Director, Community Infrastructure Center

Role summary

Director, Community Infrastructure Center is a full-time role at MILKEN INSTITUTE in Washington, District of Columbia, United States (hybrid). Posted 2026-08-14. Salary: USD 120,000–150,000 per year. Experience level: 10+.

Job title

Director, Community Infrastructure Center

Company

MILKEN INSTITUTE

Location

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Work arrangement

hybrid

Employment type

full-time

Category

DevOps & Infrastructure

Salary

USD 120,000–150,000 per year

Experience level

10+

Date posted

2026-08-14

Job description

About the Milken Institute

The Milken Institute is a globally minded, publicly supported, non-partisan, and nonprofit think tank headquartered in Santa Monica, with offices in Washington, DC, New York, London, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore. For the past three decades, the Milken Institute has served as a catalyst for practical, scalable solutions to global challenges by connecting human, financial, and educational resources to those who need them. Guided by a conviction that the best ideas, under-resourced, cannot succeed, we conduct research and analysis and convene top experts, innovators, and influencers from different backgrounds and competing viewpoints. We leverage this expertise and insight to construct programs and policy initiatives. These activities are designed to help people build meaningful lives, in which they can experience health and well-being, pursue effective education and gainful employment, and access the resources required to create ever-expanding opportunities for themselves and their broader communities.

The Milken Institute’s events and programmatic activities, involve the exchange of ideas with leaders from around the world. The Institute hosts more than 200 events each year, with our annual flagship event, Global Conference, bringing together 4,500+ participants from around the world, featuring more than 900+ speakers throughout 200+ sessions over the course of the event.

About the Position

The Community Infrastructure Center (CIC), an initiative of the Milken Institute, is a platform designed to scale up equitable capital deployment and accelerate infrastructure projects in historically undercapitalized and underserved communities.

The CIC offers free connections to technical assistance for community-based project sponsors, project advancement tools, and links to a wide range of sources, including impact and institutional investors, federal and state grants, philanthropy, and project development expertise.

CIC is working toward three goals:

Help catalyze $3.5 billion in community infrastructure deals , through both direct transactions and secondary market transactions.

Leverage technology to support 10,000 communities across the United States that are advancing projects in energy, housing preservation and new construction, water, resilience, community development, commercial corridor development, and other asset classes.

Use research and convenings to support infrastructure market development at a regional and national level.

Since its launch, the CIC has grown into a national community of practice. The platform today supports more than 800 community infrastructure projects across 62 states, territories, and tribal nations, with over 3,000 members representing nearly 1,000 unique communities. The CIC convenes four standing forums, including the Community of Practice, the Community Power Forum, the Community Corridor Forum, and the Community Resilience Forum, alongside cross-forum working groups on predevelopment triage, capitalization, secondary markets and recapitalization, and data and AI.

The Director will lead community-building and the cultivation of projects seeking support on CIC and with its trusted partners. The successful candidate thrives in rooms with people (planners, city staff, community leaders, and funders) and builds relationships both digitally and in person. The Director is accountable for supporting communities and projects, and for ensuring that CIC's forums and convenings produce not only discussion but also project pipeline, productive partnerships, and progress on research that helps the field move forward.

The Director will be passionate about helping fill America's infrastructure gap and knowledgeable about a variety of assets and activities, such as renewable energy, battery storage, building decarbonization, broadband, commercial corridors, and water, with an interest in learning the ins and outs of delivering community-scale infrastructure projects and building the capital stacks that get them paid for.

Responsibilities

The Director will be responsible for the following activities:

Drive Deal Pipeline

Cultivating and coordinating assistance to a pipeline of projects from predevelopment through construction. Building relationships across markets to identify and triage potential projects; using the platform of the CIC and, in collaboration with technical assistance partners, guiding project triage and coordinating handoffs to move projects through pre-development stages toward construction-readiness and financing; and identifying opportunities for warm handoffs and connections between communities, funders, and partner organizations

Building and managing case management tracking systems at CIC. Working in collaboration with the existing tech team to refine and build out existing technology and AI tools to efficiently track projects in the pipeline; tracking pipeline progress against CIC's targets and flagging where projects are stalling, so the team can intervene and provide assistance

Extend CIC's Reach Toward 10,000 Communities

Managing CIC's collaborative forums. Owning and growing the working groups and forums that CIC has cultivated, including place-based regional efforts as well as thematic efforts (e.g., “community solar and storage” and “commercial corridors”); keeping forums active and productive by preparing materials for periodic meetings, hosting and facilitating biweekly and monthly calls, and sharing and posting relevant information, tools, and updates for forums that have an online web channel component; and actively growing forum membership by sharing opportunities to join with project owners in the pipeline and other stakeholders in the markets CIC touches

Supporting place-based engagements. Serving as CIC's on-the-ground presence at events in priority markets and represen