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From: Barbara Sard
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date: 6/1/0 14:30
Date: 12/21/00
Time: 11:24:40 AM
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Below is a posting for a Housing Policy Analyst job at the DC office of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorites. The person in this job works with me (I'm based in Boston) to carry out the Center's housing agenda. A successful applicant need not have substantial housing experience. Jeff Lubell, who has filled the job superbly for the last two years, has accepted a position with HUD as director of the policy development division of HUD's Office of Policy Development & Research. The Center's (and my) loss, but hopefully a gain for progressive housing policy.
Please circulate the announcement broadly. If you have any questions, please e-mail me at sard@gis.net or call me at 617-566-1154.
Job Announcement - Housing Policy Analyst
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a policy institute that works on national and state issues, is seeking a housing policy analyst. The Center has attained a national reputation for its unique capacity to blend rigorous, timely analyses with activities designed to enable policymakers in Washington and the states to make use of its work.
The Center's housing work focuses both on low-income housing policy at the federal, state and local levels and on the interaction of welfare reform with housing policy. The Center's work on low-income housing concentrates on improving and expanding the Section 8 voucher program and targeting housing resources to lower income families and those making the transition from welfare to work. At the intersection of housing policy and welfare reform, the Center has identified three primary areas of work: how the federal housing programs can help families on welfare become employed, the use of welfare program funds for housing assistance, and the interplay between policies in welfare programs and rent policies and work requirements in the federal housing programs.
Under the direction of the Center's Director of Housing Policy, the Housing Policy Analyst will have several primary areas of responsibility: preparing analyses on federal budget issues affecting low-income housing programs and sharing the Center's expertise on federal budget issues with national organizations working on low-income housing issues; writing policy analyses and strategy reports concerning federal or state and local policy choices; and providing technical assistance to federal, state, and local non-profit organizations and policymakers. The Housing Policy Analyst also may speak at and participate in various forums on low-income housing policy, with an emphasis on fostering an exchange of information and collaborative efforts between those in the housing field and those in the welfare field.
Candidates for this position should have at least two years of relevant experience, as well as excellent writing, analytic, and public speaking skills; a graduate degree is preferred. Candidates should be able to analyze complex program issues and explain those issues in simple terms for broad audiences. Additionally, applicants should demonstrate a working knowledge of low-income housing programs and how those programs operate at the local level. It is also important for candidates to have some familiarity with other means-tested programs and/or federal budget issues affecting housing programs. Quantitative skills are desirable.
Salary: Commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits, including two health insurance options, life and long-term disability insurance, retirement, flexible spending accounts and generous vacation, sick leave, and holiday schedules.
Please send a resume, with cover letter, to:
Housing Analyst Search Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 820 First St, NE, Suite 520 Washington, DC 20002
Applicants may e-mail their application to sard@gis.net
The Center is an equal opportunity employer, and as such, takes affirmative action to insure that discrimination does not occur on the basis of race, creed, color, age, sex, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, religious or political affiliation, disability, or any other classification considered discriminatory under applicable law. Resumes will be accepted until the position is filled.