Eviction Data Response Network Advisor

New America • Washington, DC

4d • $70,326 - $86,658 • Hybrid

About The Position

New America’s Future of Land and Housing Program (FLH) works to solve land, housing, and property rights challenges both domestically and internationally. Through research, writing, and convening, we strive to bring technologists, policymakers, advocates, and researchers into the same room to help find solutions to vexing challenges in the housing and land rights space. In our domestic work, we examine the causes and impacts of housing loss, affordable homeownership and the intersections between housing security and climate change, with a particular focus on the impact of structural factors like racism, poverty, and environmental injustice. We take a data-driven approach to understand where housing instability is most acute, who is most impacted, and why; and we communicate these findings to policymakers and advocates, helping to develop solutions.
FLH is looking for a candidate to help advance its U.S. land and housing portfolio, which currently focuses on housing loss and insecurity, eviction data, access to affordable homeownership, and the intersections between housing and climate change.
This position supports the Eviction Data Response Network (EDRN), which focuses on creating the country’s first large-scale, state-level eviction data infrastructure. EDRN accomplishes this through:
Building durable eviction data pipelines that provide reliable, comprehensive, and regularly updated data on evictions statewide; and
Standing up multi-sector problem-solving teams that use that data to craft policy and practice interventions that measurably reduce evictions.
The ideal candidate is passionate about implementation of large scale change efforts, particularly for housing stability, with experience in coaching partners and supporting learning networks. Familiarity with court eviction data, eviction processes and housing stability are preferred. The candidate should be a self-starter and a good multi-tasker, and capable of working in a fast paced environment on a small, agile team, acting as a primary liaison between the state stakeholders in the EDRN and our team. The candidate should thrive on celebrating wins, driving towards improvement and actionable follow-ups acting as a coach to bring out the best in our EDRN cohort.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or higher;
• Minimum 5-7 years relevant experience, preferably in a U.S. housing, urban planning, public policy, public health, judicial operations, legal aid or a related field;
• Strong and proven project management skills. In particular, the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, strong organizational skills, time management, and attention to detail including familiarity with project management software and frameworks;
• Expertise on evictions, court data or related housing data;
• Excellent facilitation, presentation, and communication skills;
• Entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm for finding creative and unique approaches and opportunities;
• Competence with data frameworks, evaluation and participating in structured networks;
• Demonstrated interest in or dedication to fostering equitable outcomes across society, and especially for lower-income communities, communities of color, and other historically marginalized constituencies;
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of collaborative teams including both internal and external partners;
• Curiosity, eagerness, and ability to develop new knowledge and skills; and
• Ability to travel up to 20%.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with court eviction data, eviction processes and housing stability are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serving as the primary liaison between New America’s FLH team and several EDRN state partners, responsible for adeptly guiding them through their aims and milestones
• Duties will include structuring and executing monthly 1-1 coaching meetings, convening quarterly cohort calls, planning virtual and annual in-person partner convenings;
• Drive strategy and progress towards EDRN goals with state partners by ensuring project scopes, timelines and work plans are always up to date for relevant projects and assignments;
• Develop knowledge and policy products based on EDRN experiences, creating a feedback loop to enhance cohort experience while making connections between states and national technical assistance;
• Troubleshoot data-related barriers including data governance, data sharing, analysis and court filing collection;
• Interface with contracted technologists to support tech-enabled solutions for EDRN cohort partners and partner with colleagues on technology solutions for collecting and analyzing court eviction data;
• Monitor evaluation and learning, ensuring the initiative generates evidence of impact and insights that can scale nationwide;
• Convene and facilitate in-person workshops with associated logistics and agenda planning.
• In addition to supporting EDRN, which is the core function of this role, the balance of time will be focused on supporting the FLH team, including but not limited to contributing to the design and implementation of FLH’s domestic housing work, communicating with internal and external teams as well as additional responsibilities and duties as needed.

Benefits

• New America offers a highly competitive benefits package that includes health care, dental, and vision coverage; a generous retirement plan; paid time off; observes all federal holidays; and an office-wide closure between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level