Senior Associate, HMIS TA

Core Responsibilities

• Designing tools and guidance to help communities to develop and implement a robust HMIS database.
• Developing data collection guidance and strategies to help communities use data from HMIS, point-in-time counts, housing inventory counts, and other sources to inform homelessness system design, measure performance, and model improvement opportunities.
• Creating data dashboards to support local and federal data efforts, ideally in Tableau.
• Developing programming specifications to analyze and generate reports from HMIS data (most likely leveraging SQL programming languages) to support local and national reporting and use of HMIS data for local homeless system planning.
• Facilitating knowledge sharing to promote cross-learning within Abt and externally (e.g., communities, HUD, and partners) to ensure all of those working to end homelessness can cultivate and apply the most effective strategies possible.
• Providing technical assistance to help HMIS Lead Agencies and Continuum of Care (CoCs) improve their data collection, data quality and reporting practices in HMIS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree + Twelve years of relevant experience, or Master’s Degree + Ten years of relevant experience, or PhD+ Eight years of relevant experience
• Technical expertise in HMIS, including knowledge of the HMIS Data Standards, HUD XML and CSV schemas, and HMIS federal partner requirements
• Experience programming HMIS software functionality, especially related to conformation with HUD Data Standards and Reporting Requirements and functionality (e.g. features to support community-level inventory management and coordinated entry implementation).
• Experience with data migration, data integration, moving data from one HMIS platform to a data repository, or moving data from one HMIS platform to another HMIS platform
• In-depth programming experience using SAS, SQL, particularly to program reports for HMIS or similar client-level datasets (experience with Python or R also a plus)
• Strong data visualization experience, ideally in Tableau
• Experience analyzing administrative data to understand racial, gender and other subgroup disparities
• Experience analyzing and presenting HMIS data to CoC and community leaders to help them understand homelessness, system performance, and system needs and to support planning processes focused on system improvement and equity
• Experience partnering with people with lived experience of homelessness in the design of data collection systems and efforts, interpretation of data, planning, decision-making and implementation processes.
• Demonstrated ability to center equity in daily work and functions
• Demonstrated success managing an HMIS, including work as an HMIS System Administrator for a local CoC
• Demonstrated success in implementing an HMIS Data Quality Management Program (DQMP) or equivalent training and support for users of HMIS
• Excellent problem solving, escalation, analytical, collaboration, listening, verbal and written communication skills
• Models professionalism and promotes teamwork through cooperative behavior
• Able to support multiple initiatives at any one time of various levels of effort.