Hope Revitalization Corporation Executive Director
Xavier University of Louisiana
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Posted: 18-May-23
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 2526
Job Summary:
The Executive Director of Hope Revitalization Corporation (HRC) is a highly visible accomplished
professional who reports to the HRC Board of Directors and closely liaises with the Xavier University President and Administration. The Executive Director must have the ability to facilitate a plan for Xavier University, the City of New Orleans, and the region that builds upon strengths and needs of the Gert Town community in partnership with Xavier University of Louisiana and founders of the HRC.
The Executive Director will:
Make strategic decisions.
Demonstrate strong civic and community leadership.
Build relationships with economic development partners, the business community and area municipalities.
Help define the character and trajectory of economic growth by focusing on promoting the community and developing sustainable jobs matched to local employment needs and opportunities.
Represent and protect HRC's interests by assisting in the establishment of corporate strategies, policies and plans that align with government laws, regulations and standards.
Maintain and nurture the relationships with government and associated authorities.
The Executive Director shall support HRC's profile as an organization that will stimulate economic growth, business development and community revitalization by creating new business opportunities and building on local assets, resources, heritage and innovation.
K e y Responsibilities:
Economic Development:
Principal liaison to the Board of Trustees and President of Xavier University or their designee providing overall coordination and oversight for the implementation of the various projects and activities that will be contained in an overall HRC and the Xavier University Master Plan.
Undertake analysis and evaluation of economic and business development opportunities and identify strategies to develop the opportunities.
Secure funding for economic development activities and programs.
Establish a relationship with the City of New Orleans and other economic development organizations.
Business Development:
Develop and manage programs and services to improve the business environment in the community.
Act as primary contact for business and investor inquiries and act as liaison with the local business community, industry and government agencies.
Identify valuable commercial opportunities and develop business relationships and investor prospects.
Utilize business opportunities to create job opportunities.
Community Revitalization
Plan and organize the implementation of projects and administer community development and revitalization programs.
Assume full leadership and management responsibility for all community development and revitalization services and activities.
Partner with communities to increase civic participation, health and well- being and to reach agreement on priorities to be included in community plans.
Work with community groups to coordinate job placement.
Assist in the development and monitoring of community housing plans and prepare funding proposals to deliver community housing projects identified by the community and defined in policy and plans.
Governmental Affairs
Direct policies and objectives involving local, state and federal governmental affairs.
Assist in the establishment of strategies, policies and plans, which align with government laws, regulations and standards.
Monitor legislative and regulatory activities.
Develop action plans because of the assessment of activities.
Serve as a liaison to key regulatory officials.
Community Engagement:
Develop a variety of promotional and marketing tools and community building events to attract new businesses to the Community.
Develop resources to support, implement and monitor outreach strategies.
Integrate and build upon Xavier's brand campaign with HRC expansion projects.
Planning and Technical Support:
Conduct research, analysis, planning, and evaluation for the HRC, City of New Orleans and private organizations.
Evaluate governmental laws that affect the HRC
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in a business or finance field. Five (5) or more years of experience in real estate development, community outreach, working with university founded foundations, developing P3 partnerships valued at $100m plus, and a successful record in managing a large inventory of residential homes and commercial properties at multiple sites.
Xavier University of Louisiana, founded by St. Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in 1925, is Catholic and historically Black. The ultimate purpose of the University is to contribute to the promotion of a more just and humane society by preparing its students to assume roles of leadership and service in a global society. The only historically Black, Catholic university in the United States, XULA is a private, liberal-arts based, co-educational institution offering 40 undergraduate majors, 5 master’s degree programs and a doctor of pharmacy program. More than one-half of its 3,100 students are from Louisiana, but it draws students from nearly all fifty states and 35 countries. Xavier is recognized as a national leader in the sciences and the liberal arts: • #1 in the nation in the number of African American graduates who go on to complete medical school (AAMC data 2019). • Among the nation’s top four colleges of pharmacy in graduating African Americans with Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) degrees. (2018) • #1 in the nation in awarding bachelor's degrees to African American students in the biological and biomedical sciences, the physical sciences, and physics. ...(2018) • #3 in the nation in the number of African American graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. in science and engineering disciplines. (2018) • The Department of Physics is #1 in the nation for awarding African Americans baccalaureate degrees in physics and the physical sciences, according to the American Institute of Physics. (2018) Xavier is consistently ranked by the American Chemical Society as one of the top 25 universities in the nation. • The 2020 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges named Xavier among its 300 “best and most interesting” four-year colleges and universities. • Xavier was also singled out as one of the nation’s 385 best institutions for undergraduate education by The Princeton Review in the 2020 edition of its annual “The Best 385 Colleges”. • College Consensus, a unique college ratings website that aggregates publisher rankings and student reviews, ranks Xavier as the nation’s #3 Historically Black Colleges and Universities) (2019). It also ranks Xavier as #3 among all Louisiana colleges. • College Factual ranks both Xavier’s biology and chemistry programs as program as No. 1 in Louisiana. (2019) • Your 2018 Guide to College Transfer lists Xavier as one of only 90 colleges and universities nationwide profiled as “transfer friendly” in this guide to the college transfer process by the Kaplan Educational Foundation. • The Student Loan Report ranks #Xavier 12 out of 800 Private schools who left graduates with the least amount of private student loan debt, a form of financial aid known for higher interest rates and less forgiving repayment programs. (2018) • Zippia.com named Xavier's Psychology Program as #1 in Louisiana. (2018) • Learn.org ranks Xavier Among the Top 50 STEM schools in the U.S. (2019) • The Edvocate ranks Xavier as the nation’s No. 3 Catholic University. (2019) • Zippia.com rates Xavier #1 in Louisiana in its 2019 report, “Best College in Each State for Getting a Job”.