Careers

• Initiative Oversight
  • Lead the implementation of the Right at Home model across 10 pilot communities with varied local systems and contexts.
  • Design, maintain, and improve Destination: Home’s quarterly performance-monitoring system to provide a clear, comparable view of progress across all pilot communities.
  • Identify emerging challenges, diagnose contributing factors, and work with partner communities to develop solutions and capture learnings.
  • Approve local modifications within established eligibility and fidelity parameters and elevate significant adaptations that could affect research validity or materially depart from the model.
  • Direct attention and support where most needed, including traveling to and working in the field with communities requiring deeper assistance.
  • Be accountable for multi-year budgets, annual priorities, performance measures, and timely execution across the initiative.
  • Ensure alignment across program implementation, research, evaluation, data, and technical assistance partners.
  • Manage contractors and vendors related to site-specific work and ensure their efforts align with initiative priorities.
• Program and Grantmaking Leadership
  • Provide oversight of the national grantmaking portfolio and pilot community investments.
  • Supervise staff and oversee day-to-day administration, implementation coordination, technical assistance, and follow-through across all sites.
  • Partner with research, evaluation, and data partners to monitor community-level performance, implementation fidelity, and continuous improvement.
  • Conducts annual site visits and quarterly check-in calls, as well as reviewing grant reports and budget amendment requests, with the pilot communities
  • Coordinate local experts, provider networks, technical assistance providers, and research partners to support effective local implementation.
  • Oversee a consultant-supported best practices learning community of 20-30 communities, ensuring its work reinforces Right at Home and supports coordinated federal advocacy.
• External Partnerships
  • Build trusted relationships with community grantee partners and local implementation leaders, while maintaining a current understanding of progress, risks, and support needs in each pilot community.
  • Serve as Destination: Home’s lead and connector for Right at Home, using a network of internal and external experts to route questions and bring in specialized support.
  • Support fundraising by providing performance data and community examples and participating in partner and funder meetings.
  • Represent Right at Home at national conferences, policy forums, and stakeholder convenings.
  • Lead relevant steering committees, advisory groups, and national partnerships.
• Organizational Leadership
  • Lead, coach, and develop the Right at Home team and assess whether additional staffing or expertise is needed.
  • Develop and refine the systems, governance processes, and cross-team coordination needed to support the initiative.
  • Provide regular updates and bring data-informed strategic and resource recommendations to the Leadership Team.
  • Foster a collaborative, equity-centered, high-performing culture.
• Learning, Evaluation, and Communications
  • Champion a culture of learning by using monitoring data, evaluation findings, and community experience to inform strategic decisions and adjustments.
  • Share data, local successes, implementation challenges, and best practices across communities, partners, and organizational teams.
  • Coordinate with communications and policy teams to share Right at Home’s progress, highlight local successes, and prepare pilot and learning-community jurisdictions for coordinated federal advocacy.
• Other
  • Other related duties as assigned.

The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not meant to be all-inclusive and are subject to change. Employees are expected to be flexible and adaptable, performing other related duties as needed to meet the organization’s evolving goals and priorities.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in homelessness prevention, affordable housing, philanthropy, public policy, community development, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-site initiatives, cross-sector partnerships, and teams.  Experience leading multi-state initiatives is preferred.
• Experience scaling a model across communities strongly preferred.
• Experience overseeing grantmaking, budgets, program operations, strategy, and data-driven performance monitoring.
• Strong knowledge of housing and homelessness systems, public funding, supportive services, and community-centered approaches.
• Ability to navigate political environments, influence policy, build coalitions, manage conflict, and facilitate complex discussions.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational management skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, economic justice, systems change, and incorporating lived experience into program and policy design.
• Lived experience with homelessness or housing instability is strongly valued.