Social Impact Manager
JBG SMITH has partnered with the Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) to launch an innovative housing and community building initiative designed to preserve affordable housing in the DC region and promote economic mobility among low and moderate-income households. Through the initiative, WHC will acquire multifamily properties in high opportunity neighborhoods and rent them to a racially and ethnically diverse, mixed-income population. JBG SMITH will provide property management services at properties in the WHC portfolio.
Joining this JBG SMITH/WHC housing initiative will provide you with the opportunity to be part of a cutting-edge start-up social impact venture and allow you to develop your career at JBG SMITH, which is a large and growing company that recognizes and rewards exceptional performance and focuses on creating a positive impact on every community we touch.
What You Will Do
The Social Impact Manager is responsible for helping to advance the social impact strategy to enable all residents to achieve housing stability and economic mobility at WHC properties. While all team members will work collaboratively to help achieve this goal, the Social Impact Manager will have the responsibility to help support and hold colleagues and partners accountable to this vision of change. The Social Impact Manager will serve as a lead initiator, cheerleader, role model and documenter of the emergent social impact strategy.
As a Social Impact Manager, your primary responsibilities include:
- Actively engaging residents, curating moments when they can have leadership in community life, solve problems, and support other residents.
- Helping to design and implement community building activities to bring residents together around shared concerns and interests and create a sense of belonging, agency and mutual support in the housing community
- Developing an in-depth knowledge of local resources and meeting with residents individually to understand their needs and aspirations so that we can offer to connect them with resources and support that is tailored to their personal goals.
- Along with other members of the JBG SMITH team, quickly responding to resident ideas and requests, building resident capacity to solve problems.
- Along with other members of JBG SMITH and WHC team, developing strategies to meet our social impact goals
Experience:
- Community building, property management, placemaking, social services and/or another helping profession that involves promoting individual and community social impact
- Working in multi-racial and multi-cultural teams
- Relationship building with people from different socio-economic backgrounds
- Creating innovative programs and strategies
- Event planning and execution
- Experience with anti-racism training preferred
- Experience with personal growth/leadership development training preferred
- Direct experience with the challenges of economic instability and deprivation