Senior Director, Right

ABOUT DESTINATION: HOME

Destination:
Home, a 501(c)3 supporting organization of Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF), is a public-private partnership ending homelessness in Silicon Valley. Through our collective impact model, we convene and collaborate with stakeholders across our community to address the root causes of homelessness and drive true systemic change. We embrace a data-driven and human approach - advocating for policies, incubating new ideas and programs, and investing in strategies to connect more of our homeless neighbors to a stable home and prevent homelessness before it begins.

Our work is grounded in a commitment to advancing racial and socioeconomic justice - and working together, we can build a community where homelessness is rare, brief, and non-recurring.

This is a full-time, exempt level position in San Jose, California. This position requires approximately 10–15% travel each month.

Destination:
Home currently operates in a hybrid office/remote work environment where employees are required to be in the office three days per week (typically, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays).

Destination:
Home is seeking an experienced and visionary Senior Director to lead Right at Home, a highly visible national initiative replicating an evidence-based homelessness prevention model across 10 diverse U.S. communities, including urban, rural, and tribal contexts. Reporting to the Chief Program Officer, the Senior Director is accountable for implementation, model fidelity and appropriate local adaptation, national grantmaking, community performance, research integration, and initiative operations.

Destination:
Home serves as funder and model holder, while local experts and provider networks lead implementation. The Senior Director will maintain a current understanding of progress in each community, connect communities with the right internal and external expertise, and bring data-informed recommendations to the Leadership Team when challenges arise. The role supervises the Sr. Program Officer, coordinates contractors and research and evaluation partners, and oversees a consultant-supported learning community.

The Senior Director also serves as an initiative spokesperson in a variety of settings, working closely with development, policy, and communications teams.

• Lead the implementation of the Right at Home model across 10 pilot communities with varied local systems and contexts.
• Design, maintain, and improve Destination:
  Home’s quarterly performance-monitoring system to provide a clear, comparable view of progress across all pilot communities.
• Identify emerging challenges, diagnose contributing factors, and work with partner communities to develop solutions and capture learnings.
• Approve local modifications within established eligibility and fidelity parameters and elevate significant adaptations that could affect research validity or materially depart from the model.
• Direct attention and support where most needed, including traveling to and working in the field with communities requiring deeper assistance.
• Be accountable for multi-year budgets, annual priorities, performance measures, and timely execution across the initiative.
• Ensure alignment across program implementation, research, evaluation, data, and technical assistance partners.
• Manage contractors and vendors related to site-specific work and ensure their efforts align with initiative priorities.

• Provide oversight of the national grantmaking portfolio and pilot community investments.
• Supervise staff and oversee day-to-day administration, implementation coordination, technical assistance, and follow-through across all sites.
• Partner with research, evaluation, and data partners to monitor community-level performance, implementation fidelity, and continuous improvement.
• Conducts annual site visits and quarterly check-in calls, as well as reviewing grant reports and budget amendment requests, with the pilot communities
• Coordinate local experts, provider networks, technical assistance…