Program Director

Join us as our Program Director
 
Overview
The  Street Roots Program Director will lead organizational programming, which is centered on people experiencing homelessness and poverty who sell our newspaper as a low-barrier means to income. This is a new role designed to lead, develop and connect programming, supporting staff to both manage programs and collaborate across the organization. An integral part of the leadership team with the Executive Director, Development Director and Operations Director, the Program Director holds focus on programs while seeing and valuing the whole organization. 

For twenty-five years, Street Roots has published a newspaper sold by vendors as well as Rose City Resource, a compendium of services for people experiencing homelessness and poverty. Street Roots is a growing organization that is moving into a newly renovated building on W. Burnside. The program director will help transition and stabilize programs while realizing burgeoning initiatives – all centered on structuring access to income for people on the streets as well as access to knowledge and voice through education and civic engagement. Street Roots creates conditions for belonging and stability for people experiencing homelessness while also lifting up the importance of mutuality and relationship across housing status. 
 

Street Roots has been renovating a building on W. Burnside to expand our programs after 25 years.

Street Roots workplace
The Street Roots workplace is one in which one is faced with a wide spectrum of human experiences, sometimes painful, sometimes inspiring. Housed and unhoused people work side-by-side with respect for each other’s humanity. Some work can be remote, but the development director will be expected to work at the new Street Roots building several days a week.

Job Duties

Lead program staff

• Manage staff who manage programs and initiatives, providing check-ins, coaching, feedback, and performance reviews, and empowering development with mentoring and stretch assignments based on capacity and career goals
• Lead collaboration across teams, bringing a holistic view across programs that promotes Street Roots’ mission with nuance and clarity. Encourage generative input, supporting communication across the organization and lifting up ideas
• Synthesize strategy into actionable program plan with goals, objectives and measurement criteria. Adapt each program plan regularly based on progress and learnings

Work in leadership team

• Lead with Street Roots values to tackle problems constructively and uphold a healthy culture of listening and communicating
• Bring care to strong lines of communication with the executive director and leadership team, supporting and communicating effectively decisions made by the executive director and  leadership team
• Participate in strategic planning and then lead programmatic implementation and evaluation

Develop burgeoning programs

• Implement the wellness center – showers and laundry for Street Roots vendors. Construction on this wellness center will be completed this spring, and the Program Design will finish operational and staff planning to open in the summer.
• Support program staff who are developing new initiatives around vendor education, civic engagement and media

Guide programs in collecting this data for improved operations, strategic evaluation and communication to leadership and the community

• Guide meaningful program data, evaluation and communication

• Participate in Street Roots’ work with Coalition of Communities of Color on creating a data charter, and adapt this work for Street Roots, communicating this work to leadership and program management teams. 

Participate in budgeting and financial management

• Work in a leadership team to build the organizational budget, managing overall program budgets throughout the year,  building financial management and budgeting capacity among program staff to oversee and be accountable for their respective program budgets
• Manage government contracts and grants for programs, working with leadership team, program managers, and outside partners

Apply
Email [email protected] with the subject line “program director.”

Please include your resume, which should include at least three years of experience as a nonprofit program leader; and a letter that responds to this question: why are you Street Roots’ program director for our next era?

The deadline for applications is Friday, April 26 at 5 p.m., but applicants are encouraged to apply earlier. 

Compensation 
$70,000, medical, dental, vision, paid sabbatical, paid time off (three weeks plus 11 paid holidays throughout the year)