Development Advisor

3 weeks ago

Guelph, Canada The City of Guelph Full time

About Our Organization:
When you join the City of Guelph, you join a team of 2000 full and part-time employees who deliver services the community relies on every day. Together, we are bringing to life Guelph’s vision of an inclusive, connected, and prosperous city where we look after each other and our environment.

As a regional top employer, the City of Guelph values its employees and offers competitive salaries, excellent benefit packages, opportunities for professional development, a healthy work-life balance, and many roles with flexible work options. Our corporate values are integrity, service, inclusion, wellness, and learning. Guelph is consistently ranked as one of the best places in Canada to live, work, and play—all good reasons to consider a career in this beautiful city.

Job Summary:
Resumes are being accepted for the position of

In addition to providing leadership and strategic direction for the implementation of the City’s housing supply to address the housing crisis, the Development Advisor will be responsible for working with a wide variety of community stakeholders to develop, design, and implement policies, processes and programs that drive positive changes to increase the housing supply. This role presents a legacy and leadership opportunity to have a positive impact on the health of the City’s housing sector.

**Your role**
- Leads strategic engagement of the affordable housing sector (broadly defined) in the community, including, but not limited to non-profit, supportive and transitional housing providers, the philanthropic sector, land use planners, property developers, rental housing owners, and affordable homeownership proponents
- Prepares RFP’s and makes formal recommendations for the selection of consulting support while ensuring corporate purchasing guidelines are followed for tenders, contracts, RFP/RFQs
- Responsible to directly oversee external consultants.
- Reports both internally and externally on progress of affordable housing and housing starts.
- Provides leadership and collaboration to work cross-departmentally with senior management, City staff and key community stakeholders to incorporate recommendations to Council on strategies and implementation approaches on delivering best possible housing outcomes, with respect to the City’s Affordable Housing Strategy
- Provides senior level policy support to the department to enable informed decision making on housing deliverables and to provide context for planning and resource deployment.
- Pro-actively builds and maintains positive relationships with key stakeholders and develops options for implementing innovative strategies by forming and enhancing networks and collaborations with community partners, national housing experts, business leaders, appropriate provincial and federal agencies, and other levels of government
- Provides leadership, visioning, and strategic direction responsible for working with a wide variety of community stakeholders to develop, design, and implement policies, processes and programs that drive positive changes along the affordable housing continuum.
- Provides expertise that will meet future local needs and the provincial housing targets.
- Makes recommendations related to resourcing to support community and housing, as required.
- Capital and operating budget responsibility including monitoring budget variances and complying with variance reporting requirements, as well as risk assessment.
- Performs other duties as assigned which are directly related to the responsibilities of the position.

**Qualifications**
- Excellent knowledge of, and relationships with, community stakeholders related to affordable housing
- Negotiation, collaboration and conflict resolution skills with the ability to analyse problems, identify alternatives and make recommendations.
- Highly developed analytical and business planning skills with a proven track record for long-term visioning and big picture thinking
- Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to effectively communicate with elected officials, government departments, all levels of management, staff and the general public.
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of statutes, regulations, codes and by-laws affecting affordable housing in the City.
- Knowledge of policy frameworks, research methods and data analysis, consultation techniques and program planning and program evaluation models including the knowledge of best practices
- An understanding of land use planning processes and experience with housing, housing targets, affordable housing polices and processes
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a larger multi-disciplinary, inter-departmental team and proven ability manage, co-ordinate and track diverse project-based teams
- Experience working in land development, not-for-profit housing, and other community development initiatives.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple assignments, set prio

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