Strategy Lead, Community Impact

Summary

Join Community Solutions, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending homelessness, as their Strategy Lead on the Community Impact team. Supervise a team of System Improvement Advisors, providing support as they work with communities and lead collaborative efforts. Drive forward strategy and design initiatives to help Built for Zero communities make homelessness rare, brief, and nonrecurring. Translate learnings into actionable community-level models and coaching approaches, innovating and adapting initiatives to meet the needs of those experiencing homelessness and community leaders. Coordinate strategy across multiple teams and contribute to other Built for Zero/Community Impact projects. This is a 2-year grant-funded position with potential renewal.

Requirements

• Experience in curriculum creation and adult education system is beneficial
• 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 in curriculum development and knowledge sharing with communities in the collaborative. This will include providing resources, training, and facilitation to communities and in managing staff and needed faculty
• Lead the development and implementation of community specific strategies and related work plans and weigh in on strategic decisions as needed
• Be accountable for milestones and outcomes of multiple projects at one time
• Communicate and collaborate with the Deputy Director, Community Impact; Director, Community Impact; Co-Strategy Leads, Community Impact; and Built for Zero Strategy Leads and Directors
• Manage relationships and on-going communication with community leaders and internal partners
• Translate learnings into strategy
• Understand quickly and work to implement the vision of the Community Impact Principals, including advancing work plans, racial equity objectives and contributing to key decisions for the organization
• Identify and evaluate the risks and solutions associated with initiatives
• Lead a team of System Improvement Advisors to execute strategic initiatives
• 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 Co-design and perform an on-going iteration of coaching and measurement models 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
• This position supervises staff members including ongoing professional development

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

• 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 is commensurate with the candidate's experience
• This position can be located anywhere within a reasonable travel distance of partnership locations
• Community Solutions neighborhood partnerships are presently located in New York City, Hartford, and Washington DC
• Community Solutions has office space available for use in New York City
• The position provides for the flexibility to work from a remote location without the standard support available at an office
• Travel may be required to attend semi-annual team retreats, community visits, and other on-site training or convenings
• Additional travel may be needed and will be negotiated on an individual basis pending availability