ORGANIZATION: Purpose Built Communities
ROLE: Vice President, Policy
LOCATION: Washington, D.C. or Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)
TRAVEL EXPECTATIONS: 50% of time
SALARY: $128,000-$160,000
ABOUT PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES
Purpose Built Communities (“Purpose Built”) is an incubator, convener, and catalyst for social change at the neighborhood level. Purpose Built is a philanthropically-funded nonprofit organization that partners with local leaders–its Network Members–to design, direct, and accelerate neighborhood transformation initiatives across the United States so residents can experience greater racial equity, improved health outcomes, and increased upward mobility.
Purpose Built provides pro-bono guidance, coaching, and support to these local leaders, their staff, and stakeholders in implementing and growing a holistic model of revitalization in their neighborhoods. Together with Purpose Built’s Network Members and strategic partners, Purpose Built believes every neighborhood should have affordable, high-quality mixed income housing, excellent schools that keep student success in life and in the classroom central, inclusive spaces that nurture and enrich residents’ physical and mental health and foster a sense of belonging, and a thriving commercial core that keeps the neighborhood economically vibrant. The throughline is uplifting the legacy and supporting the vision of the people who have long called that neighborhood home.
Purpose Built has recently undertaken a series of programmatic updates, including refining its Model for impact and completing our strategic planning process. These initiatives provide a clarifying and unifying story about Purpose Built’s ethos and values system as a social change organization.
Purpose Built supports 26 Network Members with pro-bono services, including technical assistance, a robust Community of Practice, racial equity programming, policy support, fundraising, and more. As Purpose Built continues to evolve its Model and support structures, it is focusing on amplifying its value proposition, telling a collective story of Network impact and establishing its leadership in the field of place-based work.
ABOUT THE VICE PRESIDENT, POLICY ROLE
Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Strategy and Impact, the inaugural Vice President, Policy will develop, execute, and iterate the policy strategy for Purpose Built Communities (“Purpose Built”) and its Network at the national, state, and local levels. Purpose Built seeks a seasoned and committed government affairs professional with a deep understanding of federal and state-level policies influencing the four Purpose Built pillars: mixed-income housing, cradle-to-college education, community wellness, and economic vitality. Bringing with them a career of results, the Vice President, Policy will advocate, educate, and mobilize stakeholders, coalitions, and policymakers toward non-partisan policy change.
The goal of Purpose Built’s policy work will be to create the conditions and resources to support neighborhood revitalization within Purpose Built communities. The Vice President, Policy will build upon existing and create new coalitions for Purpose Built federally and for the Network Members locally with internal and external stakeholders, government officials, and partners to drive effective policy solutions that advance all aspects of resident-centered holistic neighborhood revitalization.
TO APPLY: Please submit an online application to Work Renewed. If you have any questions, contact the Work Renewed team at .
Purpose Built Communities is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender expression, military status, prior record of arrest or conviction, citizenship status, current employment status, or caregiver status.
