CEO, Non-Profit & Social Impact

About Funders Together for Housing Justice

Funders Together for Housing Justice (FTHJ), the only philanthropic membership organization solely devoted to housing justice in the United States, is seeking a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). FTHJ is redoubling its commitment to uniting the sector and activating its membership to protect all those impacted by the full spectrum of housing insecurity. Reporting to the board, this new CEO will oversee all functions of the organization including membership cultivation and fundraising, programmatic advancement, advocacy and coalition building, operational oversight, and team development.

Additionally, they will collaborate with the board on the strategic advancement and long-term growth of the organization.

The ideal candidate will be an energized and eloquent advocate for housing justice who will clarify and amplify FTHJ’s core belief that housing is a human right and a building block for racial justice. They will have 15 or more years of progressive experience in and/or with philanthropy. They will be a skilled manager who has empowered and supported small to medium-sized teams and a dynamic public communicator who can carry and deliver the mission and values of FTHJ to familiar and new audiences.

In order to nurture and grow FTHJ’s membership and organizational impact, they will need nuanced experience listening to, synthesizing, and activating the ideas of a diverse set of collaborators. Further, they will be conscious of traditional, white-dominant power dynamics in organizational structures and consider experimentations to resist these norms. This includes having the imagination, gravitas and critical hope necessary to grow the membership, deepen coalitions, and hold systems accountable to housing justice.

Additionally they will be a fierce, empathetic servant leader with a demonstrated commitment to elevating pro-Black, pro-Indigenous and pro-LGBTQ solutions to housing justice. They will convene funders to move toward a model that shifts and cedes power and resources to those most impacted by the systems and respects that those most impacted by the system know best how to dismantle it.

Given FTHJ’s mission, we are particularly interested in applicants who have been intimately impacted by housing instability, poverty, and the criminalization of Black and Brown folks in the U.S.

• Partner with the board of directors on a strategic plan that clarifies how the organization will execute the mission, build the membership, expand national advocacy, and welcome new funders into the mission;
• Serve as the primary point of contact with the board, cultivating trust, modeling authentic communication and clarifying the opportunities and challenges of the governance of FTHJ;
• Support the board members as they nominate new members, clarify roles, and build learning opportunities that fortify FTHJ to respond to the rise in authoritarianism and the deepening of housing insecurity;
• Serve as the external face of the organization, speaking out via keynotes or other speaker opportunities to position FTHJ as a leader in the housing justice space.

• As the primary spokesperson for FTHJ synthesize the FTHJ mission, vision and goals into a narrative that invigorates and challenges sector partners, advocates, and organizers to coalesce around the shared goal of housing justice;
• Connect with current FTHJ members, gathering insight on how the organization can support philanthropic staff to challenge and move their institutions toward a more housing justice orientation, including funder priorities being led by the goals of organizers and people impacted by housing injustice;
• Partner with staff as they curate generative, long term relationships with organizations, amplifying their local and regional impact and eventually inviting them into membership.

• Serve a crucial role in delivering FTHJ’s public communications strategy that clarifies FTHJ’s story and how the identity of the organization has always relied upon a nuanced, comprehensive approach to housing…