Strategy Lead

Summary

Join Community Solutions, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending homelessness, as the Strategy Lead for Housing Systems. Reporting to the Principal, Housing Systems, you will develop and deploy strategies to connect individuals to housing and maintain their housing stability. This two-year grant-funded position focuses on utilizing underutilized housing resources for those experiencing homelessness. You will work with Built for Zero communities, collaborating with various stakeholders to increase access to affordable housing. Success involves translating and managing diverse perspectives among partners, including government agencies, property owners, and non-profits. The role requires strong strategic leadership and experience in non-traditional housing strategies.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8+ years of experience in housing policy, planning, community development or related field
• Significant experience in a relevant field (e.g. housing and homelessness policy, planning) managing complex, multi-stakeholder processes
• Demonstrated ability to build and cultivate relationships with partners and stakeholders across a broad range of community entities, including but not limited to: advocacy groups, city and county governments and agencies, nonprofit organizations and public-private partnerships
• Strong experience managing projects from strategy design to implementation, as evidenced by leading projects to successful and measurable completion
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to write in a clear and concise manner, including for technical documents such as strategic plans and memos
• Understanding of and experience working with the principles of Process Improvement and Design Thinking
• Ability to think strategically, handle ambiguity and work in a very fast-paced, limited-structure, multicultural environment
• Entrepreneurial mindset, including ability to work independently, self-motivate, and take initiative
• Exceptional attention to detail, data-driven decision-making and able to operate at high-level to ensure strategic alignment with many disparate groups and shifting priorities
• Ability to break down problems across a wide range of areas, identify root causes before developing and systematically testing potential hypotheses and solutions
• Demonstrated self-awareness and empathetic communication style with an ability and eagerness to learn, improve, and grow as a leader, thinker and doer

Responsibilities

• Operationalize and deploy scalable strategies for increasing near term access to affordable housing dedicated to the homeless response system
• Create and deploy strategies to connect housing opportunities to meet the needs of individuals experiencing homelessness
• Create and deploy strategies to optimize access to existing housing resources
• Create and deploy strategies to support individuals to maintain housing, preventing homelessness from occurring
• Support Built for Zero communities in engaging property owners and managers and other key stakeholders to achieve their Functional Zero goals
• Work directly with the Principal, Housing Systems, the Community Solutions’ Built for Zero team, Acquisition Fund Partners, and external stakeholders to define, prototype, refine and scale a process to effectively and efficiently connect all CS acquired properties to local housing placement systems for those experiencing homelessness ("Coordinated Entry Systems")
• Collaborate with local Built for Zero partners to advance housing development projects, including providing design, financing, regulatory and project management support as necessary
• Support broader Housing Systems strategy implementation

Preferred Qualifications

Experience navigating multi stakeholder partnerships, community development and social impact design

Benefits

• CS offers competitive salaries and benefits packages for every position
• The salary range for this position is between $90,842 - 120,572
• The actual salary will be commensurate with the candidate's experience
• This position can be located anywhere in the continental United States
• The Built for Zero team has office space in Los Angeles and New York City, but the position provides for the flexibility to work from a remote location without the standard support available at an office if such an arrangement meets the needs of Community Solutions
• Travel will be required to attend semi-annual team retreats, community site visits, and other on-site training or convenings as necessary
• Most travel is to major cities around the US