Senior Project Manager - Community Engagement

Senior Project Manager – Community Engagement (LCCHO)

Reports to: Director, Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity

Location: Hybrid – Litchfield County, CT-based

Status: Full-Time, Exempt

Salary: $80,000

About The Housing Collective

The Housing Collective (HC) is a statewide backbone organization working to end homelessness and ensure equitable access to safe, stable, and affordable housing across Connecticut. HC brings together cross-sector partners, data, and strategy to drive systems change and advance housing solutions through collaboration, research, policy, and community engagement.

HC operates several core initiatives, including the Opening Doors Initiative (ODI), the Centers for Housing Opportunity (CHO), and the Housing Innovation Lab (HIL). Together these initiatives support regional collaboration, strengthen housing systems, and build the capacity of communities and partners working toward housing stability and opportunity.

About the Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity

The Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity (LCCHO) is a regional collaborative focused on advancing housing affordability in Litchfield County. LCCHO began as a partnership among The Housing Collective, Foundation for Community Health, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Northwest CT Community Foundation, LISC Connecticut, and Partnership for Strong Communities.

LCCHO’s mission is to facilitate a coordinated regional response to address housing affordability in Litchfield County by aligning and delivering critical resources, data, and technical assistance to municipalities and nonprofit housing organizations. LCCHO supports local housing organizations throughout Litchfield County as they work to create housing options that are affordable in their communities. Many of these local organizations are volunteer-led and operate without staff. LCCHO provides day-to-day project management support, technical assistance related to financing and grant applications, seed funding, and community engagement tools, while also creating opportunities for collaboration and information sharing across the region.

Role Overview

The Senior Project Manager – Community Engagement plays a key role in advancing LCCHO’s work to build support for the production and preservation of safe, affordable housing throughout Litchfield County. Working closely with the LCCHO Director, local housing organizations, regional partners, and community stakeholders, this role helps translate strategy into action through strong community engagement, public-facing collaboration, coalition support, and disciplined project management.

This position is especially focused on helping shape and implement community engagement and organizing efforts in Litchfield County, including community conversations, advocacy, training, convenings, and relationship-building that support local and regional housing solutions. The Senior Project Manager also partners with the LCCHO Director to advance broader priorities, including maintaining a strong coalition of regional partners, facilitating access to research and data to inform local decision-making, and centering the voices of residents with lived experience in housing advocacy efforts.

Key Responsibilities

Community Engagement and Regional Housing Collaboration

• Lead LCCHO’s efforts to build broad-based support for the production and preservation of safe, affordable housing throughout Litchfield County.
• Help shape and implement LCCHO’s community engagement strategies in partnership with local volunteer-led housing organizations.
• Engage with partner organizations, community, business, civic, and other constituencies, including residents with lived experience of housing instability.
• Support advocacy, training, and community-facing activities that advance local and regional housing goals.
• Represent LCCHO at public meetings, community events, and other external forums.
• Effectively communicate LCCHO’s mission, priorities, and objectives to elected officials and staff, cross-sector partners, housing organizations, community leaders, and residents.

Convening, Communications, and Public-Facing Work

• Plan for and facilitate ongoing monthly Outreach and Communications meetings with local housing organization volunteers and partners.
• Lead planning and implementation for the annual Litchfield County Housing Affordability Summit.
• Draft and prepare materials such as agendas, presentation decks, follow-up communications, talking points, partner briefs, and letters of support.
• Help ensure that community engagement work is well-organized, clearly communicated, and aligned with LCCHO’s broader goals and messaging.

Coalition Support, Strategy, and Accountability

• Partner with the LCCHO Director to support key regional initiatives and strengthen coalition-based work across Litchfield County.
• Help facilitate collaboration and information-sharing among municipalities, housing organizations, philanthropic partners, and other stakeholders.
• Track and report measurable outcomes related to community engagement and project activity.
• Support efforts to connect research, data, and community voice to local and regional housing strategy and decision-making.

How This Role Operates at The Housing Collective

At The Housing Collective, project managers are expected to bring structure, follow-through, and adaptability to complex, collaborative work. In addition to the content-specific responsibilities above, this role is responsible for helping ensure that work is well-planned, well-documented, and advanced in alignment with organizational priorities, values, and strategic goals.

This includes:

• Developing and maintaining work plans, timelines, deliverables, and project documentation for assigned bodies of work.
• Coordinating meetings, agendas, schedules, notes, and follow-up to support clear communication and accountability.
• Tracking assignments, decisions, and next steps to ensure progress and shared clarity across internal teams and external partners.
• Maintaining organized knowledge-management systems, materials, and reporting tools.
• Supporting transparency, collaboration, and consistency across projects and partners.
• Helping build and refine tools, templates, and workflows that strengthen HC’s internal infrastructure and collective impact work.
• Communicating project updates clearly and regularly to staff, leadership, and stakeholders as appropriate.
• Contributing to a culture of inclusion, curiosity, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• At least six years of community engagement, affordable housing development, housing policy, and/or communications experience.
• Experience working with and building the capacity of volunteer-led nonprofits is strongly preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to build and manage coalitions.
• Attention to detail and the ability to work individually, within a multidisciplinary team, and with a diverse set of external partners.
• Ability to multitask and work well under deadlines.
• Experience with Google Suite.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.

Medical, dental, and vision coverage (employer-paid and cost-shared options), HSA/FSA pre-tax savings, employer-paid life & long-term disability, EAP, plus voluntary benefits and employee discounts.