Community Affairs Intern

Illinois Housing Development Authority

Dec 26, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Off-cycle Internship
Architecture & Urban Planning
Chicago

Requirements

Must be an active college student in good academic standing in an accredited college or university in Illinois. Must be pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Urban Planning, Public Policy and/or Administration, Finance, or related field. Needs strong abilities to prepare and analyze data. Excellent analytical, technical, research, written, and verbal communication skills. Polished presentation skills. Highly organized, efficient, self-motivated, and detail oriented. Excellent computer skills, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. GIS mapping skills and other graphic and design skills are a plus.
Open to college students (must be an actively enrolled undergraduate or graduate student at the time of applying)

Responsibilities

Support department leadership with ongoing planning initiatives which emphasize a strong need for operational efficiencies, qualitative improvements in program outcomes, and connections to the CA Department Plan. Assistance here may include creating and implementing of a functional department work plan template to facilitate the plan’s mandates alongside baseline department operations.
Assist with the comprehensive review of existing department data resources, tools, and analysis methods, to identify areas for practical improvement. As necessary, assist with data and records maintenance, useful tools or analysis infrastructure creation, and data-focused policies and procedures.
As directed assist with special projects for the department’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund, housing counseling, and community revitalization funding programs.
Assist with analyzing programmatic data and records to produce visualization and narrative documentation such as reports, memos, handouts, charts, tables, graphs, maps, presentations, etc.
Review department policies, procedures, process guides, etc, to identify potential improvements or clarification. If necessary, prepare supplemental materials to improve user comprehension of the existing documents.
Perform other duties as assigned, and as required, attend any listening sessions, networking events, public presentations, or other work functions which correspond to the work in Community Affairs.

Illinois Housing Development Authority

Financing the Creation and Preservation of Affordable Housing in Illinois

Real Estate

Industry

201-500

Employees

Mission & Purpose

The Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) finances the creation and preservation of affordable housing in Illinois. IHDA was created by the state legislature in 1967 as a self-supporting agency to finance affordable housing across Illinois. IHDA does not use taxpayer dollars to sustain its operations, although it does administer publicly funded programs on behalf of the state. Since its creation, IHDA has provided more than $15 billion to finance a quarter million affordable homes. IHDA accomplishes its mission through a number of funding sources including the Illinois Affordable Housing Trust Fund, Illinois Affordable Housing Tax Credits, the allocation of federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and HOME Investment Partnership funds. IHDA is also a bonding authority and independently sells bonds, based on our strong credit rating of A1/AA-/AA- from Moody’s Investors Service, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings respectively. We partner with lenders, developers, local government, nonprofits, community groups and others to deliver low-cost financing programs. We provide financial assistance to low- and moderate-income homebuyers and homeowners, offer resources to developers who build or preserve affordable and mixed-income rental housing and provide oversight for hundreds of affordable rental communities across the state.