Independence & Housing Program Manager

Company Description : NAMI San Diego & Imperial Counties (National Alliance on Mental Illness) is a nonprofit organization that provides free education, support services, and advocacy to improve the quality of life of everyone affected by mental illnesses.

Primary Responsibilities / Function : The Program Manager of Independence and Housing works alongside the Director of Independence and Housing to plan, organize, and direct the day-to-day operations of the Department to ensure contract compliance, goal attainment and / or meeting benchmarks. The Department focuses on the operation of all street outreach teams and case management programs for those who are unhoused, homeless prevention and / or diversion strategies and all NAMI San Diego / Imperial Valley residential programs including but not limited to independent or communal living homes, transitional housing programs, non-congregate bridge programs, and shelter projects. The Program Manager will support in the departments strategic planning, personnel management, contract, and budget compliance, and will provide leadership with the program design-funding-implementation- evaluation cycle.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Recruits, supervises, trains, and recognizes department staff
• Directly supervises the NAMI Encampment Resolution Riverbed program and teams
• Will be in the field with Encampment Resolution team to ensure that project goals and deliverables are attained and to provide guidance to case management staff.
• Ensures department data is being tracked in the appropriate data entry systems in a timely and accurate manner and pull reports as needed to ensure the highest data quality,
• Ensure that all weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting is completed
• Lead monthly case conferencing meetings for each separate Encampment Resolution program's case load
• Collaborates with Program managers and Director to ensure department standards are met
• Support department director in generating and implementing internal processes, documents workflows and standardizing of Homeless Outreach Programs and residential programs
• Supports in budget adherence and spending
• Participates in the community relations efforts of NAMI San Diego / Imperial Counties.
• Attends required training, provides / secures training for employees, and ensures timely completion of training.
• Other duties as assigned.

Accountability : Reports to Director of Independence and Housing

Physical Demands : The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualified disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Requirements, including linguistic and cultural skills, education, experiences, licenses and certifications :

Due to our work with vulnerable populations and county contractor requirements, applicants will be required to undergo a background check following a contingent offer of employment and must receive satisfactory results prior to a final offer of employment. If you have any questions regarding this requirement, please feel free to reach out to .