Planning Team Manager

Title: Planning Team Manager

Salary Range: $100,000 - $139,000

Classification: Full-time; Exempt; Represented by Protec17

Location: Seattle, WA; In person & eligible for telework

Organizational Overview

The King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) is a public administrative agency that oversees homelessness-related programs and funding in the Seattle-King County region. Created by an interlocal agreement between the City of Seattle and King County in 2019, KCRHA is responsible for unifying and coordinating the homelessness response system across our large and diverse region. KCRHA works with a wide range of stakeholders, with a focus on continuous improvement across the system, centering lived experience and making the most effective use of public funds. Our mission is to address and bring everyone inside throughout King County using equity and social justice principles.

Team Overview

The Planning Team (the Team) at KCRHA shapes the agency s future initiatives, including grant applications, procurement, site planning, development, and special projects. They coordinate responses across King County s sub-regions, optimizing strategic capabilities, operations, and resource allocation. Guided by data, KCRHA s strategic plan, and core values of equity, justice, quality, and innovation, the team collaborates with executive leadership on strategic direction and community engagement, contributing to the organization s vision and strategy.

The Team collaborates with the Community Impact Department and External Affairs Division, and engages with other offices across the agency, including the Executive Office and Senior Leadership to ensure goal alignment. It consists of three coordinators and one manager, reporting to the Director of Special Projects and Planning within the Programs Division.

In partnership with the Director, the Team will:

Develop programmatic priorities, objectives, and outcomes for homelessness needs. Select and support aligned projects. Implement methods to understand stakeholder needs. Liaise on data, impact, and performance measurement. Champion racial equity goals within the organization and homelessness system. Build relationships with key partners and stakeholders. Overall supports the strategic planning, program and system design, analysis, evaluation, project management for organizational change, and cross-divisional special projects.

Role Description

The Planning Team Manager (the Manager) oversees three Planning Team Coordinators. The Manager ensures ongoing engagement with housing and homeless service providers, coalitions, stakeholders, elected officials, local governments, and individuals with lived expertise across the sub-regions (East, South, North, and the City of Seattle). Each Planning Team Coordinator will develop and maintain specialized knowledge in their assigned sub-region. Additionally, the Manager ensures that the Planning Team Coordinators collectively provide expertise in engaging with homeless response system stakeholders and subpopulations of individuals experiencing homelessness.

Accountabilities

Supervision and Mentorship

• Supervise and mentor 3-5 Planning Team Coordinators.
• Build a strong, flexible, collaborative, and innovative team.
• Set work goals and objectives and make personnel recommendations to the Director of Planning and Special Projects.

Leadership and Strategy

• Balance team leadership with strategic thinking, organizational skills, analysis, reporting, and project management.
• Support the development of programmatic priorities, clear objectives, and outcomes addressing the needs of people experiencing homelessness.
• Embrace and embody KCRHA s racial equity goals, providing leadership to advance these goals within the organization and the larger homelessness response system.
• Stay informed about external strategic communications and represent the agency in interactions with stakeholders.
• Communicate Planning Team initiatives to all KCRHA staff.
• Manage, track, and report on the progress of the KCRHA 5-year plan.
• Develop a plan and timeline for continual improvement of the homeless response system in partnership with people with lived experience, service providers, city agencies, and other key stakeholders.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Facilitate coordination among all stakeholders in the King County homeless response system, including geographic subregions, healthcare, behavioral healthcare, addiction, emergency services, corrections, and reentry systems, and subpopulation groups (e.g., single adults, families, LGBTQ+, women, reentrants, complex medical cases).
• Liaise with stakeholders on relevant data, impact, and performance measurement issues.
• Build and strengthen relationships with key partners, including the City of Seattle, county and subregional governmental departments, and other community stakeholders to develop trust and rapport.
• Oversee coordination between the homeless response system and other interacting systems.
• Oversee collaboration with subpopulations experiencing homelessness.

Minimum Requirements

• Fluency in equity and racial justice concepts and language, understanding their privilege and power, and can bring equity impact analysis to life in the context of their tasks.
• A track record of success in team leadership and cross-team and/or multi-stakeholder collaboration.
• Strong organization, written and oral communications skills.
• Proficiency in using technology and data, including Microsoft Office Suite.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to travel around the King County region.
• Project management experience.
• Budget management experience.
• Experience working across government agencies and related structures/governing bodies.
• Success in stakeholder and community engagement.
• Experience designing and operating programs or projects and conducting data-driven continuous improvement processes.

Benefits

The KCRHA offers a comprehensive benets package.

Health: Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

Insurance: Life insurance and Long-Term Disability (LTD) coverage.

Retirement: Pension and Deferred Compensations Plan for eligible employees.

Paid Time Off: Unlimited vacation, 96 hours of paid sick and safe leave, 12 o?cial holidays, and 2 personal holidays.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Confidential support for personal and work-related challenges.

EEO Statement

The KCRHA is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, alienage or citizenship status, ancestry, nationality, national origin, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, The KCRHA will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.