Extern-Manager, Strategy & Special Projects

Strategy & Special Projects Manager

About the Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) :

Our mission is to partner with low-income and working people to build economic and racial equity. We do this by confronting economic abuse and investing in community wealth. We use an ever-evolving set of legal, economic and advocacy tools to challenge and dismantle unjust systems, building quickly towards a world where all people have what they need to live and thrive.

The Community Economic Defense Project (CEDP) is a Colorado-based nonprofit. Launched in 2020 as the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project, our organization was formed to keep our neighbors housed during the pandemic. Working with clients, we built a deeply integrative approach to eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness prevention that centers the legal and financial needs of housing-insecure families and uses a variety of tools to keep them housed.

Our team now serves more than 1,000 people per month, bringing together housing lawyers, economists, data analysts, policy-experts, organizers, and technologists to serve our clients. We have served more than 60,000 low-income Coloradans across 58 counties, distributing over $230 million in emergency assistance. We have also contributed to the passage of major legislation to prevent eviction, stop economic abuse, and make credit and life-saving medication cheaper. CEDP's model has been cited as a best practice by The White House, HUD, the Urban Institute, and in the media.

Building on our work to stop evictions, CEDP has further expanded its integrated services model to include disaster response, predatory towing, debt collection, benefit access & navigation, long-term rental assistance, and homelessness response. Similar to CEDP's work on rental housing, these efforts offer a continuum of care that includes navigation and advisory services, targeted payments, legal support, and the ability to participate in advocacy.

More about the role : We are seeking a Strategy & Special Projects Manager to help shape CEDP's overall strategy and programs. In this role, your focus will be on short-term, high-impact strategy and operations projects with a bias toward building new programs and discovering, sizing, and implementing new revenue opportunities for CEDP. You will manage, plan, and execute key initiatives that align with the organization's broader mission to build economic and racial justice. Examples of previous projects led by this role : research, design, and implementation of a new pilot program; drafting of a major federal grant application and managing grant progress across teams; and supporting advocacy campaigns and creating advocacy materials / research, including data analysis on the impact of rental assistance funds. These projects will leverage analytical and technology skills, as well as interpersonal and presentation skills.

You will be a close collaborator with the leadership team and attend leadership meetings where you will learn first-hand how to build, run, and scale a social impact start-up. You will work closely with the CEOs, VP of Program Operations, Chief of Staff, and others on revenue opportunities, operations, and programs. Both CEDP CEOs are former management consultants; they understand how to offer externs the opportunity to achieve maximum impact, and will invest heavily in the extern's professional development.

Responsibilities :

• New Ventures Support (40%)

Develop and support the launch of new, innovative programs that focus on economic justice, housing, and community wealth-building for low-income and working people

Drive business development strategies and implementation plans for key strategic projects for CEDP, including conducting market research, sizing, and forecasting

Conduct policy analysis to inform legislative efforts, including both current state assessments and prospective impact forecasting

Contribute directly to CEDP's policymaking agenda by researching and providing narrative input on proposed bills

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