Senior Director - Housing Policy

Senior Director - Housing Policy

Capital One, a Fortune 500 company and one of the nation’s top 10 banks, offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients. Our goal is to create one of the nation's great banks, and we have the necessary ingredients: a strong balance sheet, resilient businesses, a massive customer franchise, strong analytical capabilities, and great people. We nurture a work environment where people with a variety of thoughts, ideas, and backgrounds, guided by our shared values, come together to make Capital One a great company—and a great place to work.
 

External Affairs works with many external and internal stakeholders to envision and create a world of greater socioeconomic opportunity through advocating for an inclusive society, building thriving communities, and creating financial tools that enrich lives. Our teams include Communications, Community Impact and Investment, Community Finance, CRA Strategy and Program Management, the Government and Political Affairs Group, Regulatory Relations, and Strategy and Engagement. Through our teams, we have unparalleled access to a diverse group of motivated changemakers similarly focused on the ingredients for a more perfect future.
 

Community Finance provides capital that finances inclusive, thriving resident-centered communities that catalyze opportunity and promote well-being, as well as provides capital to community development financial institutions. The team partners with teams across External Affairs, Small Business and Commercial Bank to provide capital to affordable housing developers and community development institutions.

The Role:

Community Finance is seeking a strategically oriented and energetic Senior Director of Housing Policy to collaborate with teams across the External Affairs and the Enterprise to engage in the policymaking process with a focus on housing and housing adjacent issues. We know that policymakers have the ability to reshape our business models and strategies that will impact our customers, communities and shareholders.

The Senior Director role will be a key member of the Community Finance leadership team and responsible for driving our policy and advocacy agenda in partnership with the Government and Policy Affairs Group and the Community Impact and Investment teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with key influencers, including trade associations and think tanks and relevant organizations

• Analyze legislative proposals for business and community impacts

• Develop policy position papers to inform advocacy strategy

• Work with internal partners to develop and execute coordinated advocacy strategy

• Collaborate with internal partners to identify, organize and execute market convening

• Collaborate with internal partners to develop content to educate leaders on key policy issues

The role will involve up to 50% travel as needed.  It also involves attending events before and after normal business hours and overnight trips or conferences.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or military experience

• At least 10 years of developing advocacy strategies, market strategies, or content strategy

• At least 8 years of experience working in housing policy

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 1 year of People leadership experience

• Experience with complex stakeholder management

• Strong communication and relationship building skills, customer focus, and ability to collaborate and influence across teams to deliver

• At least 1 year of experience with community organizing, nonprofit, or political experience

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $264,300 - $301,700 for Sr. Director, Govt Relations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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