Senior Technical Assistance Specialist

Candidates must live in the following states to be considered: Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, or California.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness (Alliance) is an influential national nonprofit devoted to finding and advancing solutions to homelessness. Our team is focused on making an impact. We are seeking a Senior Technical Assistance Specialist to contribute to the impacts and outcomes of the Alliance’s Center for Capacity Building (the Center).

The Center helps communities implement policies and practices that are demonstrated to prevent and end homelessness. In addition to its external facing role of working alongside communities in the implementation of evidence-based approaches, the Center acts as the Alliance’s ears and eyes on the ground and is responsible for identifying emerging trends, challenges or innovations and relaying pertinent information about those circumstances to the Alliance’s leadership and other operating divisions.

The Center works collaboratively with public, private and nonprofit sector partners. It focuses on key areas of system and program performance including data informed outcomes and decision making, diversion, outreach, coordinated assessment and entry, emergency shelter and services, self-resolution, rapid re-housing, permanent supportive housing, and housing subsidy. It covers the full spectrum of homeless subpopulations including children and youth, families, veterans, individual adults, chronically homeless people, people who are unsheltered, and those with disabilities. It is always attentive to the unique needs of LGBTQ people and racial and ethnic minorities, and the specific strategies needed to address their distinct experiences of homelessness.

The Center provides customized consultation services, remote and on-site technical assistance and training, online learning, and learning collaborative environments. It is research-informed, centers race equity in all its activities, and always pursues the goal of reducing the number of people who experience homelessness.

If you are committed to helping the nation SOLVE the problem of homelessness, consider joining the Alliance.

What we are looking for:

The Alliance seeks a talented Senior Technical Assistance Specialist committed to helping communities end homelessness through the adoption of policies and practices that have demonstrated effectiveness. We seek someone with high energy, excellent organizational and communications skills, and a grounding knowledge of homelessness and its solutions. A successful Senior Technical Assistance Specialist will value close collaboration with team members and be self-motivated and able to work independently.

What you will do:

The Senior Technical Assistance Specialist will engage in the development, planning, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of diverse capacity building projects. The Senior Technical Assistance Specialist uses research, data, and local experience to discover and implement responsive solutions to homelessness. The Senior Technical Assistance Specialist will research policies and practices employed by successful communities, and then aggregate and translate this research into technical assistance and training curricula, including online training. The Senior Technical Assistance Specialist will collaborate with other Alliance program teams, people with lived experience/expertise of homelessness, national and local partner organizations, and other consultants and technical assistance providers in this work.

 In collaboration with Center for Capacity Building team members including our Online Learning Manager, the Senior Technical Assistance Specialist will:

• Provide remote and on-site training, technical assistance, and consulting services to communities working to prevent and end homelessness.
• Develop, coordinate, and participate in technical assistance delivery.
• Draft and disseminate reports; create remote, on-site, and online training and guidance; develop tools, toolkits and other materials for training, technical assistance, and implementation; and author other documents and resources.
• Develop and lead projects that align with the Alliance’s priorities and strategic plan, accomplish the Center’s annual goals, and demonstrate sustainable outcomes.
• Assist in Center related grant writing and the development of client proposal and contracts.
• Evaluate the community-level impacts of projects, technical assistance, training, and consulting services.
• Provide clients with planning, logistical support, collection and analysis of community data, and collaborative engagement.
• Develop, deliver and evaluate training materials.
• Research and advance effective policies and practices used by communities to reduce homelessness.
• Incorporate up-to-date research, messaging, and community-level data into training materials.
• Work closely and collaboratively with other Alliance staff members.
• To the extent relevant fulfill funder requirements and monitor grant deliverables.
• Participate in planning and implementation of Alliance conferences.
• Design or assist in creation of on-line courses for the Center for Learning.
• Fulfill other duties as determined in collaboration with the Vice President, Training and Technical Assistance.

 What a successful candidate will need:

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher preferred.
• Equivalent work experience combined with lived experience of homelessness will be considered.
• 5+ of direct experience working in the homelessness field or as a Continuum of Care Lead, and/or providing training or technical assistance.

Knowledge and skills

Required:

• Demonstrated knowledge of Housing First philosophy.
• Demonstrated commitment to having an impact on homelessness, poverty or related issues.
• Demonstrated experience and ability to recognize and respond to the ways race, ethnicity, and other identities intersect, and commitment to finding ways to further racial equity and social justice.
• Demonstrated experience and ability in working with people who identify as LGBTQ, have disabilities, are experiencing homelessness, have a different socioeconomic status, etc.
• Demonstrated analytical, interpersonal, presentation, and written and verbal communications skills.
• Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, initiate, and implement tasks.
• Demonstrated ability to work well both independently and within a multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously, manage project budgets and meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to provide training and technical assistance to various types of audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to provide communities with strategic planning and implementation guidance on system-related homelessness issues.
• Demonstrated ability to use remote collaboration tools to coordinate with team members, engage communities, and other Alliance collaborators.

 Desired:

• Experience using best practices for training adult learners.
• Online learning content development.
• Experience with strategies to address unsheltered and rural homelessness.

 Please note: Studies have shown that women and Black, indigenous, peopleof color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At the Alliance, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace– so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles