Apply for the Community Strategic Team

The National Alliance to End Homelessness is searching for nine (9) leaders with lived experience of homelessness to participate on the Community Strategic Team (CST).  The team will do convening, creative, collaborative, and conference work that aligns with the organization’s lived experience/equity strategic plans. The CST will partner with the Alliance according to its engagement plan within internal teams, external partners, and other lived experience leaders who are doing work within their own communities to prevent and end homelessness.

Purpose Statement

The National Alliance to End Homelessness’ lived experience leadership work will support and guide lived experience leaders from different places around the nation by partnering with the Alliance around a developmental, design, dissemination, and deployment approach.  The Alliance and the lived experience leaders will work together to create a shared vision toward a collective movement that prevents and ends homelessness across the country. With a national platform and wide reach, the Alliance will serve as the lived experience leaders’ national partner, working within a strategic infrastructure while expanding the work to many corners of the country.   

The Alliance will thoughtfully create meaningful spaces by incorporating equity and belonging perspectives as the core component of the work, ensuring all voices are amplified, building a network of lived experience leaders, and ensuring all leaders have a space and place to be heard. The Alliance will help ensure lived experience leaders’ work is forward-facing, but more importantly aligned with the needs of respective communities. Together, we envision a world where our lived experience leaders can dream big and be purpose-driven to do incredible work, and make narrative changes to reach the goal of preventing and ending homelessness across the country.

Requirements

Due to the nature of the required work as a Community Strategic Team member, the Alliance will be looking for lived experience Leaders who:

• are actively doing work with an existing group or individually in their own community;
• have skills to support and guide the success of other lived experience leaders and groups;
• are able to jump in and understand the advanced aspects around:  developing, designing, disseminating and deploying project base work;
• have worked within an equity, inclusion, diversity, and belonging background and framework; and
• have dedicated and committed to innovative solutions around preventing and ending homelessness