Housing for All Director

Position Title: Housing for All Director

Reports to: Chief Initiative Officer, Centers for Housing Opportunity

Location: Hybrid – Connecticut-based

Status: Full-Time, Exempt

Salary: $100,000, plus benefits

About The Housing Collective

The Housing Collective's mission is to harness the power of collective impact to provide access to housing and ensure housing stability for all. HC envisions a future where a safe, stable, and affordable home is available to every member of our communities, as a springboard to opportunity and the foundation for a healthy, productive, and meaningful life.

The Housing Collective partners with hundreds of organizations across Connecticut, convening communities and aligning resources and stakeholders to collaboratively change regional housing systems and to deliver real, lasting housing solutions for communities. HC is the backbone organization for three core initiatives – Opening Doors, Centers for Housing Opportunity, and the Housing Innovation Lab – all focused on a singular mission: to solve homelessness and ensure access to safe, affordable housing for all.

About Housing for All

The Housing for All Alliance is a statewide network of neighbors, resident leaders, grassroots groups, and organizations working together to build local power and advance housing solutions and housing justice with a focus on rural and suburban communities across Connecticut. The intent of Housing for All is to lay the groundwork for a Connecticut where residents and resident groups in rural and suburban communities are actively working locally and are ultimately connected to one another statewide to create a Connecticut where everyone can afford to live, stay and thrive.

The Housing Collective serves as the backbone for Housing for All, ensuring that residents and resident groups in rural and suburban communities can access tools, training, coaching, education, communications and other resources necessary to support their efforts to organize around and engage on housing issues in their communities.

Position Overview

The Housing for All Director will serve as a key leader on The Housing Collective team, responsible for managing the ongoing development and implementation of the Housing for All program. The Director will report to the Centers for Housing Opportunity Chief Initiative Officer, and will be responsible for 1) Administering the grant through which the program is funded, and 2) Management of the program on the ground, coordinating with multiple regional leads, community organizers, partner organizations and stakeholder groups. The Housing for All Director will also collaborate with the The Housing Collective’s Housing Innovation Lab to ensure coordination and shared structures, staff capacity, and feedback loops between Housing for All and HC’s Lived Experience Initiative for Transformation (LEIT) advisory governance.

Core competencies for this role include leadership, performance management, relationship management and data-informed decision-making. This role requires availability and travel for evening and weekend meetings to support resident and community schedules and statewide convenings.

Key responsibilities are as follow:

Program Administration

• Project management
• Financial management, including oversight of and responsibility for management and tracking of program budget, subcontracts, and pass through funding
• Performance metrics data tracking, collection and analysis, including development and implementation of tracking systems for partner organizations to assure grant expectation compliance
• Coordination of communications among and between HC program and communications staff and consultants, regional leads, partner organizations, and grassroots groups
• Scheduling and facilitating regular coordinating meetings between lead partner organizations
• Oversee and support relevant program staff, consultants, and/or contractors (including regional leads and engagement/communications support as applicable) by setting priorities, ensuring accountability, and supporting performance and growth

Program Coordination

• Tracking of locally and regionally expressed interests, wants, needs, and opportunities
• Delivery of statewide supports to residents and local groups across regions, including resources, technical assistance, content education, training and coaching
• Coordination with and among regional leads
• Tracking of regional work plan implementation and ongoing activities
• Facilitating statewide coordinating committee meetings and activities
• Partner cross-functionally with HC initiative teams (Opening Doors, CHO, Lab) to ensure alignment with HC strategy, shared engagement principles, and coordinated delivery of tools/training/communications

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have both project management and on the ground program experience engaging and coordinating multiple partners, stakeholders, residents and groups working in local communities on housing related issues. Specifically, qualifications for the role include:

• 5+ years of experience in the nonprofit, organizing, housing or community development sectors
• Demonstrated experience in project management and cross-team coordination
• Knowledge and understanding of community organizing and engagement strategies
• Experience partnering across teams to integrate community feedback into strategy, program design, and continuous improvement.
• Experience supervising staff and/or consultants
• Exceptional organizational, interpersonal, and verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and mission-driven environment
• Proficient in project management tools and data tracking systems
• Access to reliable transportation for travel in and around Connecticut

Please submit a brief cover letter and a resume to humanresources@thehousingcollective.org.

Benefits: The Housing Collective offers a robust benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage (some employer-paid, some cost-shared), plus pre-tax savings options like an HSA and FSA. We also provide company-paid basic life and long-term disability, a free Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and access to a variety of voluntary benefits and employee discounts.