  We study the prescribed Ricci curvature problem for homogeneous metrics.
Given a (0,2)-tensor field $T$, this problem asks for solutions to the equation
$\mathrm{Ric}(g)=cT$ for some constant $c$. Our approach is based on examining
global properties of the scalar curvature functional whose critical points are
solutions to this equation. We produce conditions for a general homogeneous
space under which it has a global maximum. Finally, we study the behavior of
the functional in specific examples to illustrate our result.
