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SUMMER INTERNSHIPS

POSITION: Summer Intern  
CLASSIFICATION: Full-time, temporary, non-exempt  
DATES: June 5 – August 11 (with some flexibility on start and end dates) 
LOCATION: Washington, DC (hybrid with up to two days remote) 
HOURLY RATE: $17.00 an hour  

The National Alliance to End Homelessness (the Alliance) is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. The Alliance uses data and research to identify solutions to homelessness; works with Congress and the Administration to support and advance these solutions; and helps communities to implement the solutions. Recognizing the disproportionality of people of color who experience homelessness and the disparities that cause this, it undertakes its work in the context of achieving racial equity. 

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

What we are looking for: 

The Alliance is looking for three talented  Summer Interns committed to helping end homelessness through federal policy and improved programs and practice. Special areas of interest are unsheltered homelessness and the achievement of race equity in the homelessness system. We seek candidates with high energy, excellent organizational and communications skills, and an interest in homelessness and housing. Successful interns will value close collaboration with team members but will also be self-motivated and able to work independently. 

What you will do: 

Summer Interns will assist in projects across policy, research, capacity building, and communications as well as support efforts around the Alliance’s National Conference on Ending Homelessness in July. Candidates should indicate which of those areas are of most interest to them and should describe the experience and skills they would bring to projects in those interest areas. 

Responsibilities will vary based on the candidate’s interests and experience, as well as the areas the Alliance is working on at the time: 

  • Communications drafting and content generation: This may include assisting in drafting and editing policy briefs and blogs, newsletters, donor and other communications, and website, conference, and social media content. 
  • Conducting research: This may include research into existing or proposed legislation or policies, research into best practices for homelessness response services, or research on media placements or media tracking tasks. 
  • Conducting and compiling interviews: This may include interviewing local or national stakeholders for policy or communications purposes and conducting interviews with consumers who have experienced homelessness. 
  • Supporting staff projects: This may include administrative tasks on projects developed by the communications, policy or capacity building teams like drafting documents and spreadsheets, data entry and database organizing, helping to arrange conference workshops, and attending (with and without Alliance staff) various opportunities for professional development, including policy forums, Congressional briefings, community meetings, and others.  

We are looking for candidates with:  

  • Demonstrated interest in at least one of the following areas: public policy analysis, communications, and relationship building with individuals and groups, all focused on homelessness and poverty issues. 
  • Demonstrated experience and ability to recognize and respond to the ways race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity intersect to further promote racial equity and social justice. 
  • Demonstrated interest in working with marginalized or vulnerable populations (e.g., LGBTQ, people with disabilities, people experiencing homelessness, etc.). 
  • Previous research, data, and/or outreach experience. 
  • Strong professional verbal and written communication skills. 
  • Ability to pursue own projects and meet deadlines with limited supervision. 
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office. 
  • Proficiency with digital technologies (for interns on communications projects), including video editing and graphic editing is a plus. 
  • Candidates with prior life experience or work experience in homeless or low-income communities, communities of color, and/or LGBTQ communities are encouraged to apply. 

What we can offer you: 

The Alliance is strong, flexible team of professionals that works collaboratively to achieve its mission of preventing and ending homelessness in the nation. We offer interns a supportive work environment in which they receive opportunities to contribute to and direct activities that align with their learning goals in the pursuit of solutions to a national social problem.  

Additional benefits include: 

  • 3 paid vacation days and 2 paid sick leave days during the 10-week period of June 5-August 11 (leave pro-rated based on start and end dates)  
  • Paid Federal Holidays 

How to Apply: 

Email resume, cover letter, and a short writing sample (no more than three pages, can be an excerpt from a larger work) to jobs@naeh.org. Use “Summer Internship” in subject line of the email. Applications will be accepted through April 30, 2023, and interviews will be granted on a rolling basis.  

The Alliance is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. 

PROGRAM AND POLICY ANALYST

POSITION: Program and Policy Analyst
SUPERVISED BY: VP for Programs and Policy
SUPERVISION EXERCISED: None
CLASSIFICATION: Full-time, regular, exempt
LOCATION: Washington, DC
SALARY RANGE: $66,700-$100,100

The National Alliance to End Homelessness (the Alliance) is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. The Alliance uses data and research to identify solutions to homelessness; works with Congress and the Administration to support and advance these solutions; and helps communities to implement the solutions. Recognizing the disproportionality of people of color who experience homelessness and the disparities that cause this, it undertakes its work in the context of achieving racial equity.

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

What we are looking for:

The Alliance is looking for a talented Program and Policy Analyst committed to helping end homelessness through federal policy and improved programs and practice. Special areas of interest are unsheltered homelessness and the achievement of race equity in the homelessness system. We seek someone with high energy, excellent organizational and communications skills, and a grounding knowledge of homelessness and housing. A successful Analyst will value close collaboration with team members but will also be self-motivated and able to work independently.

What you will do:

The Program and Policy Team, of which the Analyst is a member, focuses on federal policy. Together with the entire Alliance staff, the Analyst uses research, data, and local experience to discover the best solutions to homelessness. The Analyst then collaborates with other national and local partner organizations to build federal policy that supports those solutions. This includes interacting with Congress and with relevant agencies of the Administration. They then share these solutions with the field, in collaboration with other Alliance staff.

A primary area of focus for the Analyst will be developing an informed federal strategy on unsheltered homelessness, including housing, services, employment and other relevant areas. The Analyst will also work on veteran homelessness, employment, LGBTQ+ issues, the feeder systems into homelessness (criminal justice and foster care systems, for example) and other issues as they arise. Achieving racial equity will be addressed in all activities.

Tasks will include:

  • Use data and research and work with other Alliance staff to identify places where homelessness is being reduced and to understand why, particularly with respect to unsheltered homelessness.
  • Build relationships with leaders in the field to identify the most successful strategies in the areas of unsheltered homelessness, race equity, and other areas as addressed.
  • Develop federal policy recommendations and proposals in support of strategies that reduce homelessness. This requires understanding of current federal homelessness, and mainstream programs and the federal administrative and legislative processes.
  • Advance the Alliance’s federal policy recommendations, and those of other organizations that it supports:
    • Develop relationships and work with other national organizations with shared or overlapping agendas;
    • Develop relationships and work with local homeless systems and providers and local and state government partners to understand their needs and to advance policy goals;
    • Develop relationships and work with members of the Administration with responsibility for helping homeless people;
    • Work with Members of Congress and their staffs and committees to educate them about homelessness and its solutions, in cooperation with the Alliance’s Congressional relations staff;
    • Create information and communications vehicles that inform all parties about the nature of homelessness and its policy solutions; and
    • Help keep all partners updated on federal policy developments and impacts.
  • Assist in educating local communities and states about how to implement and take advantage of federal policy to expand and improve effective strategies for reducing homelessness.
  • Maintain nonpartisanship at all times, and work on a bipartisan basis.
  • Participate in developing content and speakers for Alliance conferences and events.
  • Contribute to Alliance publications and website.
  • Represent the Alliance at meetings and conferences as appropriate.
  • Other duties as assigned by the Vice President for Programs and Policy and CEO.

What a successful candidate will need:

Education and experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
  • Three to five years relevant experience (homelessness, health and health care, human services, policy, etc.)
  • Graduate degree a plus

Knowledge and skills:

  • 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, sexual orientation, and gender identity intersect to further promote racial equity and social justice.
  • Demonstrated experience and ability in working with marginalized or vulnerable populations (e.g., LGBTQ, people with disabilities, people experiencing homelessness, etc.)
  • Working knowledge of health care policy
  • Working knowledge of federal poverty and preferably homeless programs
  • Working knowledge of federal and Congressional procedures
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, initiate, and implement tasks
  • Ability to work independently

What we can offer you:

The Alliance is strong, flexible team of professionals that works collaboratively to achieve its mission of preventing and ending homelessness in the nation. We offer a supportive work environment in which staff has both the responsibility and opportunity to pursue and achieve solutions to a national social problem. In addition to an environment in which every member of the staff is valued and has the opportunity to contribute, the Alliance offers the following benefits.

