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Focus Strategies.

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Systems thinking orientation to ending homelessness • Coordinated entry • Rapid re-housing • Supportive housing • Disparities analyses

11 - 50 employees

🌍 Social Impact

Description

• Focus Strategies consultants are passionate about ending homelessness and have spent at least three years developing and implementing homelessness response programs and systems or in housing/homelessness response policy development. • We use outstanding critical thinking, analytical and interpersonal communication skills to manage a variety of projects. • Serve as the project manager for consulting and technical assistance contracts relating to homelessness response system development and planning. • Conduct research and analyses related to homelessness response systems and programs, identifying key findings, and proposing person-centered, data- and equity-informed solutions. • Analyze data from single systems (e.g. homelessness) and multiple disciplines, including health, mental health, homelessness, and affordable housing. • Author Focus Strategies technical documents, publications, and reports, including developing report outline and structure, drafting content, integrating feedback from supervisor and client, and producing final content. • Deliver a range of planning and design activities to help communities develop systems and policies to end or reduce homelessness through an equity- and data-informed lens. • Develop training and technical assistance materials for a range of audiences. • Work closely and collaboratively with supervisor and company leadership to set priorities, organize project workflow, and provide timely updates. • Make presentations to community stakeholders. • Actively participate in continuous learning and process and product improvement efforts with the Focus team.

Requirements

• A passion for ending homelessness with a commitment to data-informed public policy, including advancing equity for marginalized communities. • A graduate degree in sociology, public policy, social work, or a related field (at least four years of experience in a management role in the homelessness response field may substitute for a graduate degree). • At least three years of substantive/system-level experience in homelessness response. • At least three years of experience developing high quality written analyses of homelessness response programs, populations, and dynamics. • Understanding of racism, oppression, and the ways in which systems interplay to cause homelessness and housing instability, and the ability to appropriately engages clients where they are to fluently advance equity throughout the work. • Ability to work effectively with people of diverse races, ethnicities, nationalities, sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expression, socio-economic backgrounds, religions, ages, English-speaking abilities, immigration status, and physical abilities in a multicultural environment. • Knowledge of nonprofit and government structures (including roles and responsibilities of client partners and their stakeholders). • Experience in client/customer support, adjusting materials and approach to meet client/customer needs. • Demonstrated understanding of interview techniques and meeting/group facilitation. • Successful track record of developing and executing workplans for complex projects. • Ability to assess and interpret quantitative and qualitative data about homelessness and homeless programs and systems. • Strong verbal and analytical skills, superior technical writing skills. • Flexibility - must be able to work with shifts in priorities on a daily and weekly basis. • Willingness to do whatever is needed to support projects and staff in accomplishing work. • Excellent attention to detail and self-directed. • Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. • Able to travel occasionally throughout the West Coast and rarely to other areas. • Ability to operate a computer for 8 hours per day. • Ability to give and receive detailed information through verbal and written communication. • Ability to perform activities such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing, expansive reading. • Ability to set up and maintain a safe and ergonomic workspace in home environment with minimal paper file management, including receiving occasional office supply shipments, rare shipping of equipment for repair, and carrying laptop and files or occasional all-day travel. • Must reside in the United States and be able to provide proof of U.S. employment eligibility at the time of hire.

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, sick time, and 10 holidays) • 401(k) with 4% salary match and profit sharing • Health, dental, and vision • Flexible spending plans • Short and long-term disability insurance