Homelessness TA Senior Associate

The World at Abt 

Solving the world’s most pressing issues and improving the quality of life for people worldwide is what we do every day at Abt Global. Creating a more equitable world is no small task, but we are driven by big challenges. 

We are a team of 3,000+ people in over 50 countries working in unison and focused on the bigger picture. Only by sharing our commitment, energy, and innovation do we affect change and push the boundaries of what’s possible. We welcome diverse ideas, backgrounds, and viewpoints – joining Abt means access to exceptional thinkers at the top of their game.  

To thrive at Abt is to embrace flexibility and collaboration. Our open culture allows you to balance your work and personal life as needed to optimize personal well-being. Creating a more equitable world starts from within – we look after people around the world, and we’ll do the same for you. 

Ready to embrace rewarding and meaningful work? Now’s your chance. 

The Opportunity 

As an Equity Senior within the Technical Delivery sub-capability of the Equity Capability, you will support projects within our Domestic Housing and Asset Building (HAB) portfolio to work on homelessness technical assistance (TA) team projects funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and other local, state, and federal partners. Through these projects, our team supports communities nationwide in developing and implementing equitable, effective, and human-centered homelessness response systems and programs.   This position will be dedicated to supporting efforts to end homelessness, through HUD, VA, and state and locally funded TA initiatives in Abt’s portfolio. Additional opportunities within Abt’s TA portfolio, as well as our research and evaluation work, will be tailored depending on the skills, interests, and experience of the candidate.  To be successful you will be required to work collaboratively as part of teams, exercising initiative, and communicating effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders and partners. You also must be comfortable with telework technologies and work styles since the candidate would be working with colleagues and TA recipients located throughout the country. 

Core Responsibilities

• Lead large direct TA engagements within communities, with a particular emphasis on supporting efforts to end unsheltered homelessness. These engagements are designed to help Continuums of Care (CoCs), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) recipients, other homeless service providers, local partners, and public officials improve their local crisis and housing responses to homelessness, address disparities, and achieve significant reductions in homelessness. Areas of direct TA may include: 
• Unsheltered homelessness, including encampment resolution strategies, street outreach and trauma-informed care 
• Landlord engagement, housing navigation and unit acquisition improvement and change management efforts at a system level
• Working cooperatively with communities and agencies to assess needs, develop and implement capacity building strategies to improve their housing development efforts especially related to reducing homelessness. 
• Cross-system and cross-community partner engagement and collaboration  
• System modeling and coordinated investment planning and implementation 
• Continuous quality improvement design and implementation 
• Coordinated entry policy, design, implementation, evaluation and improvements/change processes 
• Advance equity by assisting communities to analyze data to identify disparities, make data informed decisions to advance equitable outcomes, and adopt policies and processes to support a more equitable system. 
• Develop and deliver training curriculums, using virtual and in person modalities to expand the knowledge and skills of grantees and subgrantee staff to effectively implement housing development, assistance and homelessness programs. 
• Design tools, products and guidance to be applied within specific engagements and shared nationally to support local efforts addressing challenges related to improving housing assistance and production programs.
• Communicate with leadership
  • Reporting to the Senior Equity Director for Advancing Technical Delivery.
  • Serving as consultant to top management in long-range company planning concerning new or projected areas of technological research and advancements.
  • Actively collaborating with the Equity leadership and supporting high-quality solution development and people management.
• Managing people – serving as a direct supervisor for early- to mid-career staff.
• Serving as a prime spokesperson on company’s technical capabilities and future directions. Often