Chief Public Policy Officer

Community Development Bankers Association provided pay range

This range is provided by Community Development Bankers Association. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

$/yr - $/yr

Direct message the job poster from Community Development Bankers Association

Partners for the Common Good / Community Development Bankers Association

Job Posting

The Organization:

Partners for the Common Good (“Partners”) is a national community development finance organization that operates a family of companies with a common mission to advance economic empowerment and opportunity by partnering with and strengthening mission focused financial institutions to bring capital, create opportunity, and build wealth for low‑income people and communities.

Our sister organization, Community Development Bankers Association, is the national trade association for the community development bank sector. As the voice and champion of the industry, CDBA educates policy makers, regulators, and legislators on the importance of the sector and the financial service needs of low and moderate income communities.

As industry experts, we provide opportunities for capacity building, tailored financial services, and public policy advocacy to our network (e.g., creating tools and practitioner guides for impact measurement and management, and other critical assets) to advance economic opportunity in low‑income communities.

Our unique business model is driven by the partnerships within a network of U.S. based Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) that provide impactful capital to communities across the United States. We also develop collaborative opportunities within the broader finance industry, impact depositors and mission‑aligned institutions who see value in community development finance as a systemic solution to stabilizing vulnerable communities.

Partners operates the following entities:

• PCG Loan Fund – PCG is a national CDFI lending network with local impact focused on affordable housing and community facilities finance.(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..org
• Community Development Bankers Association – CDBA is the national trade association for the CDFI banking sector and advocates for the industry and communities they serve,.org
• Cap Nexus – is an industry networking and information sharing platform .org

The Position:

The Chief Public Policy Officer is an enterprise‑wide role that will work across all of our entities. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Partners works in a hybrid environment with three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) in person in the office and two days a week optional remote work. This is a full‑time 40‑hour‑per‑week position. The position is based in Washington DC.

A core responsibility of the position is implementing the public policy agenda of the Community Development Bankers Association (CDBA). CDBA is managed under a management agreement with Partners for the Common Good (PCG). The Public Policy Director will be an employee of PCG, but principally assigned to duties to support its work with CDBA.

CDBA is the national trade association of FDIC‑certified CDFI banks, thrifts, and bank holding companies. CDBA’s members are mission‑focused institutions that provide lending, financial services, and technical assistance in disinvested urban, rural and Native American communities across the United States. CDBA is the voice of the CDFI and mission focused banking sector through public policy advocacy, promoting industry best practices, and peer networking.

We seek a high energy and dynamic candidate to advance our public policy advocacy agenda.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage advocacy campaigns and outreach on Capitol Hill and Federal agencies.
• Stay abreast of regulatory and legislative developments that affect Federal community development and financial services policies and programs.
• Analyze regulatory proposals and policies to assess impact on the membership and the low income communities they serve.
• Draft public comment letters and Congressional testimony.
• Analyze, compile and disseminate research,…