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About the Role

The Program Director leads Endeavors’ Austin Refugee Program, supporting newcomers through reception, placement, and integration. This role is accountable for daily operations, staff leadership, compliance, quality assurance, fiscal stewardship, and community partnerships, ensuring core services and outcomes are met.

Responsibilities

• Align annual work plans for the Austin Refugee Program with contract requirements and local needs.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team providing case management, employment services, health and benefits navigation, education and youth services, housing navigation, volunteer and community engagement, and data/reporting.
• Maintain a client-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive practice.
• Ensure timely and complete delivery of core services for arriving cases.
• Oversee Matching Grant, PIR, PC, and related programs, ensuring eligibility, service plans, case notes, follow-up, and timely exits meet funder definitions of self-sufficiency and retention.
• Establish workflows for rapid Social Security, EAD, school enrollment, primary care linkage, immunizations, mental health referrals, and public benefits applications.
• Ensure appropriate use of interpreters, ADA accommodations, confidentiality, safeguarding, and duty-to-report requirements.
• Build and steward partnerships with HIAS, local school districts, health systems, mental health providers, Workforce Solutions, adult education and ESL providers, legal services, faith communities, mutual aid groups, and ethnic community-based organizations.
• Lead landlord and housing partnerships to expand safe, affordable options, negotiate leases, and manage risk mitigation supports.
• Represent Endeavors in coalitions and public forums in the Austin area.
• Develop MOUs and referral pathways with clear roles and warm handoffs.
• Ensure complete, accurate, and timely data entry in required systems.
• Lead regular file reviews, data validation, outcome tracking, incident reviews, and corrective action plans.
• Submit accurate invoices, reimbursement requests, and program reports by deadline.
• Use dashboards to monitor arrivals, caseloads, service timeliness, self-sufficiency outcomes, housing stability, employment retention, and client satisfaction.
• Manage program budgets, purchasing, and client assistance in compliance with allowability, documentation, and audit standards.
• Forecast staffing and operating needs, track burn rate, and escalate risks early.
• Support proposal development, renewals, and site visits or monitoring.
• Oversee a structured volunteer program, including co-sponsorship groups, mentors, tutors, drivers, and donation management.
• Maintain policies and training on child safety, vulnerable adult protections, emergency procedures, transportation safety, and incident reporting.
• Ensure staff complete required onboarding and annual training.
• Hire, onboard, and supervise staff.
• Provide coaching, performance evaluations, and professional development.
• Maintain equitable workloads, coverage plans, and clear escalation pathways.
• Foster a respectful, learning-oriented team culture.

Requirements

• Must have at least four years of experience working with refugee or migrant populations and understand resettlement best practices, or quality assurance or compliance.
• Understanding of fundamental client management techniques including determining eligibility, assessing needs, identifying resources, making referrals, and conducting follow-ups.
• English fluency required.
• Fluency in one of the following languages is preferred: Dari, Pashto, Spanish, Swahili, or French.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including good communication skills, listening skills, and attitude.
• Ability to work independently and exercise a high level of confidentiality.
• Driver’s License with clear record required.
• Must have daily use of a vehicle without prior notice.
• Must be available and willing to travel to various locations (30-40%) and with such frequency as the business need dictates.
• Must be available and willing to work nights, weekends and holidays as required to meet business needs.
• Willingness to perform other duties as required.
• Must not pose a direct threat or significant risk of substantial harm to the safety or health of himself/herself or others.
• EXCEPTIONS TO THESE CRITERIA MUST BE APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT HEAD.

Skills

• Case management
• Employment services
• Health and benefits navigation
• Education and youth services
• Housing navigation
• Volunteer and community engagement
• Data management
• Reporting
• Client-centered practice
• Trauma-informed care
• Cultural responsiveness
• Language access
• Matching Grant program oversight
• PIR program oversight
• PC program oversight
• Social Security application processes
• EAD application processes
• School enrollment processes
• Primary care linkage
• Immunization processes
• Mental health referrals
• Public benefits applications
• Interpreter utilization
• ADA accommodations
• Confidentiality
• Safeguarding
• Duty-to-report
• Partnership building
• Community integration
• Landlord relations
• Lease negotiation
• Risk mitigation
• Coalition representation
• Public forum representation
• MOU development
• Referral pathway development
• Data entry
• File review
• Data validation
• Outcome tracking
• Incident review
• Corrective action planning
• Invoice submission
• Reimbursement request submission
• Program report submission
• Dashboard utilization
• Budget management
• Purchasing
• Client assistance management
• Proposal development
• Volunteer program management
• Screening
• Training
• Supervision
• Policy maintenance
• Onboarding
• Performance evaluation
• Professional development
• Workload management
• Coverage planning
• Escalation pathway management
• Team culture fostering
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills
• Listening skills
• Independent work
• Confidentiality
• Project management

Location

• Remote Texas - Austin, TX 78701

Work Type

• Full-Time
• Remote

Experience Level

• Four or more years of progressive leadership experience in refugee resettlement, immigrant integration, human services, or community-based programs with multifunder compliance
• Four years of progressive project management experience on projects demonstrating advanced level of financial and managerial responsibilities

Education Level

• Bachelors Degree
• Bachelor’s degree in social work or an equivalent degree in education, psychology, sociology, or other relevant behavioral science

Salary/Compensations

• $77,000.00 - $83,000.00 Salary/year

About the Company

• Endeavors’ Austin Refugee Program supports refugees, asylees, SIVs, parolees, and other eligible newcomers.