Destination: Home - Senior Director, Right at Home

About the role

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

HYBRID WORK SCHEDULE
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).

Job Summary And Reporting

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.

The Senior Director reports to the Chief Program Officer and is accountable for implementation, model fidelity and appropriate local adaptation, national grantmaking, community performance, research integration, and initiative operations.

Duties And Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Program and Grantmaking Leadership

• 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.
• Conduct 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 providers, and research partners to support effective local implementation.
• Oversee a consultant-supported best practices learning community of 20-30 communities, ensuring its work reinforces Right at Home and supports coordinated federal advocacy.

External Partnerships

• Build trusted relationships with community grantee partners and local implementation leaders, while maintaining a current understanding of progress, risks, and support needs in each pilot community.
• Serve as Destination: Home’s lead and connector for Right at Home, using a network of internal and external experts to route questions and bring in specialized support.
• Support fundraising by providing performance data and community examples and participating in partner and funder meetings.
• Represent Right at Home at national conferences, policy forums, and stakeholder convenings.
• Lead relevant steering committees, advisory groups, and national partnerships.

Organizational Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop the Right at Home team and assess whether additional staffing or expertise is needed.
• Develop and refine the systems, governance processes, and cross-team coordination needed to support the initiative.
• Provide regular updates and bring data-informed strategic and resource recommendations to the Leadership Team.
• Foster a collaborative, equity-centered, high-performing culture.

Learning, Evaluation, and Communications

• Champion a culture of learning by using monitoring data, evaluation findings, and community experience to inform strategic decisions and adjustments.
• Share data, local successes, implementation challenges, and best practices across communities, partners, and organizational teams.
• Cook up with communications and policy teams to share Right at Home’s progress, highlight local successes, and prepare pilot and learning-community jurisdictions for coordinated federal advocacy.

Qualifications And Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in homelessness prevention, affordable housing, philanthropy, public policy, community development, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-site initiatives, cross-sector partnerships, and teams.
• Experience leading multi-state initiatives is preferred.
• Experience scaling a model across communities strongly preferred.
• Experience overseeing grantmaking, budgets, program operations, strategy, and data-driven performance monitoring.
• Strong knowledge of housing and homelessness systems, public funding, supportive services, and community-centered approaches.
• Ability to navigate political environments, influence policy, build coalitions, manage conflict, and facilitate complex discussions.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational management skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to equity, economic justice, systems change, and incorporating lived experience into program and policy design.
• Lived experience with homelessness or housing instability is strongly valued.

Salary And Benefits

SVCF is committed to offering competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits. The target hiring range for this position is $221,000 to $235,000 per year based on experience, credentials and internal salary equity.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous medical, dental, and vision plans; paid time off; holidays and employer contribution and matching to a 403(b) retirement plan.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND INCLUSION

Silicon Valley Community Foundation has a deep commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that is representative of our community.

SVCF is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, political affiliation, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

SVCF is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions, of employment, please contact humanresources@siliconvalleycf.org.