  • Hybrid work environment. Currently, three days remote and two eight-hour days in the office each week. As the Alliance’s hybrid work schedule evolves, candidates should anticipate that the schedule will change.
  • Competitive salary
  • Employer supported health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 403(b) retirement plan
  • Paid vacation, personal, and sick leave and a generous holiday schedule.

How to Apply:

Email resume, cover letter, and two writing samples to jobs@naeh.org. Use Program and Policy Analyst in subject line of the email.

The Alliance is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

SENIOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SPECIALIST

POSITION: Senior Technical Assistance Specialist
SUPERVISED BY: Director, Center for Capacity Building
SUPERVISION EXERCISED: None
CLASSIFICATION: Full-time, regular, exempt
LOCATION: Washington, DC
SALARY RANGE: $78,700-$118,100

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 seek a Senior Technical Assistance Specialist to contribute to the impacts and outcomes of our Center for Capacity Building.

The Alliance Center for Capacity Building (the Center) is a mission-driven division of the organization that helps cities, counties, states and nonprofits move more quickly toward an end to homelessness. It does this by working with them and with people experiencing homelessness to implement evidence-based best practices, and to innovate in new and emerging areas of concern. The Center works collaboratively with public, private and nonprofit sector partners. It focuses on key areas of system and program performance including: 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 special needs of LGBTQ people and racial and ethnic minorities, and the particular strategies needed to address their distinct experiences of homelessness.

The Center provides customized consultation services, remote and on-site technical assistance and trainings, online learning, and learning collaborative environments. It is research-informed, works to center 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 also 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 researches policies and practices employed by successful communities, and then aggregates and translates this research into technical assistance and training curricula, including online trainings. The Senior Technical Assistance Specialist will collaborate with other Alliance program teams, national and local partner organizations, and other consultants and technical assistance providers in this work.

Tasks will include:

  • In collaboration with Center for Capacity Building team members and our Online Learning Manager, provide remote and on-site training, technical assistance, and consulting services to communities working to prevent and end homelessness. Tasks may include the development and coordination of, and participation in, technical assistance delivery; the drafting and dissemination of reports; the creation of remote, on-site, and online training and guidance; the development of tools, tool-kits and other materials for training, technical assistance, and implementation; and other documents and resources.
  • Develop and lead projects that align with the Alliance’s priorities, 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 stakeholder 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 by the Center for Capacity Building Director.

What a successful candidate will need:

Education and experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred.
  • Minimum of five years of experience working on homelessness or related issues in nationally and/or within a community, and/or providing training or technical assistance.

Knowledge and skills:

Required:

  • Demonstrated commitment to having an impact on homelessness, poverty or related issues.
  • Demonstrated experience and ability to recognize and respond to the ways race and other identities intersect, and commitment to finding ways to promote racial equity and social justice.
  • Demonstrated experience and ability in working with marginalized populations (e.g., LGBTQ, people with disabilities, people experiencing homelessness, 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 numerous projects simultaneously, manage project budgets and meet deadlines.
  • Demonstrated ability to provide technical assistance and trainings to various types of stakeholder groups.
  • Demonstrated ability to provide communities with strategic planning and implementation guidance on system-related homelessness issues.

Preferred:

  • Tech-savvy and familiar with learning management systems such as Canvas.
  • Online learning content development.

What we can offer you:

The Alliance is strong, flexible team of professionals who work collaboratively to achieve our mission of preventing and ending homelessness in the nation. We offer a supportive work environment in which staff has both the responsibility and opportunity to pursue and achieve solutions to a national social problem. In addition to an environment in which every member of the staff is valued and has the opportunity to contribute, the Alliance offers the following benefits.

