Housing & Homelessness Action Plan Project Manager

Approximate Duration:
18-24 months

This position currently falls within our hybrid model, allowing the employee to typically work a minimum of 50% of your time at your regular work location and the other 50% of time at home.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Associate Director Community Strategy, the Housing & Homelessness Action Plan Program Manager is accountable for the development, implementation and monitoring of the Housing and Homelessness Action Plan. Working in close collaboration with a wide range of community partners, this role will establish and manage relationships with community agencies, local planning bodies, other orders of government, service users, lived experts, and other interested and impacted parties, to establish local priorities, support implementation of actions, and monitor outcomes. The role will develop systems of engagement that will support community ownership and participation in the action plan while also ensuring that Niagara Region achieves its contractual and legislative requirements. This role oversees research in the area of housing and homelessness, delivers project management support, and facilitates information-sharing, data collection and analysis to support outcome evaluation. With an emphasis on upstream / outcome-based approaches, this role will identify linkages between divisions, departments and the community that result in aligned strategic investment, improved programs and services, and system improvements to enhance housing and homelessness.

Education and Knowledge

• A degree in Business/Public Administration/ Social Sciences, or equivalent
• Community Engagement and Public Engagement certificates are preferred
• A project management certification (PMP or CAPM), or equivalent combination of education, training and experience is preferred
• Minimum five years' experience in a Human / Social Services environment working with issues of poverty and/or homelessness / community housing
• Experience working collaboratively with multiple diverse community partners to improve service to clients
• Experience working in the public sector or for a non-profit organization
• Knowledge of community partners and programs related to housing and homelessness.
• Experience leading change initiatives within a community agency network
• Knowledge of collective impact/community development principles, and grant administration
• Knowledge of project management techniques/software, facilitation tools, and public engagement and consultation principles and techniques
• Facilitation skills required
• Presentation and media skills required
• Proficiency in all MS office applications (Visio, Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

Responsibilities

• Project Management: Strategy Development, Implementation and Monitoring.
• Establish and maintain governance structures that will support the implementation of the Housing and Homelessness Action Plan.
• Develop Internal and External Invested Parties' Relationships.
• Communication and Education Sharing.
• Responsible for monitoring best and emerging practices in affordable housing and homelessness to support conversations at taskforce and other tables.

Special Requirements

• Must maintain ability to travel in a timely manner to other offices, work locations or sites as authorized by the Corporation for business reasons.
• Regional staff strive to enable the strategic priorities of council and the organization through the completion of their work. Staff carry out their work by demonstrating the corporate values.

Closing Statement

To view the full job description and requirements, visit our Careers page -
Job Opening #44154.

Let us know why you would be an excellent team member by submitting your online
application no later than January 18, 2026, before midnight
by visiting our 'Careers' page on our website. We thank all candidates for their interest however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.