Salary: $82,180.80 – $100,006.40 annually
Type: Temporary, up to 1-year, limited benefits
Application deadline: Open until filled
Department: Homeless Housing Innovations
Job Summary
The City of San Diego (City) is one of many cities within the United States experiencing a homelessness crisis. To help the many individuals experiencing homelessness, the City has increased its efforts to address this unprecedented crisis. These efforts include initiatives such as the City’s Bridge Shelters, the City’s Storage Connect Center, Safe Parking programs, and HOUSING FIRST – SAN DIEGO, the Housing Commission’s homelessness action plan. However, the need for an overarching Strategic Plan to address homelessness within the City remained.
Through a contract with the San Diego Housing Commission (Housing Commission), on behalf of the City of San Diego, the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), a nationally recognized consultant with broad expertise in the area of homelessness, has developed a comprehensive Community Action Plan for the City of San Diego to address homelessness.
The San Diego Housing Commission is hiring a self-motivated Project Manager who is experienced in managing and coordinating large scale, multi-year projects. The successful candidate will conduct all major project management activities related to the execution of the City of San Diego’s (CoSD) Community Action Plan on Homelessness. The incumbent will receive direction from and will support the Subject Matter Experts that comprise the Plan’s Implementation Team, as well as the members of the Plan’s Leadership Council.
Overview
Under general direction, this position develops, coordinates and manages the underlying work plan that supports the execution of the City of San Diego (CoSD) Community Action Plan on Homelessness, including documenting the scope of work, ensuring deliverables fall within the applicable scope and budget of the project as identified by the Implementation Team, coordinating with other departments/agencies as directed to ensure all aspects of each component of the project are aligned with the Guiding Principles and Foundation Strategies of the Plan and are targeted towards achieving the Plan’s near term goals and long term Vision.
This position reports to the Senior Vice President of Homeless Housing innovations for the San Diego Housing Commission. The Project Manager provides support to the Community Action Plan’s Implementation Team and Leadership Council in a variety of administrative, coordinative, analytical, and support capacities. Incumbents are assigned to the most complex, rigorous, and sensitive activities related to the achievement of milestones and objectives related to the CoSD Community Action plan, and are expected to effectively perform their duties under the guidance and direction of the Community Action plan Implementation Team. Responsibilities include performing diverse and specialized work involving significant accountability and may involve frequent contact with management, the public and other stakeholder agencies as directed.
Examples of Essential Job Functions:
- Provides high-level administrative support to the Implementation Team, conducting research, preparing statistical reports, developing presentations, handling information requests and performing day-to-day administrative support activities.
- As assigned by the implementation Team, meets with project sponsors, technical leads, collaborating departments/agencies and project staff to determine different project scope components, including resource and time constraints.
- Creates and implements project management methodologies in order to create a tailored Project Management approach to meet the needs of the Implementation Team, including but not limited to business and automated processes.
- Plans, organizes, controls, and evaluates all work and activities involved in one or more CoSD Community Action Plan project(s); serves in a project manager role; develops and analyzes, project status reports and uses the data to generate summary status reports; directs and oversees project components through the entire life cycle.
- Coordinates and administers project activities including documenting milestones, timelines, final objectives, progress against individual milestones and overall goals, alignment with Plan guiding principles & foundational strategies and performance against agreed upon metrics and expected outcomes.
- Implements and maintains projects management tracking systems that accurately projects schedules and resources usage.
- Assigns, directs, prioritizes and reviews the work of team staff assigned to a project component; producing schedules, and project implementation budgets; prepares, reviews, and presents staff reports, various management and information updates, and presentations for the CoSD Community Action Plan Implementation Team and Leadership Council as directed.
- Prepares, reviews, and presents staff reports, various management and information updates, and reports on project status to the Housing Commission, Housing Authority and City Council as directed.
- Serves as a liaison for the Implementation Team with outside agencies; provides staff support to commissions, committees, and task forces as directed.
- Trains and oversees assigned department projects and project leads; prepares agendas and holds project meetings.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Typical Qualifications:
Knowledge of:
- Project management, analytical processes, and report preparation experience.
- Organizational and management practices as applied to the analysis, evaluation, development, implementation and reporting of programs, policies, and procedures.
- Technical report writing and preparation of correspondence.
- Record-keeping principles and procedures.
- Modern office practices, methods, and computer equipment and applications related to the work.
- Techniques for effectively representing the Commission and CoSD in contacts with government agencies, community groups, vendors, external partners, SDHC divisions, staff and various business, professional, educational, regulatory, and legislative organizations.
- Techniques for providing a high level of customer service by effectively dealing with the public, vendors, contractors, Commission staff and other stakeholders.
Ability to:
- Perform difficult administrative work and operational studies involving the use of independent judgment, analytical skills and personal initiative.
- Interpret, apply, explain, and ensure compliance with applicable Federal, State, and local policies, procedures, laws, and regulations.
- Establish and maintain a variety of record-keeping and tracking systems and prepare clear and concise reports, policies, procedures and other written materials.
- Organize and prioritize a variety of projects and multiple tasks in an effective and timely manner; organize own work, set priorities, and meet critical time deadlines.
- Uses management tools to manage activities, such as, SharePoint Online, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Suite, and other Project Management specific software’s.
- Operate modern office equipment including computer equipment and specialized software applications.
Education & Experience:
Equivalent to graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major coursework in finance, public or business administration, or a related field and six (6) years of experience in affordable housing development program or project management.
Licenses and Certifications:
Possession of, or ability to obtain, a valid California Driver’s License by time of appointment.
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