  • Hybrid work environment. Currently three days telework and two eight-hour days in the office each week. As the Alliance’s hybrid work schedule evolves, candidates should anticipate that the schedule may change.
  • Competitive salary
  • Employer supported health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
  • 403(b) retirement plan
  • Paid vacation, personal, and sick leave and a generous holiday schedule

How to Apply:

Email resume, cover letter, and two brief and relevant writing samples to jobs@naeh.org. Please use “Senior Technical Assistance Specialist” in subject line of your email.

The Alliance is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

Vice President, Programs and Policy

POSITION: Vice President, Programs and Policy
SUPERVISED BY: Chief Policy Officer
SUPERVISED EXERCISED: Senior Fellows (2), National Field Director, Program and Policy Analyst, Senior Congressional Affairs Manager
CLASSIFICATION: Full-time, regular, exempt
LOCATION: Washington, DC
SALARY RANGE: $119,135-$178,700

The National Alliance to End Homelessness (the Alliance) is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. The Alliance uses data and research to identify solutions to homelessness; works with Congress and the Administration to support and advance these solutions; and helps communities to implement the solutions. Recognizing the disproportionality of people of color who experience homelessness and the disparities that cause this, it undertakes its work in the context of achieving racial equity.

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

Who we are looking for:

The Alliance is looking for a talented Vice President of Programs and Policy (VP, Policy) to lead the Alliance’s Policy Team, which includes staff that conduct grassroots advocacy, policy analysis, Congressional Affairs and who have specialized areas of policy focus. This team serves as the organization’s internal subject matter policy experts and as a national resource on homelessness and housing related policy. As an evidence-focused and mission-oriented organization, the Alliance relies on the Policy Team to work with internal and external partners to translate needs, innovations and challenges from the field to sound policy and program recommendations for a variety of audiences including practitioners, elected leaders and the media. The Policy Team informs and is informed through close collaboration with teams across the organization, and the VP, Policy serves on the Alliance’s Senior Team that implements the organization’s strategic vision.

What you will do:

The VP, Policy develops, coordinates and leads the implementation of the organization’s policy and advocacy agenda and supports the delivery of contract/grant deliverables as needed. This includes supervision of Policy Team staff and contractors and support of the Alliance’s Leadership Council.

The VP, Policy is an expert in a variety of policy areas that relate to homelessness including housing, employment, behavioral health, corrections, child welfare, poverty and race. The VP, Policy maintains a solid and accessible base of information on evidence-based approaches, Congressional Affairs and regional issues that relate to the Alliance’s work. They work with homelessness practitioners, people with lived expertise, and leaders from around the country. They ensure that knowledge about homelessness and its solutions is responsive to active policy and practice questions, and that information is readily available to the media.

The VP, Policy ensures that the Policy Team works collaboratively with staff across the organization to enhance and broaden the Alliance’s ability to effectively influence public policy at the state, local and national levels based on evidence. The VP, Policy is an effective manager who can confidently and credibly interact with various types of stakeholders – press, partner organizations, opinion leaders, people with lived expertise, etc.

Essential duties and responsibilities will include:

