Outreach & Diversion Director

Mary’s Place is on a mission to ensure that no child sleeps outside. As an organizational thought leader, change agent, and member of the Mary’s Place Leadership Team, the Outreach & Diversion Director oversees Mary’s Place’s mobile outreach work to families who are living unsheltered (e.g., outside, in vehicles, tents, etc.) throughout King County. The director also leads a collaborative of nonprofit organizations providing family services at the Allen Family Center (AFC) in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood. Additionally, the director oversees our partnerships with local hospitals to ensure families and pregnant individuals do not discharge into homelessness.

Throughout these ventures, the Outreach & Diversion Director operates a Housing First model and applies innovative, responsive, and trauma-informed approaches to help families secure permanent housing. Furthermore, the director works to strengthen and broaden the spectrum of outreach and diversion services Mary’s Place offers. The director has a keen attention to detail and manages multiple grants, contracts, and budgets. They oversee Mary’s Place Outreach Request Portal, steward numerous partnerships, and work to deepen our connections to community stakeholders and providers.

The Outreach and Diversion Director actively engages in Mary’s Place racial equity work—striving for equitable outcomes and taking responsibility for creating, maintaining, and affirming communities for people of color, immigrants, and refugees, trans and gender-non-conforming people, and other populations who routinely encounter systemic oppressions. As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply.

This position reports to the Chief Program & Innovation Officer. The director leads the Outreach & Diversion Team, including supervising two Outreach Managers who oversee a combined total of eleven outreach coordinators and specialists, an Outreach Administrative Coordinator, and a variable number of interns.

This is a full-time, exempt position with the flexibility to work some weekends, evenings, and holidays to meet the demands of the job. The annual salary range for this position is $100K - $105K.

Skills/Qualifications

• Four or more years of experience in housing and homelessness services (e.g. outreach, rapid rehousing, housing navigation, etc.); extensive knowledge of Seattle and King County housing programs
• Three or more years of experience supervising paid staff
• Three or more years of experience managing programs; demonstrated experience evaluating and scaling programs
• Demonstrated understanding of trauma informed care, motivational interviewing, and harm reduction principles; MSW strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience managing complex grants and program budgets
• Demonstrated ability to work well with individuals: experiencing acute behavioral and physical health needs, fleeing family violence and/or sex trafficking, and/or experiencing substance use disorder while pregnant and/or parenting
• Demonstrated ability to work well with people from all racial, cultural, social, and economic backgrounds with various identities and experiences
• Strong ties and community connections to South Seattle and South King County preferred
• Demonstrated creative problem solving, conflict mediation, and crisis management skills
• Demonstrated knowledge of hospital and clinic system preferred
• Demonstrated ability to set appropriate boundaries and maintain professional demeanor in a high stress environment
• Highly motivated, self-started, resourceful, attention to detail, flexible, and possesses a positive attitude
• Ability to work well independently in a self-directed manner and as part of a team
• Exceptional time management and organizational skills, attention to detail, and proven ability to multitask, set priorities, and meet deadlines
• Strong customer service skills and ability to maintain strict confidentiality
• Proficiency with Microsoft Suite and HMIS; experience with Agency/Chasers preferred
• Strong reading, writing, speaking, and listening (communication) skills in English; additional fluency in Portuguese, Amharic, Spanish, Lingala, Oromo, French, Russian, Tigrinya, or Marshallese is preferred
• Legally able to drive in Washington State and flexibility to be mobile to meet emergent needs
• Willing to take and submit a TB test within thirty days of hire.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear
• The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, type, and reach with hands and arms; and requires the ability to occasionally push, pull, lift and/or carry supplies up to 25 pounds
• Work takes place in a social services environment where long periods of siting, working on a computer, walking to various work areas, going up and down stairs, and standing are required
• Travel to program sites and meetings outside the office and around the county are necessary
• Efforts like attention to detail, interacting with others in-person and through email, using critical thinking skills to strategize, develop and implement business plans, create and edit documents, listen and participate verbally at meetings

In compliance with the ADA Amendment Act, should you have a disability that requires assistance and/or reasonable accommodation with the job application process, please contact the Human Resources department.

Qualified individuals must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation. A qualified person with a disability may request a modification or adjustment to the job or work environment in order to meet the physical requirements of the position. Mary’s Place will attempt to satisfy requests as long as the accommodation needed is reasonable and no undue hardship to Mary’s Place would result.

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Mary's Place offers the following benefits to full-time director-level staff:

• Medical and dental insurance with the cost for core employee coverage paid at 100% by the company and competitive family rates
• Basic Life insurance of $50,000 at no cost to employee; option to buy additional coverage
• 403(b) plan with 50% employer match on the first 6% employee contribution. Eligible to participate upon hire; eligible for match after first year of employment
• Unlimited use ORCA pass for a small deduction per pay period
• 15 days paid time off (PTO) each calendar year
• 10 days of sick time each calendar year
• 10 days of flexible floating holidays each calendar year (accrued 40 hours on Jan. 1 and July 1 and pro-rated during first year)
• Employee Assistance Program

Strong reading, writing, speaking, and listening (communication) skills in English; additional fluency in Portuguese, Amharic, Spanish, Lingala, Oromo, French, Russian, Tigrinya, or Marshallese is preferred