Director, Projects & Change Management

Calgary Homeless Foundation (CHF)

Calgary Homeless Foundation guides the fight against homelessness. Fueled by this purpose, we envision the day when homelessness is rare, brief, and non-recurring — perhaps an episode in someone's life, but never a condition that defines it. Working in alignment with governments and collaboratively with service providers and community partners, we help translate complex system needs into coordinated, efficient ground-level action that maximizes the impact of every resource and creates lasting pathways out of homelessness.

We are uniquely positioned to observe the many challenges facing our city and strengthen the entire sector through strategic leadership, forward-thinking capacity development, and hands-on, day-to-day support.

Our comprehensive data warehousereveals the full picture of homelessness in our community, enabling us to anticipate challenges and identify effective solutions. And we unite diverse stakeholders around shared goals and help address complex situations that no single agency can solve alone.

Our collective approach and focus on learning and evaluation equip us to address homelessness across our city while keeping the people experiencing it at the heart of our work.

When the system works better together, more people find their way home.

We are looking for passionate, entrepreneurial, and talented people to join our action-oriented, high impact team.

The Director, Projects & Change Management reports to the Co-Vice President, Finance & Operations and is responsible for enabling the coordinated delivery of Calgary Homeless Foundation’s strategic and operational priorities across initiatives, programs, and projects.

Working closely with the Co-Vice President, Finance & Operations, the Director supports the translation of strategic priorities into well-governed, executable, and sustainable work. The Director establishes the structures, tools, and practices that enable consistent, high-quality execution across the organization.

The Director supports not only individual initiatives, but also the programs and projects that contribute to them, ensuring alignment, coordination, and coherence across all levels of execution.

In addition to providing leadership to the Projects & Change Management team, the Director ensures that CHF has the visibility, discipline, and coordination required to execute effectively in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.

The Director also leads CHF's Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery program, ensuring the organization maintains a coordinated, practical, and regularly tested approach to preparedness, continuity, recovery, and resilience.

CHF staff are action-oriented individuals who are catalytic leaders, courageous collaborators, evidence inspired, and vision dedicated. They choose to bring their professional expertise and personal talents to the non-profit sector, to add value to the full community. They work cooperatively with others in a strong team environment; demonstrate flexibility in organizing and undertaking work; show a high degree of initiative, discernment and resourcefulness;

exhibit excellent communication and relational skills; demonstrate thoughtfulness and intelligence in decision making; and are focused on creating positive outcomes for persons experiencing homelessness.

At CHF our approach is grounded in purpose, collaboration, and accountability. We believe that how we work together matters as much as what we achieve.

• Ownership Under Pressure:
  We take responsibility for outcomes, even when challenges arise.
• Constructive Feedback:
  We give and receive feedback openly, with the goal of learning and improving.
• Pace with
  
  Purpose:
  
  We move quickly when needed, without sacrificing quality or integrity.
• Healthy Disagreement:
  We challenge ideas respectfully and invite discussion to make decisions stronger.
• Shared Understanding:
  Expertise means building clarity for others, not being “right by default.”

Our culture values transparency, inclusion, and resilience. We name real pressures – external and internal - and…