, set short and long-term goals, and ensure timeliness of outcomes.

• Experience in urban planning preferred, ideally with a focus on housing, zoning, land use, and/or the development review process—all of which will be a focus of the grant activities to advance affordable housing. Experience with performance evaluation, monitoring, documentation and grant reporting to ensure targeted outcomes around housing goals are met.

• Experience with stakeholder engagement, and the ability to lead public meetings as required by the grant and support additional engagement associated to each activity.

• Strong communication skills working across project teams, with HUD, and external stakeholders.

• Experience reviewing and analyzing financial data, budgets, and grant expenditures.

• Ability to troubleshoot grant administration issues and work collaboratively with grantees and other stakeholders to resolve challenges.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Education Requirement: Bachelor's Degree in a related field based on a specific position(s).

• Experience Requirement: Five (5) years’ experience performing full performance professional level duties within a specialized, functional area. (This does not include clerical experience.)

• Education/Experience Equivalency:  One (1) year of the appropriate type and level of experience may be substituted for each required year of post high school education. Additional appropriate education may be substituted for the minimum experience requirements.

Application Deadline

To be considered for this position, you must include the following on your job application (upload the attachment(s) to the Resume/CV section on the My Experience tab):

• Cover Letter

• Work Sample (where you are a primary author of the content)

Please submit your application as soon as possible and no later than January 26th, 2025, at midnight to ensure consideration.