Strategy Lead, Community Impact

Summary

Join Community Solutions as a Strategy Lead on the Community Impact team! Supervise a team of System Improvement Advisors, drive strategic initiatives to combat homelessness, and translate learnings into actionable models. This role demands innovation, adaptation, and collaboration across multiple teams. You will be accountable for project milestones and outcomes, managing relationships with community leaders and internal partners. The position requires experience in project management, people management, and advancing racial equity. Community Solutions offers competitive salaries and benefits.

Requirements

• Five to seven years of previous work experience in a professional or equivalent environment
• Experience and demonstrated skills in creating and managing projects from concept through implementation, including organizational skills and problem solving to manage multiple competing priorities
• Experience and demonstrated skills in managing people and facilitating groups
• Experience/commitment to advancing racial equity, working in diverse environments, and with people who have been historically marginalized, including individuals and families who have faced housing instability, homelessness and poverty
• Experience with systems improvement and understanding and using data
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent relationship management skills and great judgment when working with external partners, communities and clients
• Ability to see, and pivot between, multiple paths to the same goal
• High learning agility and an unusually high tolerance for ambiguity
• Ability to move projects forward in a shifting, often uncertain environment and handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced setting
• Incredibly self-motivated and curious in pursuing new projects that bring the best thinking from other sectors and disciplines to this work
• Strong strategic thinking function
• Strong, organized multitasker

Responsibilities

• Lead, design, manage work planning for multiple projects within the Community Impact team
• Provide on-going professional development and supervision of direct reports
• Perform direct project work from idea generation through implementation for projects within the Community Impact portfolio
• Lead co-design, will-building + coordination of work across other Built for Zero portfolios as appropriate
• Apply Built for Zero’s methodology, including data quality, coaching, human-centered design, facilitation, and Quality Improvement (QI) framework in order to: Collaborate across portfolios, communities
• Apply Built for Zero’s methodology, including data quality, coaching, human-centered design, facilitation, and Quality Improvement (QI) framework in order to: Co-design and perform an on-going iteration of coaching and measurement models
• Apply Built for Zero’s methodology, including data quality, coaching, human-centered design, facilitation, and Quality Improvement (QI) framework in order to: Translate community-level theories of change, data standards, and small-scale tests to achieve the outcome of ending homelessness
• Support development of Community Impact team structure as appropriate, including supporting Community Impact staff to develop proficiencies in BFZ framework and project level staff oversight and development as needed
• Support the management of faculty contract scoping and execution as required by projects in the Community Impact portfolio
• Using data analysis and data interpretation skills to recommend pivots to community level strategies project and Community Impact Projects as necessary

Preferred Qualifications

Non-traditional candidates are welcome. Community Solutions strives for representation and authentic inclusion of applicants and employees who have direct, first-hand experience with poverty, homelessness, and their root causes (including marginalization, discrimination, and inequity)

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and benefits packages
• Salary range: $90,842-$120,572
• Flexible work from remote location