About this role
Position Title: Executive Operations Manager
Department: Multifamily Financing
Join our Team! At IHDA we strive to create and maintain a work environment that promotes diversity, recognition and inclusion. IHDA is committed to hiring and investing in individuals of diverse talents and backgrounds to ensure a range of perspectives and experiences inform and guide our work of financing affordable housing in the state of Illinois.
Who we are: The Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) is one of the Nation’s preeminent Housing Finance Agencies and one of the State’s ten largest financial institutions. Our mission is to finance the creation and preservation of affordable housing across the state. IHDA oversees more than 20 federal and state programs on behalf of the state of Illinois and serves as one of the state’s primary resources for housing policy and program administration. For over 50 years, IHDA has led the state in financing and supporting affordable housing.
Summary: This position is housed within the Multifamily Financing department. The position is responsible for the execution of administrative functions and requires a high degree of critical support, skills, initiative, reliability, follow through and confidentiality to the department and its leadership. Must have the ability to rapidly acquire knowledge of the department and Authority program areas. Establishes and implements departmental strategic direction – guiding structure, operations, culture – in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
Essential Functions:
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Education and Experience Requirements:
- Education: A bachelor’s degree required. Experience may be substituted for education at the discretion of the Multifamily Financing department.
- Experience: At least 5 years’ relevant experience. Experience in communications, event planning, project management, operations, and/or administration desired. Expertise in Microsoft Office required including Outlook, MSWord, PowerPoint, and Excel. Familiarity with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Monday.com. Strong verbal and written communication skills including writing, proofing, and editing necessary. Demonstrated capacity to develop visuals including charts, graphs, etc. required. Strong data entry skills including accuracy, completeness, and speed necessary. Testing of typing and Excel proficiency required along with a prompted writing sample that must be deemed satisfactory at the discretion of the Multifamily Financing department.
What We Offer:
- Paid time off, plus paid holidays
- Currently in a hybrid work arrangement, but candidates must reside in Illinois at time of hire.
- Medical/dental/vision/life insurance plans
- Short/long term disability
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flex spending
- 401K plan – immediate vesting
- IHDA employees may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs.
- Salary range: $81,117-$101,397
Must be a resident of Illinois or willing to relocate. Flexible scheduling is available, upon completion of a six-month probationary period.
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Other facts
About Illinois Housing Development
The Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) finances the creation and preservation of affordable housing in Illinois.
IHDA was created by the state legislature in 1967 as a self-supporting agency to finance affordable housing across Illinois. IHDA does not use taxpayer dollars to sustain its operations, although it does administer publicly funded programs on behalf of the state. Since its creation, IHDA has provided more than $15 billion to finance a quarter million affordable homes.
IHDA accomplishes its mission through a number of funding sources including the Illinois Affordable Housing Trust Fund, Illinois Affordable Housing Tax Credits, the allocation of federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and HOME Investment Partnership funds. IHDA is also a bonding authority and independently sells bonds, based on our strong credit rating of A1/AA-/AA- from Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings respectively.
We partner with lenders, developers, local government, nonprofits, community groups and others to deliver low-cost financing programs. We provide financial assistance to low- and moderate-income homebuyers and homeowners, offer resources to developers who build or preserve affordable and mixed-income rental housing and provide oversight for hundreds of affordable rental communities across the state.
What you'll do
- The Executive Operations Manager is responsible for executing administrative functions within the Multifamily Financing department, requiring critical support and confidentiality. This role involves establishing departmental strategic direction and coordinating communications and events.
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