The Center for Community Progress seeks an Associate Director of National Leadership & Education for their office in either Washington, DC or Flint, Michigan.
The mission of Center for Community Progress is to foster strong, equitable communities where vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties are transformed into assets for neighbors and neighborhoods. Founded in 2010, Community Progress is the leading national, nonprofit resource for urban, suburban, and rural communities seeking to address the full cycle of property revitalization. The organization fulfills its mission by nurturing strong leadership and supporting systemic reforms. Community Progress works to ensure that public, private, and community leaders have the knowledge and capacity to create and sustain change. It also works to ensure that all communities have the policies, tools, and resources they need to support the effective, equitable reuse of vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties. More information is available at www.communityprogress.net.
The Associate Director will assist the Director of National Leadership and Education in shaping and implementing the organization’s work educating and connecting public, private, and community leaders who work tirelessly to tackle the challenges of vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties. National Leadership and Education oversees place-based trainings, online education, peer-to-peer learning, the Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties (VAD) Training Academy, and the national Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference. Through these and other educational opportunities, we equip leaders with critical skillsets and help them to stay abreast of new trends and best practices in the field. More information about the National Leadership and Education program is available here.
The Center for Community Progress provides a highly competitive salary, commensurate with experience, and excellent employee benefits package.
Photo of Washington DC (seen from Arlington, Virginia) by Storm Cunningham.
Apply by: 5:00 pm EDT, July 6, 2018,