Vice President,Programs Job Bridgeport area,Connecticut USA,Management

Location:

Hybrid role based in Connecticut. Regular travel throughout the state, including Eastern Connecticut, Hartford County, Litchfield County, and other partner locations. Bridgeport office presence is expected, but this role is not tied to a traditional office-based schedule.

Position Overview

The Vice President, Programs (VPP) is responsible for aligning programmatic work across The Housing Collective, supporting and developing program leaders, and ensuring HC's initiatives operate as a coordinated portfolio advancing a shared mission.

Reporting to the CEO and serving on the Senior Leadership Team, the VPP oversees five directors and one project manager. This role provides strategic leadership across HC's programs, connecting work across housing, homelessness, policy, systems change, and community partnerships. The VPP identifies opportunities for collaboration and growth, helps align priorities across initiatives, and ensures organizational strategy is translated into clear plans, structures, and outcomes.

HC's initiatives are led by experienced directors with deep expertise in housing, homelessness, systems change, and community engagement. The VPP leads through these experienced leaders, fostering collaboration, building organizational capacity, and creating the conditions for teams to navigate complexity and advance HC’s long-term vision. This is first and foremost a leadership role rather than a content-expert role.

Key Responsibilities People Leadership & Capacity Building

Lead, coach, and develop HC's senior program leaders, creating the conditions for their continued growth, success, and impact across the organization.
Ensure every program team has clear roles, decision-making authority, work plans, supervision, and professional development support.
Build management capability across the program organization so that supervision, feedback, and accountability are consistent and dependable.
Strengthen organizational resilience through documentation, cross-training, knowledge transfer, and transparent resource planning.
Translate HC's organizational strategy into clear program priorities, work plans, budgets, staffing plans, and results frameworks.
Bring regional and community-level insight into HC's organizational strategy, ensuring priorities reflect what is actually happening in the field.
Ensure HC’s initiatives operate as aligned, mutually reinforcing parts of one housing systems-change agenda rather than as separate programs.
Champion alignment across HC's housing and homelessness initiatives, helping create a more integrated and coordinated approach to advancing housing stability and systems change across Connecticut.
Connect HC’s homelessness response work to its broader housing stability, supply, preservation, and policy strategies.
Identify opportunities for collaboration, growth, and innovation across HC's programs and partnerships to increase organizational impact.
Bring a clear-eyed view to where HC should invest, expand, or step back, in partnership with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team.
Provide executive oversight of program budgets, grant and contract deliverables, compliance requirements, reporting deadlines, and partner commitments.
Establish clear operating rhythms for program leadership: cross-team coordination, work plan review, issue escalation, and resource planning.
Work with finance, development, communications, and operations to ensure program plans are financially realistic, fundable, and operationally sound.
Oversee shared measurement, data-informed learning, and impact reporting.

Partnership & External Engagement

Build and maintain trusted working relationships with the public agencies, municipalities, nonprofit partners, funders, and community leaders engaged…