Chief Strategy Officer

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) will be responsible for supporting the strategic direction and growth of the organization. It is an exciting opportunity to be at the ground level of a new nonprofit that will improve the voucher housing experience and landscape in New York City to be more effective. The CSO will be a member of the Executive Team, reporting to the CEO and working closely with the Anthos|Home leadership team. The Chief Strategy Officer will have a comprehensive understanding and strong execution of strategy at all levels of the organization from day-to-day projects to long term strategy, and will ensure alignment across departments. S/he will define and implement means to engage leaders throughout the organization and external partners in the process of defining strategic goals and objectives. The CSO will also serve to give greater visibility of the organization's strategic objectives and promote a management culture that supports the mission of Anthos|Home. The mission of Anthos|Home to move New Yorkers who are unhoused or at risk of homelessness—and who have housing vouchers—into safe, sustainable housing by quickly connecting them to available units with quality landlords.

This position is envisioned to be a full thought partner to the CEO and provides a unique opportunity to assist with the creation and implementation of a new nonprofit organization in NYC. The CSO will be essential in ensuring cross departmental coordination, thinking through challenges, setting policies, connecting workstreams, and communicating effectively across multiple divisions.  The NYC housing landscape is complex and dynamic and the CSO will need to be able to make quick decisions and have excellent judgment and foresight.  The CSO has insight into the overall success and operations of the organization and plays an essential role in ensuring results are met.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Defining the strategies and priorities for growth and innovation in line with the organization’s mission and goals.
• Establishing partnerships with external stakeholders to support the mission and make the organization viable and successful.
• Collaborating with the executive team to ensure operations and budgets are in line with the organization's mission.
• Helping to brainstorm, troubleshoot and revamp the program design as needed with the CEO and Chief Program Officer to ensure the organization's housing goals and mission are achieved.
• Investing in organization­-wide improvement efforts while monitoring and managing the organization’s growth capacity.
• Assisting with funding strategies for the organizations and developing relationships with potential funders including foundations.
• Building relationships with all employees and fostering effective responsiveness on critical matters
• Providing strategic direction and advice to the CEO and senior leadership

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

The Chief Strategy Officer must be an independent thinker and leader who can take initiative to get the work done effectively.  S/he must be a mission-driven entrepreneur who is excited at the opportunity of helping shape a new organization. The environment is fast-paced and dynamic and will require someone who can easily handle and juggle multiple priorities. The candidate will have 8-10 years of progressively responsible human service sector experience, and at least 2 years in a similar position. A master's degree in housing, public administration, public policy, nonprofit management or other similar field is preferred.

Additional Skills Include:

• A passion for the mission of the organization
• Acumen to handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities while balancing long-term projects with the urgency of immediate demands
• Exceptional judgment and communication skills
• Ability to collaborate with and achieve actionable results through others, both within the organization and with outside parties
• Experience with budget management, operations management and project coordination
• Ability to lead in an effective and trustworthy way
• Ability to advance Anthos|Home’s DEIA goals and commitment to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion
• Excellent interpersonal skills and creative problem-solving abilities (a sense of humor is a plus).
• Excellent writing and organizational skills are essential.
• Ability to work in a diverse environment

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Competitive Pay: $135,000 - $150,000 starting salary (dependent on experience)
• WFH/Hybrid work
• Fantastic Benefits
• A chance to be a part of a groundbreaking startup that will house vulnerable New Yorkers.

TO APPLY:

Please send a resume and cover letter to careers@anthoshome.org with Chief Strategy Officer in the subject line. Anthos|Home is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. Anthos|Home is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals of all backgrounds, experiences and abilities to apply. Anthos|Home is also committed to fair hiring practices.

ABOUT ANTHOS|HOME

An innovative new nonprofit that will transform the system by which NYC residents with housing subsidies source and rent available housing. Anthos|Home will be a game-changer for New Yorkers who are unhoused or at risk of homelessness—and for the systems that serve them.

Mission: To move New Yorkers who are unhoused or at risk of homelessness—and who have housing vouchers—into safe, sustainable housing by quickly connecting them to available units with quality landlords.

Vision: An innovative system to simplify the housing voucher process—transforming New York City’s homelessness bureaucracy, increasing the supply of quality rental units available for tenants with vouchers, and setting people up for success in securing and retaining stable housing via tenancy support services to renters and landlords.

Impact: Within three years, Anthos|Home will have proved that our model works in New York City, significantly improving the experiences and outcomes of landlords and households utilizing housing subsidies to rent apartments. We will achieve the following high-level outcomes:

• Efficiency: The time between issuance of vouchers and apartment move-in will decrease, reducing the impact and duration of homelessness via seamless transition into housing.
• Increased Housing Options: More units will be added to the system, and those landlords will more quickly fill vacancies due to the centralized pool of available rental units, as well as tenancy supports.
• Better Housing Retention: Households will experience greater housing retention due to better matching of households to units, tenancy supports, and mediation services.

Anthos|Home is modeled on exemplary housing clearinghouse nonprofits, particularly the nationally recognized Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool model operationalized by Brilliant Corners in California. This model centralizes the rental subsidy application, unit search and approval, and move-in processes—while providing essential funding through a flexible funding pool. This model coordinates, streamlines, and expedites administrative processes that are currently siloed.

NYC’s housing and social service leaders have long pressed for a unified system for utilizing housing vouchers. As the homelessness crisis grows, and more vouchers flood the market, it is clear that our excessively fragmented voucher system is woefully inadequate. The City’s Housing Blueprint (June 2022) recognizes this, establishing the goal of streamlining systems to support tenants and landlords. Anthos|Home will be instrumental in achieving this transformational goal.

We have garnered strong support from a spectrum of stakeholders. Anthos|Home will initially work with families involved in child welfare services; youth who have aged out of foster care; and/or households with special medical needs. We’ll keep building from there, toward a structure that can be used system-wide to house voucher-holders far more effectively—dramatically improving the housing prospects of the more than 10,000 New Yorkers per year who receive NYC’s “City FHEPS” vouchers, federal Section 8 vouchers and other housing subsidies.

Please send a resume and cover letter to careers@anthoshome.org with Chief Strategy Officer in the subject line. Anthos|Home is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. Anthos|Home is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals of all backgrounds, experiences and abilities to apply. Anthos|Home is also committed to fair hiring practices.