Jonathan Alexander S.

About Jonathan Alexander S.

Presently I serve as the Deputy Chief Program Officer of Systems and Regional Planning at the LA Family Housing where I work on streamlining the referral process, connecting Los Angeles’ most vulnerable neighbors experiencing homelessness to supportive housing as quickly as possible and create a network of providers. Some highlights include;• Increasing the CoC’s Permanent Supportive Housing portfolio utilization by 8%• Helped create the Resource Management System (RMS) to track all the permanent housing resources filled by the Coordinated Entry System (CES)• Guiding the housing inventory reconciliation and entry process that entered over supportive housing units and subsidies into the Resource Management System• Adding and training a team of skilled Document Specialist to the Project Roomkey portfolioI currently also serve as the Chair to the Planning Commission for the city of Huntington Park. In this role I work closely with the city council and their administrative staff, offering advice pertaining to the physical development of the city. In this role I help lead the recommendations, adoption, implementation, and periodical review of the General Plan. This role allows me to represent the community in a lead advisory body that determines the uses of property in the city and what form and shape the community will take in the future. Colleagues know me as highly creative, someone who can always be trusted to come up with a new approach to problems. I have a proven track record of event planning and execution in various fields. I am extremely driven and a quick learner, motivated by the feeling of accomplishment when completing projects or goals.I can be reached through this profile for new opportunities.Views are my own and do not reflect an official position of my employer.

Experience

1. Program Officer, Homelessness

   Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

   Mar 2023 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Supports the Foundation\'s grantmaking in the Homelessness Initiative, which works to realize a Los Angeles where homelessness is rare, brief, and non-reoccurring. Report to the Senior Program Officer (SPO), serve as a thought partner and responsible for managing individual grants in the Initiative\'s portfolio. Closely work with the SPO to design, implement, and monitor a portfolio of grants in alignment with the implementation of the board approved strategy. The Officer helps to identify potential grantees, assist with proposal development, and provide grantee technical support, as well as monitor grant progress.

Education

• University of California, Los Angeles

  Bachelor's degree, Chicano Studies: Law, Labor and Policy

  2009 — 2012