Vice President of Operational Strategy

Job Details

Founded as a small, shelter-based organization almost 38 years ago, Abode has grown into one of the largest and most impactful providers of housing and services in the Bay Area. Our mission is to end homelessness by assisting low-income, unhoused people, including those with special needs, to secure stable, supportive housing and to be advocates for the removal of the causes of homelessness.

We are a Housing First agency, which means that all our programs are geared toward connecting people as quickly as possible to permanent housing, minimizing, or eliminating barriers to care, and providing non-judgmental and compassionate services to ensure that even the most vulnerable households can access housing and services. With over 800 employees, Abode currently provides services in eight bay area counties:
Napa, Solano, Sonoma, Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz.

The Vice President of Operational Strategy will serve as a senior strategic leader responsible for advancing Abode’s mission by strengthening alignment across program divisions, administrative functions, data systems, compliance, finance, and organizational priorities. This role will help translate Abode’s strategic plan into coordinated action, ensuring that programs, departments, and related entities are working from shared goals, clear priorities, and consistent performance expectations.

The Vice President of Operational Strategy will also identify, assess, and support strategic opportunities for growth, including expansion into new counties, new funding opportunities, new service models, partnerships, and other mission-aligned initiatives. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker, skilled collaborator, and practical strategist who can connect vision to implementation while balancing mission, financial sustainability, operational readiness, compliance, and community impact.

• Lead agency-wide strategic alignment efforts across program divisions and administrative departments, including programs, compliance, data, finance, contracts, quality improvement, people operations, communications, and related functions.
• Translate Abode’s strategic plan into,
• Annual goals and executive priorities articulated in clear work plans and decision frameworks
• KPI’s and OKR’s that roll up into dashboards and accountability plans
• Partner with executive and director level leadership to identify cross-departmental barriers to create strategies for an efficient and effective culture, coordination, and operational alignment.
• Evaluate strategic opportunities for growth including but not limited to new counties, new funding streams, new service models, new partnerships, and other expansion areas.
• Conduct feasibility assessments for major opportunities including mission fit, community needs, financial sustainability, partnership fit, and risk considerations.
• Support the development of go/no-go recommendations for RFPs, county expansion, contract growth, pilot programs, and other strategic initiatives.
• Coordinate with program, finance, development, compliance, data, and executive leaders to strengthen funding strategies and ensure new opportunities are adequately resourced and operationally supported.
• Build and maintain tools to monitor strategic priorities, including project plans, implementation timelines, key performance indicators, risk registers, and leadership reporting structures.
• Use data, program outcomes, financial information, community trends, funder priorities, and operational feedback to support evidence-informed decision‑making.
• Support strategic partnerships with counties, cities, funders, healthcare partners, housing partners, peer providers, coalitions, and community stakeholders as assigned.
• Prepare executive-level briefings, board updates, opportunity analyses, strategy memos, presentations, and implementation materials.
• Help ensure that strategic growth remains mission aligned, margin aware, operationally supported, and consistent with Abode’s values and long‑term sustainability.
• Facilitate cross‑functional meetings, planning sessions, and project teams to…