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Senior Director – Technical Assistance & Innovation
Habitat for Humanity International. Design, coordinate, deliver, quality-assure, and performance-manage all technical assistance delivered through the Impact & Innovation Hub .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in designing and delivering technical assistance programs that enhance housing finance operations, while effectively managing multi-country portfolios and building relationships with financial institutions across diverse cultures.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Technical Assistance Program DesignCapacity-Building SupportFinancial Institution Relationship ManagementMulti-Country Portfolio ManagementHousing Finance Innovation
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Hard Skills
Institutional Capacity AssessmentBudgetingWork PlanningQuality AssurancePerformance ImprovementProduct DevelopmentRisk ManagementMonitoring and EvaluationCollaboration FacilitationStrategy Development
Soft Skills
Cross-Cultural Relationship BuildingCommunication
Industry Keywords
Housing FinanceEmerging MarketsTechnical AssistanceCapacity BuildingInternational DevelopmentPublic PolicyFinancial InstitutionsComplianceStakeholder ReportingInnovation Pilots
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design, coordinate, deliver, quality-assure, and performance-manage all technical assistance delivered through the Impact & Innovation Hub
- Ensure MicroBuild Fund 2 investees’ capacity-building needs are met through services such as housing readiness assessments and product development support
- Serve as the operational bridge between the Hub and the Housing Finance Systems team within Habitat’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter
- Ensure technical assistance contributes to stronger institutional performance, Fund objectives, and MicroBuild Initiative commitments
- Oversee and coordinate approximately 15–30 technical assistance engagements annually
- Manage the technical assistance portfolio, annual workplan, budgets, timelines, risks, resources, and performance expectations
- Develop and implement technical assistance strategy and tools
- Build and manage consultant, advisor, and implementation-partner networks
- Coordinate internal and external technical resources and oversee consultant deliverables
- Support scopes of work, procurement, contracting, budgeting, and resource planning
- Transfer lessons learned into TCIS programs, tools, and housing finance initiatives
- Drive continuous improvement through field experience, evidence, feedback, and lessons learned
- Contribute to country housing finance analyses, learning products, case studies, toolkits, presentations, and thought leadership
- Establish and monitor technical assistance performance indicators with the Research and Learning Manager
- Track institutional, portfolio-level, and market-level outcomes
- Evaluate effectiveness, scalability, and impact of technical assistance and innovation interventions
- Contribute to annual, Fund, Board, stakeholder, and other reporting
- Design and implement housing finance innovation pilots across institutions and geographies
- Co-create solutions with TCIS, financial institutions, external partners, and Habitat stakeholders
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, International Development, Public Policy, Housing, or a related field required
- Minimum 12 years of progressively responsible experience providing technical assistance and capacity-building support to financial institutions in emerging and developing markets
- Expertise in assessing institutional capacity
- Experience designing and delivering technical assistance programs that strengthen housing finance and lending operations
- Experience designing new products
- Experience building relationships with financial institution partners across regions
- Experience working in developing and emerging economies
- Ability to build and manage relationships across cultures
- Track record managing multi-country technical assistance portfolios, including strategy development, work planning, budgeting, implementation oversight, quality assurance, and performance improvement
- Experience assessing organizational capacity, identifying performance gaps, and implementing operational, financial, product, and risk management improvements with financial institutions
- Experience facilitating collaboration across program, finance, legal, compliance, monitoring and evaluation, MEARL, and communications teams
Benefits
Comp & perks- Vacation leave
- Sick leave
- Personal days
- Health insurance options
- Retirement plan contributions
- Life insurance
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Up to 40% international travel