PRS PROGRAM DIRECTOR

We’re hiring a Program Director at PASO Home Study/Post Release Services Program in Tucson, Arizona, an affiliate of Rite of Passage. Our employees help people seeking safety from persecution in their home countries and reunite families torn apart by conflict. Combined with our residential programs we resettle and protect vulnerable children who arrive unaccompanied in the United States. We advocate for compassion and justice for all migrants. Joining our team is more than just a job, it’s an opportunity to create a meaningful career with a company driven by its powerful mission to make a difference.

Major Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility and accountability for PASO's HSPRS program and its outcomes.
• Coordinate both programmatic and financial elements for the services provided to Unaccompanied Children through the HSPRS program.
• Advance the provision of high quality HSPRS services including the overall implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of program efforts.
• Act as the main liaison between ORR and its regional staff.
• Educate and liaise with PASO leadership, HSPRS staff, and other internal and external stakeholders about the needs of Unaccompanied Children and services provided through HSPRS.
• Advance efforts to develop additional in-kind and other donations to provide critical direct assistance to support the basic needs of Unaccompanied Children.
• Engage in analysis of protection trends, gaps, and opportunities, with an eye to exploring how intra- and inter-agency partnerships and approaches could create collective and positive impact in the lives of Unaccompanied Children.
• Oversee the recruitment, hiring and training of 4-6 management staff and ensure that they are managed in accordance with PASO's Standards.
• Ensure the tracking, compilation and analysis of key program performance indicators and outcomes so that the HSPRS program can demonstrate impact.
• Contribute to selecting, promoting, tracking, and analyzing additional protection program indicators.
• Identify new evidence and best practices and contribute ideas and analysis to promote positive impact and enhance service delivery to Unaccompanied Children in HSPRS programming.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Job Requirements:

• Must have a master’s degree in social work or an equivalent in education, psychology, sociology, or other relevant behavioral science; or a bachelor’s degree in one of the sciences plus at least five years of relevant employment experience that demonstrates advanced levels of supervisory experience and financial management experience.
• Bilingual in English/Spanish (written and verbal)
• At least 21 years of age.
• At least five years of program management experience, including both financial and managerial responsibilities.
• At least three years of HSPRS management experience.
• Advanced knowledge of social services for Unaccompanied children, asylum seekers, and trafficking victims.
• Knowledgeable about family preservation, kinship care, and/or general child welfare.
• Strong teambuilding skills, and the ability to create good processes and systems, sustainable solutions, and accountability.
• Ability to think strategically and creatively.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational skills with ability to juggle multiple tasks, set priorities, effectively manage time, and meet deadlines, and proven ability to work under pressure.

Experience

• 1 year(s): Child welfare
• 5 year(s): Program Management

• 3 year(s): Home study/Post release services

Education

• Masters or better in Social Work or related field

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)