Job Opportunity - Project Manager

POSITION SPECIFICATION

POSITION TITLE: Project Manager

DEPARTMENT: Project Management Division

REPORTING TO: Director

LOCATION: Washington, D.C

COMPANY: Quadel Consulting Corporation (www.quadel.com)

Since 1975, Quadel Consulting has grown to be an industry leader providing direct management, consulting, and training services to the affordable housing industry.

Quadel is a leading national expert in the public housing, housing choice voucher, HUD-subsidized multifamily, and tax credit programs. Quadel blends private-sector productivity, quality, and management principles with public and non-profit social welfare goals. We have a reputation for real-world practicality, hardworking thoroughness, and thoughtfully tailored solutions. Quadel has several thousand clients, including local public housing agencies, state agencies, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, private owners, managers and developers of assisted housing.

SCOPE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Managers manage contract work by serving as monitors/consultants to the operational workforce. They work with other team members to ensure high-quality performance in, and timely completion of, all business area activities including technical assistance and consulting, direct program management, contract administration, training, marketing, research, and other projects.

• Manages contract work. Assembles teams and assigns tasks to ensure timely and quality performance. Coordinates completion of work with client. Oversees performance of staff on specific contract work.
• Provides oversight for discreet projects/activities as part of a larger client contract or business activity. This may include coordinating with team members, overseeing the work of subcontractors, consultants, and trainers, or working with vendors or other service providers.
• Uses technical knowledge and skills to coordinate and/or participate in data collection and analysis activities; file, document, and quality control reviews; administration of surveys; and development of reports, tracking systems, or other work products.
• Provides substantive, technical input in the preparation of contract deliverables or other business products, including assessment and other management reports, training materials, policies and procedures manuals, and funding applications. Responsible for the development, organization and editing of work products.
• Serves as a technical resource to clients, staff, team members, and other Quadel staff
• Ensures that work products comply with changes in rules, regulations, etc.

SKILLS / COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding environment.
• Ability to think creatively.
• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a multi-vendor environment.
• Ability to direct, coordinate and monitor the work of others to insure timely delivery of quality products.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to direct multiple projects and effectively manage resources.
• Ability to build and maintain effective client and employee relationships.
• Excellent computer skills especially Word and Excel.
• Flexible to travel up to 50% of the time

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree required. (Master’s degree preferred)
• Five years experience in the management or administration of public housing, rental assistance or other related programs.
• Significant experience in the design, development or provision of training and/or technical assistance, consulting, or direct management of affordable housing
• Knowledge in closely related public programs
• Skill in supervision of profession and technical staff.

INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD SUBMIT RESUME TOO: DCONLON@JOBPLEX.COM

The House Financial Service Committee recommends HOPE VI Increase to $800 Million Annually

Housing aid hike proposed

Friday, September 28, 2007

By Jo-Ann.moriarty Newhouse

jo-ann.moriarty@newhouse.com

WASHINGTON - The House Financial Service Committee is recommending that the federal funding for the Hope VI program, which the Bush administration sought to kill, be increased from $99 million to $800 million annually, giving cities such as Holyoke greater chances to rebuild neighborhoods fallen to poverty into development that brings mixed incomes into the same section of the city.

But the language voted out of committee does not establish the actual funding for the program.

That task is done by the House Appropriations Committee, of which U.S. Rep. John W. Olver, D-Amherst, is a member and chairman of the subcommittee on transportation, housing and urban development.

Olver was able to pull together an additional $21 million for the Hope VI program, started by the Clinton administration to tear down decaying housing projects and build developments that contained homeownership and rentals and families from different socio-economic strata.

"This is fantastic," Raymond P. Murphy Jr. said yesterday. He is the head of the Holyoke Housing Authority, who oversaw the upwards of $100 million in 2002 for the reconstruction of Jackson Parkway into a Hope VI project.

Holyoke is writing a grant application for $20 million to rebuild Lyman Terrace, which is a block from City Hall. Applications are due on Nov. 7.

Also included in the Hope VI bill is an amendment written by Olver that would require all federal housing projects be "green construction" or environmentally friendly to conserve energy by the technology used for heating and cooling as well as the materials used.

Movie star Brad Pitt is part of a consortium involved in a project to build 150 green homes on sites of houses destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Linda M Couch, the executive direction of the National Low Income Housing Coaltion, said that Olver stands out as a member of Congress for advancing the nation's progress to build with technology that considers the environment. more HERE

Sarasota Housing

State help for Sarasota housing

Tax credits will fund rebuilding of Janie Poe and other complexes

By CATHY ZOLLO
cathy.zollo@heraldtribune.com

A state award of tax credits Friday to the Sarasota Housing Authority will generate about $11 million to tear down and rebuild 400 dilapidated public housing apartments.

The tax credits from the Florida Housing Finance Corporation will be used to fund the first 86 units of housing that will eventually be an entirely revamped Janie Poe.

Janie Poe is one of four sites that will be razed and rebuilt by New Jersey-based Michaels Development Co. The two-story apartments, built in the 1970s, are wracked with problems.

For more than a decade, the Housing Authority has been trying to get the money to rebuild. But past efforts failed because of dwindling federal grants and poor management from a Housing Authority ultimately taken over by the federal government.

