A Way Home Washington (“AWHWA”) (awayhomewa.org)is a statewide movement to prevent and end youth and young adult homelessness, prioritizing the existing disproportionality of homelessness rates among young people of color and LGBTQ+ youth. Partnering with young people, communities, agencies, and leaders across Washington state, we work to realign local and state youth-serving systems to meet the needs of young people in ways that matter most to them and result in safe and stable housing. By engaging stakeholders on a local level and creating a statewide network, we connect communities and provide opportunities to discuss common barriers and solutions for ending youth and young adult homelessness.
Throughout our history, we have focused on integrating evidence-based practices with quality, real-time data. We apply Continuous Quality Improvement to test, learn from, and develop innovative solutions to systemic barriers. Ending youth homelessness won’t be achieved by maintaining the status quo; outside-the-box thinking is required to create cutting-edge initiatives and measurable results. We are guided by the principle “Nothing about us without us,” knowing our duty to ensure that youth and young adults hold key roles in shaping and influencing the systems change that lead to ending youth homelessness and housing insecurity.
A Way Home Washington is a fiscally sponsored organization of Third Sector New England, Inc (tsne.org).
AWHWA is currently seeking a Director of Public Policy to lead our work related to advancing public policy, legislation, and budget allocations aimed at preventing and ending youth and young adult homelessness across Washington state. This position will lead, co-develop, and implement this important work by engaging and building relationships with a diverse range of partners and allies, including young people with lived experience, service providers, philanthropy, government representatives, and others. This Director will have a thorough understanding of the legislative process and will build a robust advocacy plan, agenda, strategy, and infrastructure to effectively impact public policy that aligns with the AWHWA mission and vision. We are looking for a professional with strong experience in creating effective strategies that achieve targeted goals. Our ideal future colleague will have the proven ability to grow understanding and activate change through public and political will building in an inclusive style that honors the oppression, racism, homophobia, and trauma that so many of the young people we serve experience. We are looking for someone with a demonstrated ability to establish and maintain trust, focus, and accountability across various internal and external entities. This individual will bring a nuanced understanding of homelessness and housing insecurity among young people, as well as the historical and systemic inequities that create those circumstances. We are looking for a commitment to preventing and ending homelessness for all youth and young adults and, crucially, a firm belief that doing so is possible.
Essential Functions
Organizational Leadership
Engagement, Development, and Execution of Annual Public Policy Plan
State Legislative Session
We will consider exceptional candidates who demonstrate a strong combination of the specific qualifications and skills described below.
Attributes and experiences of our successful future colleague should include:
In the spirit of “nothing about us without us,” we strongly encourage BIPOC, persons with disabilities, persons with lived homelessness experience, and LGBTQ+ individuals to apply. We are a non-discriminatory workplace and equal employment opportunity employer committed to building an organization reflective of the community it serves. We believe that everyone has their own superpower that brings niche expertise into their work. We value the unique lived experiences of every individual, and we hope you’ll share your superpower with us.
Physical Demands/Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those for this position. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. Work is performed in an office environment and in close proximity to other workers.
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to:
Compensation and Benefits
Location: Work will be primarily performed Hybrid - Washington State.
Compensation: The starting salary range for this position is $97,850 - $123,600/yr. and is commensurate with experience. The full salary range possible within the role is $97,850 - $149,350/yr. dependent on experience and performance.
Benefits: This position is eligible for a full benefits package including:
TSNE/AWHWA strives to achieve excellence through a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment that embraces all of our individual and collective differences. Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Middle Eastern and North African, Bilingual and/or Bicultural candidates, and LGBTQ2SIA+ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We value and honor the unique talents, learning styles, and lived experiences of each individual that enrich and strengthen our workplace culture, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
All employment conditions are based on an individual’s performance and job qualifications. TSNE/AWHWA prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, creed, color, religion, native language, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, parental status, pregnancy, race-based hairstyles, or any other protected characteristic stated by federal and state law. Regardless of any class’ protection under the law or lack thereof, TSNE/AWHWA celebrates diversity and values the strengths that come with having a diverse team of employees. It is represented in our workplace culture, and it is who we are.
TSNE/AWHWA's EEO statement extends to volunteers, interns, contractors, vendors, and clients.
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