Description
Los Angeles County
EXECUTIVE CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Head, Office Of Unincorporated Services and Strategies (UC), Homeless Services and Housing
The County of Los Angeles
The County of Los Angeles serves a demographically and geographically diverse population of more than 10 million residents. Employing over 100,000 employees in 39 departments who work in roles as broad as law, civil engineering, public safety, healthcare, and human services, the County operates with an annual budget of over $52 billion for fiscal year 2025-2026. The County is a Fair Chance employer, committed to diversity and inclusiveness in its workforce. It is a culturally diverse economic and cultural hub, driving major elements of the national and world economies. It is the center for arts, media, and entertainment – unlike anywhere else.
The Department
On April 1, 2025, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to establish a new department dedicated exclusively to addressing homelessness, the Department of Homeless Services and Housing (HSH). This decision created an unparalleled opportunity to build an effective, transparent, and accountable infrastructure for delivering a comprehensive response to homelessness across the County.
Officially launched on July 1, 2025, HSH is designed to:
- Consolidate and centralize fragmented efforts that had previously been spread across multiple County departments.
- Streamline accountability by placing direct oversight under a single Director who reports to the Board of Supervisors.
- Focus on achieving clearly defined, performance-based outcomes that prioritize impact, equity, and efficiency.
- Create transparent processes and measurable results to ensure progress is visible to the Board, stakeholders, and the public.
This new structure positions HSH to address both the immediate needs of people experiencing homelessness and the root causes driving housing instability, through proven and innovative strategies. The department will:
- Expand housing pipelines and supportive housing programs.
- Strengthen partnerships with County agencies, cities, and community-based organizations. Align investments with prevention-focused strategies.
- Incorporate an equity-centered framework to close disparities for historically underserved populations.
- With its launch, HSH represents the County’s most ambitious and unified approach yet to preventing and ending homelessness, while ensuring accountability and transparency in the use of public resources.
The Opportunity
The Department of Homeless Services & Housing seeks a strategic, equity-driven executive to lead homelessness prevention and response efforts in the County’s unincorporated areas. This role advances Board-directed priorities to strengthen coordination, accountability, and service delivery in unincorporated communities. The position leads strategy, funding alignment, stakeholder engagement, and performance-driven implementation in partnership with Board offices, County departments, service providers, and community stakeholders during a critical period of County response.
Key Responsibilities
- Direct all activities of the Office of Unincorporated Services & Strategies, including planning, implementation, administration, and evaluation of homelessness initiatives.
- Oversee and evaluate the work of subordinate managers and staff; provide leadership, direction, and accountability across programs and functions.
- Direct the assessment of community needs and the development of strategies to reduce homelessness in unincorporated areas, including regular engagement in communities to build trusted relationships, understand resident concerns firsthand, and inform County strategies.
- Develop, implement, and interpret policies, procedures, and strategies; advise executive leadership and Board offices on policy and program matters.
- Direct the development and management of budgets, funding strategies, contracts, and grants to ensure alignment with County priorities.
- Direct coordination across County departments, housing authorities, service providers, and regional partners to support integrated service delivery.
- Represent the Department with Board offices, community stakeholders, governmental agencies, and the public.
- Direct data strategy, including performance metrics, reporting, and evaluation, to ensure accountability and inform decision-making.
- Direct the development and dissemination of public resources and information related to homelessness services.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in public administration, business administration, public policy, social work, urban planning, behavioral sciences, or a closely related field.
- Four (4) years of progressively responsible management experience leading, managing, or overseeing complex programs, initiatives, or operations in homelessness, housing, human services, or a closely related field, including responsibility for staff, budgets, contracts, and strategic efforts.
- A valid California Class “C” Driver’s License or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation when needed to carry out job-related essential functions.
Desirables
- Demonstrated experience leading highly effective, place-based community engagement efforts, including building trusted relationships with residents, businesses, community-based organizations, and individuals with lived experience; facilitating inclusive processes that elevate community voice into decision-making; and translating community input into actionable policies, funding priorities, and measurable outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to work across matrixed systems to drive progress, providing strategic guidance and navigating competing priorities to ensure aligned actions and responsive results.
- Strong fiscal and funding alignment expertise, including managing and coordinating multiple funding streams to maximize impact and advance measurable outcomes.
- Excellent communicator with the ability to translate complex data, systems, and challenges into digestible information for diverse community members and key stakeholders; bilingual skills are highly desirable to support effective engagement with residents and stakeholders in Los Angeles County’s unincorporated communities.
- A demonstrated commitment to advancing equity, including experience addressing disproportionality, embedding equity goals into funding and policy decisions, and credibly engaging disproportionately impacted communities on a personal level.
Compensation
Starting annual salary will depend on qualifications and career accomplishments. This is an unclassified (atwill) position and is subject to the provisions of the County’s Management Appraisal and Performance Plan (MAPP) at R14 ($163,997 to $255,048)
Benefits
The County provides an excellent benefits package that allows employees to choose benefits that meet their specific needs. The package includes:
- Retirement Plan – The successful candidate will participate in a defined benefit plan.
- Cafeteria Benefit Plan – Benefits may be purchased from the MegaFlex Cafeteria Benefit Plan using a tax-free County contribution of an additional 14.5% of the employee’s monthly salary.
- Flexible Spending Accounts – In addition to tax-free medical and dependent care spending accounts, the County contributes $75 per month to the Dependent Care Spending Account.
- Savings Plan (401k) – Optional tax-deferred income plan that may include a County matching contribution of up to 4% of the employee’s salary.
- Deferred Compensation Plan (457) – Optional tax-deferred income plan that may include a County matching contribution of up to 4% of the employee’s salary.
- Non-Elective Days – 10 paid days per year with the option to buy elective annual leave days. Annual leave can be used for vacation sick, or personal leave.
- Holidays – 13 paid days per year.
How to Apply
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. First consideration will be given to applications received by April 9, 2026.
To apply, please submit a letter of interest and a detailed résumé via the County’s online application system: https://bit.ly/47CcbM8
For confidential inquiries, please contact:
Tom Britt
Executive Recruiter | Talent Acquisition Division
Los Angeles County Department of Human Resources
(213) 330-6067
