Chief Program Officer: Strategic Impact & Alignment

Project Hospitality; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Project Hospitality in Staten Island, NY seeks a Chief Program Officer to provide executive leadership over a multi-program portfolio, directing the Deputy Chief Program Officers and the Community Impact Officer.

The role oversees program performance, compliance, and funder alignment, partnering with the CEO and senior leaders to strengthen sustainability and service delivery for vulnerable communities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree strongly preferred in social work, public administration, nonprofit management, human services, public health, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible senior leadership experience in nonprofit, human services, public sector, healthcare, housing, behavioral health, or community-based programs.
• Demonstrated experience supervising senior program leaders and overseeing complex, multi-program portfolios.
• Strong knowledge of contract management, program operations, compliance, quality assurance, performance metrics, and program budgeting.
• Experience leading programs funded by government, foundation, or institutional funders.
• Strong executive presence, communication skills, judgment, and ability to work closely with a CEO and executive leadership team.
• Demonstrated ability to strengthen systems, build accountability, manage change, and lead through complexity.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership and strategic oversight for Project Hospitality’s program portfolio through direct supervision of the Deputy Chief Program Officers and the Community Impact Officer.
• Ensure that program leaders are aligned, supported, accountable, and working collaboratively across departments.
• Serve as the senior executive responsible for program performance, service quality, program alignment, and mission impact.
• Partner closely with the CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Advancement Officer, Chief of Staff, and other executive leaders to strengthen organizational performance and sustainability.
• Provide clear analysis, recommendations, and solutions to the CEO regarding program risks, opportunities, staffing needs, service gaps, funding alignment, and operational priorities.
• Strengthen communication, coordination, and consistency across program areas.
• Directly supervise the Deputy Chief Program Officers and the Community Impact Officer.
• Clarify expectations, priorities, decision-making authority, and accountability across the senior program leadership structure.
• Support senior program leaders in managing their respective portfolios, teams, contracts, partnerships, outcomes, and service delivery responsibilities.
• Provide coaching, guidance, and executive-level problem-solving support to senior program leaders.
• Foster a culture of shared accountability, collaboration, respect, and performance excellence.
• Ensure that senior program leaders are effectively managing the programs, directors, staff, and services within their areas of responsibility.
• Ensure that programs operate in alignment with contractual, regulatory, licensing, compliance, quality, and funder expectations.
• Monitor program performance through senior program leaders, dashboards, reports, outcomes, audits, corrective action plans, and key performance indicators.
• Identify programmatic risks, service gaps, staffing challenges, contract concerns, and areas requiring executive attention.
• Ensure timely and accurate program information is available for executive decision-making, board reporting, funder engagement, and strategic planning.
• Promote a culture of program excellence, accountability, compassion, and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen coordination among program divisions to improve client pathways, reduce silos, and support integrated service delivery.
• Work with senior program leaders to ensure consistency in communication, referrals, documentation, service standards, and client-centered practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve systems, workflows, policies, procedures, and program infrastructure.
• Support alignment between housing, food and nutrition, wellness, recovery, youth, care management, community initiatives, and other program areas.
• Ensure program operations reflect trauma-informed, culturally responsive, client-centered, and community-based practices.
• Partner with Finance, Operations, Advancement, and senior program leaders to ensure program budgets, staffing models, contract deliverables, and service expectations are aligned.
• Review program performance in relation to funding requirements, staffing capacity, service goals, and organizational sustainability.
• Support the development, renewal, and implementation of government, foundation, and private funding opportunities in partnership with Advancement and Finance.
• Ensure program input for proposals, renewals, reports, site visits, audits, and funder communications is timely, accurate, and strong.
• Identify risks related to underperformance, contract compliance, funding gaps, staffing vacancies, or operational barriers.
• Support senior program leaders in strengthening team performance, supervision, communication, morale, and accountability.
• Help build leadership capacity among program executives, area directors, and emerging leaders.
• Promote a culture rooted in dignity, service excellence, collaboration, healing, and respect.
• Ensure program leaders are equipped to lead through change, manage complexity, and uphold Project Hospitality’s mission and values.
• Represent Project Hospitality with government agencies, funders, community partners, provider networks, coalitions, elected officials, faith communities, and other stakeholders as assigned.
• Support the CEO in strengthening strategic partnerships and advancing Project Hospitality’s role as a leading human services provider on Staten Island.
• Participate in funder meetings, site visits, public forums, and community conversations related to programs, client needs, service gaps, and community impact.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder communication

Team supervision

Policy & compliance

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Project Hospitality in Staten Island, NY seeks a Chief Program Officer to provide executive leadership over a multi-program portfolio, directing the Deputy Chief Program Officers and the Community Impact Officer.

The role oversees program performance, compliance, and funder alignment, partnering with the CEO and senior leaders to strengthen sustainability and service delivery for vulnerable communities.