Become a Faculty Member

To become a faculty member with NeighborWorks America, you first must be a qualified expert in your field. Second, with few exceptions, you must be a practitioner with hands-on, day-to-day experience in your area of expertise. While theory is important and we occasionally use the expertise of faculty from universities, the vast majority of our faculty members are practitioners. Third, you should have a great deal of field experience. The majority of our faculty members have more than 15 years of field work. We recommend no less than 10 years.

If you wish to be included in the pool of consultants from which we choose faculty members, first you need to complete a request for qualifications (RFQ) application. Once you have done this, we will evaluate your qualifications. If after review you are selected as a potential faculty member, you will receive a letter of agreement, which places you in our pool for a five-year period. If asked to train, your active letter of agreement will be the basis for our issuing you a task order for each individual training or other task.