We’re Hiring: Associate Director, Programs
Preferred Locations - Wider Los Angeles Metro Area, Wider New York Metro Area, Atlanta, Wider Bay Area - Work virtual for most of 2022
Point Source Youth is seeking to hire an experienced, energetic, and innovative Associate Director to support our rapid growth nationally and to scale-up meaningful solutions to end youth homelessness, with a focus on including Black, Indigenous, youth of color, non-binary, and LGBTQ+ youth.
We’re looking for exceptional talent to join our passionate, highly motivated, and rapidly growing team. This position requires a proactive, flexible, and entrepreneurial mindset suited to a dynamic organization that is continuing to experience rapid growth and transformation.
The Associate Director will lead a portfolio of work with local community partners working to end youth homelessness as well as key partners including HUD Technical Assistance (TA) Providers, Youth Demonstration Sites, and city and state government agencies. They will also lead national initiatives that meet their skill sets and interests including programming at our 4 annual conferences.
The Associate Director will ensure that an anti-racist framework is integrated into all programs work both internally and externally.
The Associate Director will lead a portfolio of Technical Assistance (TA) work and collaboration in support of our four interventions to end youth homelessness: Rapid Re-housing, Host Homes, Family & Kinship Strengthening, and Direct Cash Transfers. They will lead and be responsible for TA and training goals with key focuses on training for state and local governments, Continuum of Care Programs, and local and national service providers. They will also collaborate on our national research initiatives.
They will collaborate on and lead with the team, documentation, definition, and best practice development in continued support of our four interventions including developing and leading national and local training around them and presenting and leading sessions at our four conferences.
* Candidates with lived experience of homelessness will be prioritized.
How to Apply
Please send a resume and responses to the three questions below to brittany@pointsourceyouth.org with Associate Director Application in the subject line of your email. We look forward to hearing from you!
1. Please share your experience applying an anti-racist, anti-oppressive framework to your work.
2. How do you center youth voice in your work?
3. What are the strategies you use in community work to ensure meaningful collaboration?
Key Responsibilities
Responsible for applying an intersectional and anti-racist lens to all work that lifts up and centers Black, Indigenous, People of Color, non-binary, and trans youth, as well as LGBTQ+ youth.
Provide a strong, collaborative, and intentional, day-to-day collaborative presence; support a collaborative, results, and rest driven culture.
Co-create processes, documentation, training, leadership, team support, and management activities to collaboratively achieve our community, technical assistance, and training goals.
Strong background in and enjoys writing, editing, and creating program documents.
Expand a portfolio of regions, training, and technical assistance partners meeting a co-defined revenue goal for revenue/training/technical assistance support annually.
Support the creation of and updates to existing handbooks, including Rural, Direct Cash Transfers, Host Homes, Rapid Re-housing, and Family and Kinship Strengthening, Youth Engagement.
Support our continued collaboration with 50+ partners in 50+ communities and work to substantially grow and expand our partnerships to end youth homelessness.
Work with the Director of Development to provide program details for major grant proposals and reports.
Work in collaboration to successfully launch, grow, and support new programs that center youth experiencing homelessness as their foundation.
Work collaboratively with our Youth Advisory Council and work to ensure they are effectively, regularly, and collaboratively integrated and supported in our program work and activities.
Work to ensure that authentic youth engagement is at the forefront of all of our work.
Ensure that our four Symposia on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness (Rural, National, West, and South) continue to meet and exceed our conference attendance, youth engagement, and resource creation goals.
Work to ensure that our Symposia result in expanded, deepened, and new programs work locally and nationally.
Co-lead efforts to create internal and external repositories for program and TA documents that meet the needs of staff, youth, and partners and that are updated at least quarterly and shared with current and future partners and on our communication channels.
Work in collaboration with the VP of Communications and Strategy and the communications team to ensure that we are communicating our best practices, key learnings, innovations, and contributions in both our local partner work, how we support local communities, our TA work, and our youth work.
Work in collaboration with the VP and Director of Programs to ensure impeccable programs and best practices for technical assistance.
Work to expand, grow, develop, and deepen our four core interventions to end youth homelessness: rapid re-housing, direct cash transfers, host homes, and family and kinship strengthening.
Demonstrate local and national leadership.
Qualifications
Exemplary experience working to end youth homelessness, with lived experience of homelessness prioritized.
Exemplary experience applying an intersectional, anti-racist, and equity lens to our work that lifts up and centers QTBIPOC communitIes and youth.
Significant experience of managing and leading programs in youth spaces.
Experience managing a team.
Proven systems thinker.
Ability to excel in a startup culture.
Collaborative, intentional, and understands the importance of rest.
Experience with growing programs and working collaboratively.
Relevant lived experience is both highly valued and considered a key part of an applicant's experience.
Demonstrated commitment to social justice frameworks including race, gender, and economic justice and equity.
Deep and proven creative problem-solving skills with the ability to be flexible and adapt to different personalities, work styles, and a growing, changing organization.
Proven ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders including high-level government officials, policymakers, funders, Executive Directors, frontline staff and case managers, and youth with lived experiences of homelessness.
Extraordinary attention to detail, time management skills, critical thinking abilities, and a proven ability to apply those skills to the teams they manage.
Passionate about direct cash transfer, universal basic income, and other direct payment programming.
Excellent relationship-building skills.
Excellent writing skills.
The ability, on occasion, to work evenings, weekends, and irregular hours.
Travel may be required in 2022 and thereafter, to partner sites and in support of our four annual Symposia (Rural, National, Southern, and West).
Ability to work effectively in a wide variety of geographic, political, and cultural settings.