Senior Consultant – Homelessness and Human Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as a subject matter expert in homelessness and housing while leading BerryDunn’s implementation initiatives.

• Ensure project delivery is timely and within budget by managing plans, staff, status reporting, risks, quality, and deliverable acceptance.

• Convert the client’s strategic plan into prioritized actions, responsibilities, and measurable outcomes.

• Facilitate stakeholder engagement through trauma-informed, person-centered, and culturally responsive practices.

• Assist in organizational development, policies, processes, workforce readiness, training, and communications.

• Provide guidance to clients on complex challenges.

• Suggest service enhancements to improve access, coordination, continuity, and outcomes.

• Aid in data, technology, case management, and performance management enhancements.

• Foster community partnerships, collective impact, shared outcomes, and strategic coordination.

• Support funding strategies, diversification, grant development, and long-term sustainability.

• Create client-ready deliverables and implementation tools.

• Relay project status, risks, issues, and recommendations to project teams, client leadership, and stakeholders.

• Enhance client capacity to sustain new structures, processes, tools, and services.

• Uphold service and deliverable quality in accordance with BerryDunn’s Consulting Quality Management Program.

• Engage in business development activities, including proposal development.

• Contribute to staff development, team learning, and fostering a positive, collaborative HHS team culture.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in human services, social work, public health, public policy, public administration, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

• Over 8 years of experience with state, territory, or local government agencies or community-based organizations focused on homelessness, housing stability, poverty prevention, or related human services programs.

• Significant experience working directly with individuals and families facing homelessness and involving people with lived experience in program planning, service design, implementation, or continuous improvement.

• Knowledge of homelessness response systems, shelters, transitional housing, drop-in services, coordinated service delivery, referral networks, and person-centered approaches.

• Proven experience leading complex initiatives involving government agencies, nonprofit organizations, community partners, service providers, and diverse stakeholders.

• Strong project management and organizational abilities, including managing work plans, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, competing priorities, and deliverables.

• Experience in translating strategic plans, policies, needs assessments, and stakeholder input into actionable implementation plans, processes, tools, and measurable outcomes.

• Excellent facilitation and relationship-building skills, cultural humility, and sound judgment.

• Strong written communication abilities.

• Effective verbal communication and presentation skills.

• Client-focused approach with a capacity to maintain positive working relationships.

• Detail-oriented, accountable, adaptable, and capable of remaining calm and solutions-oriented.

• Passion for coaching, mentoring, and supporting junior team members.

• Willingness to work Guam business hours as necessary.

• Ability and readiness to travel to Guam and other client locations.

• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Project, and Visio.

🏝️ Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus contingent on company and individual performance.

• Comprehensive benefits promoting physical, mental, career, social, and financial well-being.

• Reasonable accommodations available for job applications, interviews, or essential job functions.

• Support for learning, development, and well-being initiatives.

• A diverse and inclusive workplace culture.