The World at Abt

Solving the world’s most pressing issues and improving the quality of life for people worldwide is what we do every day at Abt Associates. Creating a more equitable and sustainable world is no small task, but we are driven by big challenges.

We are a team of 3,000+ people in over 50 countries working in unison and focused on the bigger picture. Only by sharing our commitment and energy do we affect change and push the boundaries of what’s possible. We welcome diverse ideas, backgrounds, and viewpoints – joining Abt means access to exceptional thinkers at the top of their game.

To thrive at Abt is to embrace flexibility and freedom. We’ll enable your entrepreneurial spirit to design your work as you deem fit, balancing your work and personal life as needed to optimize personal well-being. Creating a more equitable world starts from within – we look after people around the world, and we’ll do the same for you.

Ready to embrace rewarding and meaningful work? Now’s your chance.

Opportunity

Abt Associates seeks a Senior Associate in our Housing and Asset Building (HAB) Practice within our Domestic Division to work on Homelessness technical assistance (TA) team projects funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and other local, state, and federal partners. Through these projects, our team supports communities nationwide in developing and implementing equitable, effective, and human-centered homelessness response systems and programs.

This position will be dedicated to supporting efforts to end homelessness, through HUD, VA, and state and locally funded TA initiatives in Abt’s portfolio. Additional opportunities within Abt’s TA portfolio, as well as our research and evaluation work, will be tailored depending on the skills, interests, and experience of the candidate. To be successful you will work collaboratively as part of teams, exercising initiative, and communicating effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders and partners. You should be comfortable with telework technologies and work styles since the candidate would be working with colleagues and TA recipients located throughout the country. Site travel may be required.

Core Responsibilities

The focus of the position will be tailored depending on the skills of the candidate. Potential job responsibilities include:

• Leading large direct TA engagements within communities, with a particular emphasis on supporting efforts to end unsheltered homelessness. These engagements are designed to help Continuums of Care (CoCs), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) recipients, other homeless service providers, local partners, and public officials improve their local crisis and housing responses to homelessness, address disparities, and achieve significant reductions in homelessness. Areas of direct TA may include:
  • Unsheltered homelessness, including encampment resolution strategies, street outreach and trauma-informed care
  • Landlord engagement, housing navigation and unit acquisition improvement and change management efforts at a system level
  • Working cooperatively with communities and agencies to assess needs, develop and implement capacity building strategies to improve their housing development efforts especially related to reducing homelessness.
  • Cross-system and cross-community partner engagement and collaboration
  • System modeling and coordinated investment planning and implementation
  • Continuous quality improvement design and implementation
  • Coordinated entry policy, design, implementation, evaluation and improvements/change processes

• Advancing equity by assisting communities to analyze data to identify disparities, make data informed decisions to advance equitable outcomes, and adopt policies and processes to support a more equitable system.
• Developing and delivering training curriculums, using virtual and in person modalities to expand the knowledge and skills of grantees and subgrantee staff to effectively implement housing development, assistance and homelessness programs.
• Designing tools, products and guidance to be applied within specific engagements and shared nationally to support local efforts addressing challenges related to improving housing assistance and production programs.
• Facilitating knowledge sharing to promote cross-learning within Abt and externally (e.g., communities, HUD, and our colleagues at other firms) to ensure all of those working to build capacity for strong program implementation can cultivate and apply the most effective strategies possible.
• Managing workplan budgets, teams, deliverables, and communication with funders

What We Value

• Seventeen years of relevant experience, or Bachelor’s Degree + Twelve years of relevant experience, or Master’s Degree + Ten years of relevant experience, or PhD+ Eight years of relevant experience;
• Candidates should have experience working to design and improve systems to end homelessness within a community, and strong collaboration skills.
• Candidates should have knowledge of how systemic discrimination and racism have led Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other intersectional identities to be disproportionately impacted by homelessness and must be able to, or willing to learn to, think of and frame out equity-led systems-level strategies.
• Candidates will need to be able to meaningfully partner with diverse populations, to center people with lived experience and expertise in TA strategies, to demonstrate strong data-informed thinking, and to help a community diagnose its challenges and build capacity to address deficiencies.
• Candidates should demonstrate experience with at least one of the following areas:
  • Addressing unsheltered homelessness, including rehousing strategies targeting encampments, effective street outreach engagement, and trauma-informed care
  • Landlord engagement, housing navigation and unit acquisition strategies in high cost and low vacancy housing markets
  • System modeling and coordinated investment planning
  • Designing and implementing HUD-funded CoC and ESG Programs as part of a rehousing system
  • Centering the experience of partners with multiple perspectives, including communities most impacted by discrimination and racism (e.g., Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other intersectional identities and experiences) and those with lived experience of homelessness in the full cycle of planning, decision-making and implementation processes.
• Candidates should include experience gained through internships, volunteer work, lived experience of homelessness, and community involvement beyond paid positions related to homelessness.

What We Offer

We foster an environment where you can Thrive Your Way. Our innovative total rewards programs are designed to help balance your work and personal life. The approach toward your wellbeing centers around comprehensive benefits, flexible schedules, and professional development.

Abt Associates is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse workforce. Abt Associates provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits. Local candidates strongly encouraged to apply.

This position offers an anticipated annual base salary range of approximately $105 ,120 to $168 ,192 , and may vary by ten percent depending on candidate geographic location. Salary offers are made based on internal equity and market analysis.

Disclaimer: Abt Associates will never ask candidates for money in exchange for an offer of employment.

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