Mission
Help homeowners and the pilot team navigate relevant public, nonprofit, and private funding pathways while maintaining accurate, complete, and secure program documentation.
Responsibilities
- Research and maintain a current directory of potentially relevant grants, rebates, loans, financing programs, and other homeowner assistance.
- Translate published program requirements into clear internal checklists and homeowner-facing guidance.
- Help households understand documentation requirements and application steps without providing regulated financial, tax, or legal advice.
- Coordinate application materials, eligibility documentation, deadlines, approvals, and reporting requirements.
- Work closely with outreach, operations, bookkeeping, and external program administrators.
- Build professional relationships with county and state agencies, nonprofit partners, lenders, and other funding stakeholders.
- Track application status and maintain secure, accurate records.
- Monitor program updates and communicate material changes to the team.
Ideal background
Grant administration, affordable housing, community lending, public-benefit programs, government programs, nonprofit finance, loan processing, or program operations involving detailed eligibility and reporting requirements.
Must-haves
- Exceptional attention to detail and document-management skills.
- Ability to interpret program guidance and explain it in straightforward language.
- Experience managing deadlines, applications, or compliance records.
- Strong spreadsheet and data-tracking skills.
- Discretion when handling financial and personally identifiable information.
- Clear judgment about when to refer homeowners to licensed legal, tax, lending, or financial professionals.
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with Hawaiʻi housing, infrastructure, environmental, or rural-development funding.
- Experience working with government grants, community development financial institutions, credit unions, or nonprofit assistance programs.
- Knowledge of income-verification and household-eligibility workflows.
- Experience creating audit-ready reporting packages.
- Project-management or grant-management certification.
What success looks like in the first 90 days
- Creates a reliable, current map of relevant funding pathways and key program contacts.
- Establishes secure checklists and tracking for applications, documentation, deadlines, and reporting.
- Supports the first participating households through funding-readiness or application steps.
- Develops working relationships with priority funding and community-finance partners.
- Gives leadership a clear view of funding status, homeowner barriers, and upcoming program deadlines.