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Are you an accomplished non-profit leader who has driven the strategic process and implementation planning for a significant mission led organization?
Boston-based Pine Street Inn partners with individuals experiencing homelessness to help them move from the streets and shelter to a home and assists formerly unhoused individuals in retaining housing. They provide street outreach, emergency services, supportive housing, permanent housing, job training and connections to employment. Pine Street Inn tirelessly advocates for collaborative solutions to end homelessness. Their mission is to end homelessness by making permanent housing a reality for all.
Reporting to the Chief of Programs, the Vice President for Strategy & Planning provides strategic direction, program development, quality improvement and evaluation for Pine Street Inn. This critical position will contribute as an active member of the Program Leadership Team by identifying process enhancement strategies and developing programs and services that reflect Pine Street Inn’s progressive and innovative approach to ending homelessness.
This important role will lead an exciting new department within Pine Street Inn programs with anticipated growth and supervisory responsibilities. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrable leadership track record in successfully driving change within a human services setting. They will have led the development, implementation, and monitoring of a comprehensive strategic plan and be well versed in funding management, resource allocation, contract monitoring, and compliance alignment.
Major Responsibilities
- Drive Pine Street Inn strategic planning and facilitate program development with programs, peers, and leadership team while continuously identifying opportunities for improvement
- Assess various programs with an eye on creation of new programming and improvements to current programming to ensure they support the agency’s strategic goals and reflect industry best practices
- Support teams through organizational and programmatic change while promoting a high performance and continuous learning environment including developing future leaders
- Facilitate roll-out of new contracts and programming within the organization, ensuring continuous monitoring throughout the lifecycle of a program or contract
- Oversee, facilitate, and develop processes for program evaluation in concert with compliance.
- Monitor progress toward short and long-term financial objectives including resource utilization, supporting program departments where utilization is a challenge
- At the direction or in the absence of the Chief of Programs, take on additional responsibility to provide leadership support and coverage across the program portfolio
Preferred Qualifications
- Progressive leadership track record for a significant non-profit and/or human service organization
- Proven strategic and program planning experience
- Demonstrated ability to manage contracts with a keen understanding of compliance
- Successful experience leading teams through significant change
- Creative, facilitative, supportive, and solution-oriented approach
- Thrive in a culture that is fast-paced, results-oriented and compassionate towards their guests and residents
- Hybrid role – requires three days weekly in PSI office or in field
Company Background
Pine Street Inn began its journey in 1969, offering a safe alternative to the streets of Boston to approximately 200 individuals suffering from alcoholism. Since then, their comprehensive programs and services have expanded to include housing, emergency services, and workforce development to support more than 2,000 individuals each day.
The work of Pine Street Inn is carried out by nearly 600 employees who uphold the values of community, teamwork, accountability and respect, committed to meeting their mission of ending homelessness.
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