Career Opportunity: Ability Housing CEO
Ability Housing changes lives and communities around the state with high-quality, safe, and sustainable housing that preserves community. We develop, renovate, and manage multifamily housing that is affordable to low- and middle-income households. Our housing is paired with resident-focused services that empower tenants to improve their physical, financial, mental, and social health. Ability Housing can expertly handle every facet of multi-family development including project financing, development, community outreach, asset management, and property management. We flexibly collaborate with partners to find the right blend of services to meet a community’s needs. If you have deep experience in housing and believe that everyone should have a home, this may be a unique opportunity for you to make a lasting and significant impact.
Vision A society where housing is a right, not a privilege, and all individuals have safe, affordable housing in vibrant communities.
Mission To build flourishing communities where everyone has a home.
Our work is based upon the core beliefs that:
Everyone should have a home.
Working together creates opportunities and changes lives.
Challenging the status quo creates new ideas and innovative solutions.
Using data and evidence-based practices creates effective and lasting results.
The trust of the people and communities we serve must be earned every day.
The Role of the Chief Executive Officer
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the key leadership position within Ability Housing providing holistic leadership for the organizations’ triple bottom line: high-quality supportive housing for residents, organizational sustainability in a healthy workplace environment, and performance of the real estate portfolio. Key roles include but are not limited to:
Strategy
Works with board of directors and leadership team to develop and implement the agency’s strategy including considerations of sustainable quality, growth, risk, and stability
Consistently considers and evaluates projects, needs, and environmental changes that may occur five to ten years in the future
Develops and maintains contingency strategies to adjust operational activities when needed
Cultivates Key Relationships
Acts as the principal public relations officer, representing the organization, generating community awareness, and building collaborative stakeholder relationships
Cultivates and sustains strategic relationships with elected and administrative policy makers, major customers, governmental agencies, and financial entities
Strives for relationships to be collaborative and mutually beneficial first, but able to tactfully maintain mission-critical positions when needed
Cultivates relationships with major funders that focus on high-level, strategic, and long-term goals and issues
Coordinates with the fund development team and is personally involved with major funding requests
Operational Guidance and Accountability
Develops annual business plans with the agency’s leadership team to ensure efficient, sustainable and high-quality delivery of mission, and performance of the organization and portfolio
Works with the leadership team to refine or develop critical measures of performance and risk, and uses these to proactively monitor, improve, protect, and, if needed, correct, the organization’s performance with clients, internally, and in the real estate portfolio
Holds accountability for overall organizational coordination and performance
People and Culture
Builds a strong team that works well together and has coordinated and complementary expertise
Ensures consistent implementation of trauma-informed values and practices at every level of the team—from community-facing roles to leadership positions
Establishes and maintains effective communications throughout the organization
Evaluates and, if needed, improves the organization structure for a healthy and productive workplace
Competencies
The CEO must possess a broad and flexible range of leadership and management competencies including but not limited to the following.
Build, develop, motivate, and delegate to high performing teams
Develop and sustain positive relationships across a diverse array of partners, supporters, and critics
Understand and bring a proactive and critical approach to monitoring the full range of organizational interactions and performance
Possess a strong working knowledge of organizational finances and cash flow
Pose critical questions in positive and compelling ways to improve performance and mitigate risk
Possess strong integrity and ethics
Serve as a strong advocate for the organization’s cause, mission, and vision through exceptional verbal and written communications and with the ability to support fundraising efforts
Possess or acquire the knowledge essential to supportive housing development such as trauma-informed practices, low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC), HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), State Apartment Incentive Loan (SAIL), and Affordable Housing Program (AHP), etc.
Experience and Education
Experience
Minimum of 10 years of executive leadership and managerial experience, preferably in a nonprofit setting
Minimum of 10 years building and leading teams
Minimum of 10 years financial experience including budgeting, monitoring performance, cash flow analysis, risk analysis, and scenario planning, preferably in a nonprofit setting
Experience working with governmental agencies and funding is preferred
Experience in supportive housing is preferred
Experience with land acquisition, development and construction of multi-family properties is preferred
Experience with financing for multi-family development for less-than-market-rate housing is preferred
Education
Minimum of bachelor's degree in business administration, non-profit management, or other related field. Master's degree preferred
Compensation, Benefits & Workplace
Compensation
$200,000-$250,000 annually, commensurate with experience
Benefits
12 paid holidays
Employer paid Dental
Vision at minimal cost
Medical (employer paid premium for lowest tier of coverage)
Generous PTO policy
403b retirement plan with employer match
Employment Status: full-time, exempt
Reports to: Board of Directors
Supervises: Leadership Team
Workplace
Ability Housing offers a flexible work schedule and hybrid environment. This position primarily requires a regular daily (Monday through Friday) work week in-person with some field presence. Some after hours, weekend duties, and travel are required. This position requires the ability to travel between work locations across the state of Florida, and sometimes out of state, possession of a valid Florida driver's license, and ownership of actively insured transportation.
To Apply
To apply, please send your cover letter and resume to Julia@GainClarity.net. Your cover letter should specifically address why you are passionate about working in affordable housing in Florida.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, with priority for those submitted by November 7, 2025. We will reply to all applicants.
For more information about Ability Housing, please visit www.abilityhousing.org. Inquiries can also be directed to Julia@GainClarity.net.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Ability Housing is firmly committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) in recruitment, hiring, training, and promotion of persons based on merit, qualifications, and competence. Except in cases where required or permitted by law, employment decisions and practices shall not be influenced or affected by virtue of an applicant's race, color, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, religion, handicap, or any other characteristic protected by law.