Community Development Specialist

The Southeast Nebraska Development District (“SENDD”), in Lincoln, Nebraska, is seeking to hire an additional full-time Community Development Specialist for its Lincoln, Nebraska location, previously listed in Auburn.

SENDD is a dynamic community and economic development organization that serves the people of southeast Nebraska. The organization offers great benefits and perks, awesome coworkers, and a busy, but fun, work environment.

The Community Development (CD) Specialist is part of a team that helps find solutions for the challenges facing rural towns and villages. CD Specialists are asked to do the following:

1. Grant writing, grant administration, grant compliance, and project management of local, state, and federally funded community, housing, and economic development programs and projects in the SENDD District.
2. Facilitate strategic planning, action planning, and leadership development processes for local municipalities and counties in the SENDD District.
3. Provide oversight and direction to engineering and architectural consultants during design, bidding, and construction management phases of projects to meet federal and state compliance of projects.
4. Community and regional planning activities, including assistance in the development of a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for a 16-county region including citizen participation processes, data collection, research, and community inventories.
5. Establish rapport and excellent working relationships with SENDD membership, partnering organizations, and agencies to further the mission of SENDD.
6. Facilitate conversations between locally-elected officials and state and federal agencies.
7. Performing other duties as assigned by the Director of Development Services.

The ideal candidate is someone with initiative, who is detail-oriented, dependable, works well with others, and possesses strong problem-solving skills.

For a small organization, SENDD offers great benefits, such as 100% company-paid health insurance, a flexible Monday to Friday work week, aggressive paid time off, and more.

Southeast Nebraska Development District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.