Community Development Manager

Mechanics Bank is currently searching for a Community Development Manager to join our team. Here at Mechanics Bank, we value connection, partnership, long term relationships and working together in person. This role will be working on-site at our Irvine location.

The Community Development Manager will assist with ensuring the Bank meets the regulatory requirements of a large institution under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Responsible for assisting with the sourcing and identifying CRA qualified grant and volunteer opportunities; making recommendations regarding charitable giving; monitoring the allocation of grants and service activities throughout the Bank's CRA assessment areas consistent with Program objectives; and validating and documenting all CRA activities for grants and service to ensure compliance with the CRA. Assists with outreach activities consistent with Mechanics Bank's mission and strategy focus and CRA regulatory requirements. Helps to identify and direct the development and implementation of CRA grant and outreach initiatives.

What you will be doing:

• Ensures established annual CRA grant and CD service hour goals are met and align with Bank and CRA Program objectives.

• Coordinates with other bank teams including Marketing and Retail to achieve goals and objectives.

• Develops and manages partnerships with nonprofit and community leaders within the Bank's assessment areas to facilitate CRA grant and service opportunities to achieve CRA and CIG goals.

• Provides support with Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco AHEAD and matching grant programs.

• Leverages CRA relationships into cross selling opportunities for other areas of the Bank.

• Infrastructure, Compliance, Data Collection and Reporting -maintains strong controls and processes to ensure data integrity and accurate reporting of CRA qualified activities.

• Monitors, analyzes and reports performance against stated goals and objectives; helps to develop strategies to remediate any performance gaps.

• Monitors peer bank performance, public community benefit agreements, regulatory and advocacy trends; informs CRA department of trends, risks and opportunities.

• Assists with the development of key Program reports including CRA Self-Assessments, Community Needs Assessments and Performance Context.

• Provides support related to CRA examinations and audits.

• CRA Training - Directs, maintains and develops specific and general CRA training. Ensures appropriate presentation materials are developed, updated and maintained for all audiences including employees, regulators and the community.

• External Leadership -Represents the Bank at a number of community functions, committees, organizations and conferences while serving as a liaison between executive management, community leaders and regulatory agencies. Serves on at least one non-profit board or committee.

Who you are:

• Undergraduate degree or related experience, preferably within a financial institution (or highly regulated industry) preferred.

• 3+ years of progressive experience in community development and CRA related polices, programs and experience desired

• Community Development and Affordable Housing Lending background preferred.

• Familiarity with FHLB and other community programs highly desirable.

• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills. Ability to comfortably shift priorities and work under tight deadlines. Ability to multi-task by managing various ongoing projects. Demonstrated ability to plan, direct and control projects; solve problems and make prudent decisions.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills to monitor the Bank's performance and develop strategies to ensure achievement of the Bank's CRA goals and objectives.

• Strong interpretative skills - able to understand technical procedures, or government regulations and clearly explain concepts and guidelines to others (written and oral).

• Strong presentation skills and comfort with being in front of an audience of peers, managers and the community we serve.

• Regarded as a trusted advocate of both the Bank and community we provide services to. Able to explain the services we offer and how we can work effectively together and build long-term, sustaining relationships

• Excellent analytical, communications (written, verbal, presentation) skills; organizational skills, business acumen and report writing.

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Salary: $88,000-139,000 annually

Final compensation package will be determined by the work experience, education, and/or skill level of the applicant along with internal equity and alignment with geographic market data.

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