CDBG-DR Housing Subject Matter Expert

Tidal Basin, a Michael Baker company, is seeking a CDBG-DR Housing Subject Matter Expert who serves as a senior technical authority for the design, implementation, oversight, and improvement of owner-occupied housing rehabilitation, reconstruction, replacement, reimbursement, elevation, mitigation, and related disaster recovery programs. The position supports federal, state, territorial, tribal, and local government clients throughout grant startup, production, monitoring, corrective action, and closeout.

The successful candidate will translate HUD and grantee requirements into operationally workable, equitable, controlled, and audit-defensible housing programs; resolve complex or high-risk matters; establish standards; and coordinate multidisciplinary housing, policy, environmental, construction, finance, legal, technology, and quality resources.

• Advise clients on homeowner recovery strategy, program architecture, delivery models, organizational design, staffing, governance, implementation sequencing, and risk.
• Design or review rehabilitation, reconstruction, replacement, reimbursement, elevation, mitigation, manufactured housing, and related housing program models.
• Develop and review policies, procedures, manuals, forms, agreements, notices, checklists, decision tools, operating controls, quality plans, and training materials.
• Provide technical direction on eligibility, national objective, income, ownership, occupancy, primary residence, disaster impact, unmet need, duplication of benefits, award methodology, caps, incentives, exceptions, and recapture.
• Integrate environmental review, floodplain and wetlands requirements, lead-based paint, accessibility, fair housing, insurance, elevation, mitigation, inspections, construction standards, and closeout requirements into program operations.
• Establish applicant agreements, escrow and payment controls, contractor requirements, progress and final inspection protocols, change management, warranty, and recordkeeping expectations.
• Resolve complex, novel, disputed, or high-risk cases and prepare defensible issue papers, decision memoranda, policy interpretations, and executive recommendations.
• Define decision authority, escalation criteria, maker-checker controls, approval thresholds, exception procedures, sampling, quality standards, and segregation of duties.
• Develop caseload, throughput, cycle-time, aging, first-pass quality, rework, applicant contact, construction, expenditure, and closeout performance standards that balance speed, accuracy, fairness, and compliance.
• Guide case management and grants system requirements, business rules, role-based access, data conversion, user acceptance testing, reporting, document controls, and audit trail design.
• Support HUD coordination, monitoring, audits, appeals, complaints, investigations, findings responses, corrective action plans, records requests, and grant closeout.
• Lead technical reviews, calibration, training, and mentoring for housing specialists, case managers, eligibility personnel, reviewers, supervisors, and managers.
• Coordinate with policy, legal, environmental, civil rights, construction, inspections, finance, compliance, data, systems, communications, and program leadership.
• Support proposals, capture strategy, client presentations, staffing models, technical approaches, and thought leadership related to housing recovery.
• Perform other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned to meet project, client, and organizational needs.