
Job Location Crossroads - Oakland, CA 94621 Salary Range $150,000.00 - $170,000.00 Salary/year
EAST OAKLAND COMMUNITY PROJECT (EOCP)
Executive Director
With a focus on our community in East Oakland, EOCP is the first line of defense for people experiencing homelessness. We provide comprehensive and dignified services for what each person needs right now — we create a space of belonging and consistent support while they move towards realizing their long-term aspirations and growth.
Across the organization, we value diversity in all its forms, embrace initiative and a strong ethic of caring for others, and support personal growth and positive change. We work collaboratively and inclusively across residents, staff, board, and the greater community!
Position: Executive Director, East Oakland Community Project
Reports to: Board of Directors
Supervises: Senior Management Team, including the QA Director, HR Manager, Finance Controller, Managing Director of Transitional Housing Services, Managing Director of Family and Youth Shelter Services and Program Director at Crossroads.
Status: Full Time Employee, 90% on site, 10% at various locations
Scope of the Position
The Executive Director is responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, capacity building and programs. The Executive Director is the ultimate internal decisionmaker on operation decisions and checking with the Board of Directors on any decisions with larger policy implications for EOCP.
The Executive Director will work with the board and staff in ongoing assessment and evaluation of the effectiveness of EOCP’s services and administrative capacity, and in business planning, to identify program, financial, and infrastructure development goals and strategies. The Executive Director will work with the staff and board to meet goals, implement strategies and adjust as needed.
The Executive Director will need to an external face for EOCP and/or will determine whom to best involve when strategic external communications, partnerships, and fund development are needed.
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Our mission
EOCP empowers individuals and families who are homeless in Alameda County to regain a life of self-reliance. We provide dignified emergency and transitional housing and compassionate, comprehensive support services that prepare homeless people to successfully transition to well-being and sustainable permanent housing.
How EOCP Started:
East Oakland Community Project’s story begins as a grassroots support network that evolved into a sustainable community resource. In 1990, a group of community activists began the Mission Safe program in a vacant lot on East 14th Street. They provided street-level support — food, motel vouchers, and service referrals — to people experiencing homelessness. At the time, thousands of people had recently been displaced from their homes due to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, adding to the already existing crisis of minimal shelter for people experiencing homelessness in East Oakland. In response, the City of Oakland, Alameda County, and Mission Safe joined together to establish an emergency housing shelter that became known as the East Oakland Community Project.