Associate Director

The posting, as Impact Justice wrote it

About Impact Justice

Impact Justice advances safety, justice, and opportunity through boundary-breaking work that honors and empowers people and is changing expectations about what we can accomplish together. We imagine, build, and scale innovations, leverage research and other knowledge to connect the desire for change with informed action, and work to shift the narrative so that decision-makers and the public understand what’s at stake and what’s possible.

About The Housing Lab

Impact Justice's Housing Lab nurtures and invests in innovative, proven solutions to strengthen support systems for people leaving prison, reduce recidivism, and minimize housing insecurity. The Lab's flagship program, the Homecoming Project (THP), uses a shared housing model to pair people returning home from prison with welcoming community residents (hosts) who have a spare room. THP pays each host a monthly stipend to house a participant for up to six months, while every participant is paired with a Community Navigator who connects them to the resources, supports, and wraparound services needed for successful reentry. Since launching in the Bay Area in 2018, this innovative reentry housing model has housed over 250 returning individuals and now operates in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Francisco County, and Los Angeles County.

The Housing Lab pursues two core priorities: matching formerly incarcerated people with safe, stable housing through the groundbreaking Homecoming Project in California; and, through technical assistance and training programs, helping communities across the country improve housing outcomes via shared housing — offering seed funding, expert coaching, advisor connections, follow-on funding opportunities, and consulting.

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Who You Are

You are an experienced people manager and operator who knows how to run a team. You have led multi-role, direct-service teams—ideally across more than one site—and you are energized by the work of setting clear expectations, coaching staff, building systems that make delivery consistent, and keeping a growing program organized and on track. You have an ethos of social justice, racial justice, community, and mutuality. You have a strong commitment to ending the criminalization of Black, Indigenous, Latine, and other people of color, financially disenfranchised people, and other marginalized groups. You have an orientation and belief that criminal justice involvement should not be an impediment to housing, employment, wellness, and personal growth opportunities.

This position serves as second-in-command to the Director, implementing program strategy and running the team's day-to-day operations. While the Director holds primary responsibility for external partnerships, fundraising, and expansion strategy, you will own the day-to-day: supervising staff, managing projects and work plans, leading internal communications, and using data an
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ried position. The candidate should be located in our Oakland, CA office and will work under a hybrid schedule: at least 2 days in office per week, plus additional days as required for the role. Regular travel between THP sites in Northern California and Los Angeles is expected, along with occasional travel to conferences and other Impact Justice offices. Periodic deviations to the regular hybrid schedule may be required due to program needs.

We are not considering remote staff for this position.

If this all sounds like a good fit for you, please share your resume and a response to the following questions:

• Describe a team you have managed: its size and composition, and how you set expectations, developed staff, and handled performance challenges.
• Describe a time you built or improved the operating systems of a program (work plans, procedures, data, or communication rhythms). What changed as a result?
• What is your experience working with or managing people returning home from incarceration and/or in housing or reentry services?
• What makes you the best fit for this particular role at Impact Justice?

We plan on making decisions on a rolling basis, so the earlier you apply, the better.

Hiring Process

Elements of the Impact Justice hiring process may include phone screen interviews, candidate exercises (written or presentations), Zoom interviews, in-person interviews, and reference checks. Candidates are welcome to ask for alternative arrangements in the process if needed (for example, conducting an interview via phone rather than Zoom), Impact Justice will do our best to accommodate reasonable requests. Please communicate any alternative arrangements requested to the hiring manager.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Impact Justice provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race/ethnicity, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, age, criminal history, or disability.