Vice President of Programs

Organization: The Housing Collective
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Location: Hybrid / Bridgeport, CT office
Start Date: October 1, 2026
Final date to receive applications: September 15, 2026
Salary: $135,000 - $155,000

The Housing Collective is a Connecticut-based nonprofit organization dedicated to ending homelessness and ensuring equitable access to safe, affordable housing for all.

As a backbone organization, The Housing Collective operates at the intersection of policy, practice, community voice, and investment, aligning systems, not just delivering programs. HC partners with more than 200 organizations statewide and is recognized as a leading voice in housing systems change in Connecticut.

Our integrated housing systems-change approach is advanced through our core collective impact initiatives:
Opening Doors, Centers for Housing Opportunity, and Housing for All. Together, these initiatives connect homelessness prevention & response, housing stability, affordable housing production & preservation, housing policy & practice, and community voice to advance HC’s mission.

Our initiatives and programs are supported by a strong organizational infrastructure including finance, fund development, communications, and operations teams.

The Vice President, Programs (VPP) is a senior executive responsible for leading, aligning, and strengthening HC’s programmatic work across the housing system.

Reporting to the CEO and serving on the Senior Leadership Team, the VPP provides strategic direction and operational oversight for HC’s program portfolio, including the Opening Doors Initiative, the Centers for Housing Opportunity, Housing for All, affordable housing preservation-related work, and other housing systems-change initiatives.

This role is designed to help HC move beyond siloed “homelessness” and “housing” strategies toward an integrated approach that recognizes homelessness response, housing stability, affordable housing production, preservation, and protection, and systems reform as interconnected parts of the same housing ecosystem.

The ideal candidate will bring deep affordable housing expertise, strong housing-sector relationships, and the ability to translate housing policy, planning, development, preservation, and municipal engagement into practical systems-change strategies. This affordable housing-focused experience is essential to the role.

The VPP also serves as a senior external representative for HC on programmatic and housing policy matters, working in close coordination with the CEO and communications team.

• Lead an integrated program strategy that connects HC’s work across homelessness response, housing stability, affordable housing production, preservation, housing policy, municipal engagement, community voice, and systems reform.
• Ensure HC’s initiatives and programs operate as aligned, mutually reinforcing components of a broader housing systems-change agenda.
• Translate organizational strategy into clear program priorities, work plans, budgets, staffing plans, results frameworks, and accountability structures.
• Strengthen HC’s role as a cohesive backbone organization by aligning partner facilitation, technical assistance, community voice, data, policy, and implementation support across regions.
• Identify and advance strategic housing opportunities that leverage policy, funding, partnerships, and best practices to support the production, preservation, and protection of affordable housing.

• Provide executive oversight and leadership for HC’s program portfolio, including Opening Doors Initiative, the Centers for Housing Opportunity, Housing for All, preservation work, and related housing systems-change initiatives.
• Ensure HC’s homelessness response work is connected to broader housing strategies, including supply, preservation, subsidy, services, housing navigation, and long-term housing stability.
• Ensure HC’s affordable housing work advances practical strategies for production, preservation, protection, policy, planning, resident engagement, and public will-building.
• Support program leaders and partners…