  • Participate as a key member of the Alliance’s Senior Leadership Team, which is responsible for the implementation of the organization’s strategic vision.
  • Collaborate with the Alliance’s Senior Leadership Team and lead the development of a policy agenda that enhances the Alliance’s ability to effectively influence public policy at the state, local and national levels.
  • Implement an Alliance policy agenda to addresses current issues/innovations/challenges in the field.
  • Assume a leadership role in the national housing/homelessness policy community, including supporting the Alliance’s Leadership Council and participating as a thought partner with relevant coalitions.
  • Serve as a thought leader within the Alliance and in the field, helping to assess trends, develop Alliance positions, and work with policymakers and practitioners. This includes relevant committees of the National Race Equity Working Group.
  • Ensure that the Policy Team effectively collaborates with other internal operating divisions to foster cross-team learning and dialogue about policy and advocacy priorities.
  • Participate fully with the Communications Department of the Alliance to ensure that all knowledge developed by the Policy Team is broadly communicated to stakeholders through summaries, infographics, and other means.
  • The VP, Policy is expected to work closely and collaboratively with other Alliance staff members.
    • Assist as needed in fundraising for the Alliance.
    • To the extent relevant fulfill funder requirements and monitor grant deliverables.
    • Help lead the planning process for Alliance conferences, and develop workshops for the conferences.
    • Contribute articles, blog posts and other written materials to the Alliance Online News, website, and social media outlets.
    • Assist in content planning and implementation of any Alliance events.
  • Present Alliance positions and strategic priorities at conferences and to external stakeholders.
  • Effectively oversee or supervise Policy team staff (including subordinate managers) and Alliance contractors.
  • Participate in other responsibilities as determined by the CEO and CPO.

What a successful candidate will need:

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in relevant field
  • Seven to 10 years’ experience working in homelessness or homelessness related fields, or lived experience of homelessness or related systems.
  • Five to seven years’ experience supervising and leading teams.
  • Experience developing and implementing policy, advocacy and/or legislative initiatives.
  • Prior Federal government or national nonprofit experience

Knowledge and skills:

  • Demonstrated commitment to the goal of ending homelessness
  • Demonstrated experience and ability to recognize and respond to the ways race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity intersect to further promote racial equity and social justice.
  • Demonstrated understanding (including lived expertise) of cultural values and norms of various communities impacted by homelessness, particularly historically marginalized people, families, youth, veterans and people experiencing chronic homelessness.
  • Demonstrated experience and ability in working with marginalized or vulnerable populations (e.g., LGBTQ, people with disabilities, people experiencing homelessness, etc.,).
  • Effective communication skills and ability to advocate effectively on key policy issues.
  • Demonstrated personal initiative
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

What we can offer you:

The Alliance is a strong, flexible team of professionals that works collaboratively to achieve its mission of preventing and ending homelessness in the nation. We offer a supportive work environment in which staff has both the responsibility and opportunity to pursue and achieve solutions to a national social problem. In addition to an environment in which every staff member is valued and has the opportunity to contribute, the Alliance offers the following benefits.

  • Hybrid work environment. Currently three days of telework and two eight-hour days in the office each week. As the Alliance’s hybrid work schedule evolves, candidates should anticipate that the schedule may change.
  • Competitive salary
  • Employer-supported health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 403(b) retirement plan
  • Paid vacation, personal, and sick leave and a generous holiday schedule.

How to Apply:

Email resume, cover letter, and two writing samples to jobs@naeh.org. Use VP, Policy in subject line of email.

The Alliance is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

Director, Lived Experience Innovation

POSITION: Director, Lived Experience Innovation
SUPERVISED BY: Chief Equity Officer
CLASSIFICATION: Full-time, regular, exempt
LOCATION: Washington, DC (local hybrid)
SALARY RANGE: $72,505-$108,810

The National Alliance to End Homelessness (the Alliance) is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. The Alliance uses data and research to identify solutions to homelessness; works with Congress and the Administration to support and advance these solutions; and helps communities to implement the solutions. Recognizing the disproportionality of people of color who experience homelessness and the disparities that cause this, it undertakes its work in the context of achieving racial equity.

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

What we are looking for:

The Alliance is looking for a talented Director of Lived Experience Innovation (DLEI) committed to helping end homelessness through the design and implementation of strategic innovations that build power and opportunity for people with lived experience of homelessness and rapidly advance the goals of the Alliance. The DLEI will lead organizational efforts to center lived experience in the Alliance’s work with a focus on racial equity and housing justice. This role is instrumental in our efforts to share power through meaningful partnership with people with lived expertise and create lasting structures that support our advocacy efforts. We seek someone who can manage multiple priorities, has strong relationship building skills with diverse stakeholders (non-profit organizations, local government and system partners, advocates, and community groups) , and has as a creative and self-motivated spirit.

