Jobs & Opportunities
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Real progress in communities is the result of combining expertise, data, and, most importantly, the passion of people who care about the future of our neighborhoods.
Community Progress is always looking to connect with changemakers for full-time, part-time, and consulting opportunities. Please check back often for opportunities to work with us.
Job Opportunities
Senior Counsel
The Senior Counsel position is a unique opportunity for an experienced attorney to apply legal and policy expertise to advance community development across the country. While maintaining a limited in-house legal role, the Senior Counsel will primarily serve as a legal and policy advisor to local and state partners, as opposed to providing direct legal services.This position offers variety, flexibility, and national reach. The Senior Counsel will work across multiple legal and policy areas—such as code enforcement, property tax foreclosure, land banking, zoning, employment, or contract law.
The Senior Counsel must have a J.D. and a minimum of 10 years as a licensed attorney, including at least 5 years working in-house or closely with federal, state, or local government; a nonprofit; or in a closely related setting. They must also be a member currently in good standing of a state bar.
The salary range for this role is $131,000 – 149,000 commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Please review the full position description before applying.
Interested applicants must submit a cover letter, resume, and one writing sample which demonstrates your ability to concisely and clearly make complex or technical legal information accessible to a broad audience. Applications must be submitted via the form below by 5:00pm EST, Friday, June 20.
Associate Director, Technical Assistance
The Associate Director, Technical Assistance will lead small project teams to deliver expert technical assistance to local governments and land banks that supports neighborhood revitalization by addressing vacant properties. Whether leading or supporting technical assistance engagements, the Associate Director will work with communities that have been routinely devalued by the public and private sectors, resulting in large inventories of vacant properties. This role involves designing technical and legal solutions—as well as compelling narratives that support them.
Candidates should meet one of the following criteria:
- At least 8 years of professional experience in the public, nonprofit, or private sectors with a focus on community development or closely related field, in which 4 of those years involved a strong focus on vacant and abandoned properties or neighborhood revitalization in local government or a land bank; or
- At least 12 years of professional experience in community development fields—such as housing security, public health, environmental justice, resilience, or urban planning that intersected with VAD property challenges.
The salary range for this role is $110,000 – 125,000 commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Please review the full position description before applying.
Interested applicants must submit a resume, a cover letter that articulates your experience working with local government entities understanding of the issues Community Progress works on, and two writing samples that demonstrate your ability to clearly communicate complex topics to non-technical audiences. Applications must be submitted via the form below by 5:00pm EST, Friday, June 20.
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The Center for Community Progress is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage a work environment where people of all backgrounds are celebrated, accepted, and supported. As a part of our commitment to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, all employment decisions at Community Progress are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we operate and serve.