"Having been born and raised in Sarasota, having been raised as a teenager in public housing, having lived in public housing as a single mom, having gone through each of the HOPE VI (grant application) processes, I didn't think this day would ever come," said Carolyn Mason, a board member of Newtown Front Porch and former mayor of Sarasota. More HERE

The Easton Housing Authority HOPE VI - Moving Forward

The Easton Housing Authority will schedule meetings next month with Delaware Terrace residents to update the authority's HOPE VI revitalization project.

Authority Executive Director Gene Pambianchi said Tuesday that the details include deciding on the various types of homes for sale and rent, and environmental work on the 18-acre South Side property.

Demolition of the 250 units is estimated to begin in January, with construction of the 144 homes -- 96 for rent and 48 for sale -- beginning next summer. The authority is unsure if construction will be done all at once or in phases. More HERE

San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom on HOPE VI

Newsom Jabs Hope VI, As Oakland Embraces Hope VI

by Lynda Carson ( tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com )

Recently San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom took the wealthy on a tour of San Francisco's much needed public housing complexes in an effort to privatize and gentrify them. But, in a moment of brutal honesty Newsom and SFHA Director Gregg Fortner took a jab at HUD and the Hope VI program which ends up costing cities millions in lost housing funds to play the Hope VI demolition game, with no guarentees that a city will receive a Hope VI grant after demolishing their public housing units!

Newsom Jabs Hope VI program, As Oakland Embraces Hope VI

HUD's Larry Bush confirms that the Oakland Housing Authority is about to apply for a Hope VI grant for Tassafaronga Village public housing complex

By Lynda Carson

Mayor Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Housing Authority Director Gregg Fortner recently took a jab at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Hope VI program for costing cities millions in lost housing funds to play the Hope VI demolition game. Meanwhile the Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) is spending millions in an attempt to hook a Hope VI grant by using much needed funds being grabbed from it's Section 8 and public housing funds.

On August 29, 2007 the Chronicle reports, "Newsom and Fortner both have said they'd rather spend the $200,000 it costs to prepare a (Hope VI) grant application on improving developments immediately. The mayor added that recent federal budget cuts have depleted the pot of money once available under Hope VI, which was begun under President Bill Clinton."

Meanwhile, the Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) is moving full steam ahead and spending millions in much needed housing funds from local and federal sources in an effort to demolish and privatize it's Tassafaronga Village public housing complex.

Despite being turned down twice by HUD (Hope VI proposals) in their attempts to demolish Tassafaronga Village and privatize it, as recently as 1991 the OHA spent $7.4 million to remodel the 87 unit complex which then was enough money to buy a home for each of the families residing there according to a report.

According to a June 14, 1991 article in the Daily News of Los Angeles , "Money spent to remodel a housing project in Oakland could have bought a home for each family in the 87-unit structure, according to a published report that claims federal housing funds are "squandered" in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Tassafaronga Village housing complex that will reopen in a few weeks was completed nearly three years late and, at $7.4 million, was double the estimated cost."

As recent as February 15, 2007 the City of Oakland sued the OHA and accused it of being a slumlord, and according to City Attorney John Russo the OHA has been spending millions on buying land for it's Hope VI ventures rather than spending the money to maintain it's public housing properties.

According to City Attorney John Russo, "But the fact that the Authority continues to purchase new properties in a practice of “land banking” refutes their claim to have no money for the repairs and management of the existing sites. In fact, it is not a question of resources, but more a question of OHA priorities which clearly favors purchasing new properties with federal HOPE VI funds with non-profit developers over regular maintenance, management and repair of existing housing."

Further research and documentation shows that the Oakland Housing Authority is using local Section 8 Reserve Funds, and local Section 8 Administrative Reserve Funds as a huge slush fund, for it's notorious Hope Vl proposal for Tassafaronga Village.

Oakland continues to spend millions in attracting another Hope VI proposal for Tassafaronga Village, while it's low-income tenants suffer. Read More HERE

Three HOPE VI housing developments are set to open

Source: Frederick Newspost.com

Three HOPE VI housing developments are set to open within the next two months, with work to begin on a fourth by the end of the year and a fifth next spring.

Sixty apartments in the Hillcrest neighborhood and 23 senior apartments at Catoctin Manor on Motter Avenue should be available by mid-October, said Kevin Lollar, development director for the Housing Authority of the City of Frederick. Residents should be moving in by the start of November.

Friday morning, workers at Catoctin Manor were finishing the building's first floor, including the entryway and common areas.

Eight houses the authority is redeveloping in the Sagner neighborhood should be ready for occupants in mid-November, he said.

HOPE VI is a federal program to replace low-income housing projects with houses and apartments that people with varied incomes can afford.

In Frederick, the housing authority is replacing the Hanson-Taney complexes on North Bentz Street, which it demolished in 2006, with developments around the city.

When the authority tore down the old complexes it had to relocate slightly more than 100 families, said Teresa Justice, the authority's executive director. Roughly 75 of them might return to the new HOPE VI developments.

Half the Hillcrest apartments and 10 Catoctin Manor apartments have been leased, Lollar said.

As residents move in at Hillcrest and Catoctin Manor, work should start on laying new streets at the old Hanson-Taney site, he said. Grading on the site should start in November.

A street in the new development will be named for Lord Nickens, first president of Frederick's NAACP, Lollar said.

Plans call for 55 homes for purchase and 42 rental units at that site, with a mix of market-rate and affordable housing properties for sale, and affordable and public housing apartments.

The City of Frederick has begun demolition on the site of Rogers Homes at South Carroll and East South streets, Lollar said. Construction of that development should be under way by the spring.

Rogers Homes is slated for 32 rental apartments and four units to be purchased by residents.

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