Analytics Consultant - Homelessness Response

This job will remain open until October 30, 2025.

Company Overview

Focus Strategies is a national consulting firm based on the West Coast dedicated to helping communities improve efforts to end homelessness through community-based planning, informed by local data and national best practices. For more than 18 years, we have provided consulting to jurisdictional and community leadership in communities across the country to support their efforts to reduce homelessness.

We are dedicated to partnering with communities through strategic consulting and technical assistance to design and implement housing-focused, equity-informed, and person-centered solutions that reduce homelessness. We are committed to working with our clients to understand their community’s context, including the experience and dynamics of homelessness in the region as well as the unique strengths and challenges of existing strategies. Together, we partner with our clients to develop programs, create strategic action plans, identify policy solutions, and evaluate efforts to improve outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.

Position Overview

Analytics Consultants at Focus Strategies achieve our mission by providing high-level and high-quality analyses for our client communities, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods projects using an equity lens and a systems approach. The day of an analytics consultant includes project management, conducting key research and analyses related to homeless systems and programs, identifying key questions for analysis, methodologies to approach the analysis, and interpretation of findings. Our calendars on Monday will look significantly different from the way things turn out by Friday and we are comfortable with changing priorities and ambiguity. While we may be leading project staff, working closely with internal and external stakeholders, or preparing draft and final deliverables on time and on budget, we are always striving for excellence. We are trusted to lead communities in reducing homelessness by making strategic shifts that have high stakes. It’s a serious responsibility and every day we feel like we’re making a difference of which we are proud.

Responsibilities

• Lead data analysis efforts for communities working to reduce homelessness, using an equity lens and a systems approach.
• Represent client interests in meetings to identify and resolve problems, including speaking publicly in formal and informal settings.
• Develop project plans, manage projects, and work collaboratively to achieve superior results for Focus clients.
• Support a range of community planning and design activities to develop systems to end or reduce homelessness, including community input processes, data collection and analysis, documentation of existing and proposed system processes and structures.
• Conduct research and analyze data from single systems (e.g. homelessness) and multiple disciplines, including health, mental health, homelessness, and affordable housing.
• Synthesize research findings into recommendations for practice.
• Develop and implement initiatives to analyze the capacity needs of supportive and affordable housing systems within the context of reducing homelessness and addressing racial and other inequities.
• Work closely and collaboratively with supervisor and company leadership to set priorities, independently organize project workflow, conduct project management and analytic tasks, and provide timely updates.
• Work collaboratively with staff at client and partner organizations to collect and accurately interpret information.
• Actively participate in continuous learning, process, and product improvement efforts with the Focus team.
• Potential future state : Supervise one or more Analysts, including directing their work and providing an opportunity for continued growth and team effectiveness.

Requirements

Preferred skills and aptitudes

Physical requirements

Location : Remote; Pacific Time Zone, United States (preferably California)

Reports to : Senior Analytics Consultant

Status : Full-time, exempt

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and in alignment with our company values, we strive to attract and maintain a workplace that reflects a broad spectrum of diversity.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, conviction history, uniform service membership / veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical conditions (including cancer-related and genetic characteristics), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression regardless of physical gender, or any other consideration that is unrelated to job duties or prohibited by law.

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