Senior Program Officer, Housing

About Tipping Point 

Tipping Point’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty for people in the Bay Area who don’t have the resources to meet their basic needs. Since 2005, Tipping Point has invested nearly $350 million for housing, early childhood, education, and employment solutions in the region. Our board covers 100% of our operating costs, so every dollar donated goes where it’s needed most. Last year, 500,000 people in the Bay Area connected with our grantees. Visit www.tippingpoint.org to learn more.

Values

Tipping Point’s core values are at the heart of everything we do and we look for individuals who share our commitments:

• We cultivate community because we know we are more powerful together.
• We practice gratitude.
• We hold ourselves accountable to achieving impact for and with the communities we serve.
• We relentlessly pursue equity because one’s background and identities should not predetermine one’s opportunities.

Position Overview

Tipping Point Community seeks a Senior Program Officer, Housing with a passion for changing the landscape of poverty and philanthropic giving in the Bay Area. The Senior Program Officer will oversee the strategy for Tipping Point’s housing issue area, which is rooted in grantmaking to nonprofit providers, but also includes other types of investments and policy or systems-change initiatives. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of housing and homelessness research and interventions, strong understanding of nonprofit organizations, experience designing and/or evaluating programs, and expertise building relationships in diverse organizations and communities. The Senior Program Officer must be a self-starter and able to think strategically and about the broader ecosystem, as well as dig in with individual grantees. They will manage relationships with current grantees, screen and perform diligence on prospective housing investments, and recommend new investments and partnerships. The Senior Program Officer will work closely with the grantmaking team to share learnings, help refine Tipping Point’s grantmaking approach, and assess to what extent our efforts are reducing poverty in the Bay Area.

This position reports directly to the Chief Program Officer. 

What will you do?

Strategy + Content/Issue Area Knowledge 

• Develop, implement, and continually refine an actionable strategy for a grantmaking portfolio, including a policy agenda and specific and quantifiable impact targets. 
• Through research and connections with experts in the field, inform strategy and help team to stay current on the issue and innovative solutions. 

Grantee Relationship Management + Support 

• Serve as primary contact, relationship manager and thought partner for grantees. 
• Work with grantees to set annual performance goals in order to increase client impact. 
• Monitor and support progress toward grant goal achievement. 
• Identify support and resources that grantees need; work with team and partners to deliver management assistance. 
• Perform annual renewal process and recommend support based on client impact and progress on grant goals. 
• Identify, communicate, and address grantee misalignment and/or underperformance. 

Pipeline Management + New Grantee Diligence 

• Maintain knowledge of prospective issue area grantees and partners; perform due diligence as appropriate, and propose new investments to Tipping Point’s board. 
• Gain understanding of comparable organizations and promising practices to assess the relative strengths and challenges of potential grantees. 

Evaluation, Impact + Continuous Learning 

• Capture grantee activities and data in Salesforce. 
• Meet regularly with grantees to understand and diagnose key organizational and programmatic successes and challenges, including progress on outcomes targets. 
• Recommend concrete actions to strengthen grantees’ capture and use of data, and improve efficacy. 
• Seek opportunities to learn from and share new grantmaking and evaluation approaches. 
• Share successes and failures to inform the team’s learning and improvement. 
• Develop a research agenda to inform portfolio strategy, including core investments, policy opportunities, and potential future initiatives. 

Stakeholder Engagement 

• Build and maintain peer funder and other community relationships. 
• Create opportunities to collaborate and network among all Tipping Point grantees. 
• Highlight grantees’ and Tipping Point’s work and impact with key stakeholders. 
• Attend select Tipping Point board meetings and events as ambassadors of grantees and Tipping Point. 
• Serve as primary liaison for portfolio board committee, presenting proposals for approval on a quarterly basis, and keeping committee members informed of key programmatic and field-specific developments. 

All other duties as assigned.