Senior Community Manager - Affordable Housing

What You'll Actually Do

This role sits at the intersection of compliance, operations, and resident services on an affordable housing property in Saint Paul. The day-to-day is dense. You're tracking delinquency, managing recertifications, coordinating with the compliance department on regulatory responses, and keeping your maintenance program tight enough to pass a REAC inspection without scrambling. When a Management and Occupancy Review lands on the calendar, you're the one who owns the preparation.

Compliance is a core function here, not a side task. HUD 4350.3 is your operating manual. You'll handle annual and interim recertifications, monitor EIV activity, and stay current on LIHTC requirements through TCS. When residents fall out of compliance with lease or program requirements, you're coordinating intervention strategies with your Regional Manager rather than waiting for a problem to escalate into litigation.

On the financial side, you're attending monthly budget meetings, watching bad-debt write-offs, and pursuing delinquencies through legal channels when necessary. You're also the point person for vendor coordination, unit inspections, and bi-annual walk-throughs with the Building Superintendent. Construction updates, violation avoidance, and resident access during renovation cycles all run through you.

What You Bring

• At least three years of management experience that includes direct team supervision (property management experience in affordable housing is the target profile)
• COS or CPO certification, active and current
• TCS certification for tax credit compliance
• Hands-on EIV experience and comfort in Yardi
• Working knowledge of HUD regulations, Fair Housing, ADA, and FCRA
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and the ability to manage multiple compliance deadlines simultaneously
• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required

The Operational Reality

Affordable housing management at this level requires a specific kind of attention. Recertification errors, missed MOR prep, or delinquency that goes unmanaged long enough to hit bad-debt don't just affect NOI, they affect residents and regulatory standing. The candidates who perform well in roles like this tend to be comfortable owning compliance outcomes end-to-end, not just flagging issues upward. If you've managed a HUD or LIHTC property through a REAC cycle or an MOR and came out clean, that experience translates directly here.

Fairstead operates as an integrated platform across development, construction, and property management, which means a Senior Community Manager here has more visibility into capital projects and construction coordination than you'd typically find in a third-party management environment. The salary range for this position is $68,000 to $70,000, with a benefits package that includes employer-contributed medical and dental through United Healthcare, a company-matched 401(k), and 15 days of PTO plus 12 paid holidays.