What you will do:

The DLEI will work with the CEqO and other members of the Senior Leadership Team to develop internal capacity/practices and externally facing initiatives that support partnership and co-creation with people with lived experience in all areas of the Alliance’s work, including policy, advocacy, research, equity and inclusion, and community-based capacity building.

Tasks will include:

  • Develop and implement the Alliance’s plan to partner with people with lived experience of homelessness.
  • Act as a key member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team.
  • Serve as a thought leader within the Alliance and in the field to assess trends, develop Alliance positions, and work with policymakers and practitioners. Identify opportunities to create new solutions toward preventing and ending homelessness and develop mechanisms and partnerships to pilot and iterate new ideas.
  • Evaluate and initiate changes to the Alliance’s programs, policies, workflow and values to infuse lived experience into the organization’s culture and operations.
  • Lead the Alliance’s efforts to include people with lived expertise and experience of homelessness at our national conferences as attendees, speakers and content co-creators. Manage the conference experience for our attendees with lived expertise.
  • Lead the design, implementation and administration of the Alliance’s Consumer Advisory Board (CAB). Provide operational support to the CAB and other existing initiatives.
  • Work closely with the Policy Team/Field Operations to assist in building/maintaining a significant cohort of advocates with lived experience of homelessness and related advocacy agenda.
  • In partnership with the Senior Leadership Team, design and implement innovative strategic initiatives.
  • Discover new partnership opportunities to strengthen and broaden collective impact, focusing on organizations led by people with lived experience and people of color.
  • Participate with the Communications Department of the Alliance to ensure that lived experience is reflected in our internal and external materials. Elevate the authentic narratives of people with lived experience and create media and communication channels to share more widely in partnership with the marketing and communications team.
  • The DLEI is expected to work closely and collaboratively with other Alliance staff members.
    • Assist as needed in fundraising for the Alliance.
    • To the extent relevant fulfill funder requirements and monitor grant deliverables.
    • Help lead the planning process for Alliance conferences and develop workshops for the conferences.
    • Contribute articles, blog posts and other written materials to the Alliance Online News, website, and social media outlets.
    • Assist in content planning and implementation of any Alliance events.
  • Present the Alliance’s work in this area at conferences and to external stakeholders.
  • Oversee or supervise relevant Alliance and contracted staff.
  • Participate in other responsibilities as determined by the CEO and CEqO.

What a successful candidate will need:

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Lived experience of homelessness, housing instability and/or with systems related to homelessness and housing instability
  • Minimum five years of experience in relevant field. Experience may include internships and/or other volunteer positions
  • Prior Federal/local government, technical assistance, or nonprofit experience

Knowledge and skills:

  • Demonstrated commitment to the goal of ending homelessness
  • Demonstrated experience and ability to recognize and respond to the ways race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity intersect to further promote racial equity and social justice
  • Demonstrated experience and ability in working with marginalized or vulnerable populations (e.g., LGBTQ, people with disabilities, people experiencing homelessness, etc.).
  • Demonstrated personal initiative
  • Strong organizational and relationship-building skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

What we can offer you:

The Alliance is strong, flexible team of professionals that works collaboratively to achieve its mission of preventing and ending homelessness in the nation. We offer a supportive work environment in which staff has both the responsibility and opportunity to pursue and achieve solutions to a national social problem. In addition to an environment in which every member of the staff is valued and has the opportunity to contribute, the Alliance offers the following benefits.

  • Hybrid work environment. Currently, three days remote and two eight-hour days in the office each week. As theAlliance’s hybrid work schedule evolves, candidates should anticipate that the schedule will change.
  • Competitive salary
  • Employer supported health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 403(b) retirement plan
  • Paid vacation, personal, and sick leave and a generous holiday schedule.

How to Apply:

Email resume, cover letter to jobs@naeh.org. Use DLEI in subject line of email. The Alliance is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.