Permanency Programs Leader: Strategy, Impact & Systems

DePelchin Children’s Center; Edinburg (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Texans Together seeks a Permanency Program Administrator to provide executive leadership and operational oversight for permanency programs across the service region. You will guide teams, ensure safety and timely permanency, and collaborate with DFPS, courts, caregivers, providers, and community partners.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree, at least seven years in child welfare or related fields, and four years of supervisory leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum seven (7) years’ progressively responsible experience in child welfare, permanency, foster care, adoption, kinship, conservatorship, or related human services programs.
• Minimum four (4) years’ supervisory or senior leadership experience overseeing managers, supervisors, or multiple service programs.
• Experience developing strategic plans, monitoring performance outcomes, managing budgets, and leading organizational improvement efforts.

Responsibilities

• Provides supervision, coaching, mentorship, and performance management to senior managers and program leadership staff.
• Builds leadership capacity through reflective supervision, professional development, succession planning, and talent development.
• Establishes clear performance expectations and accountability measures that support high-quality service delivery and outcomes.
• Promotes a collaborative, strengths-based culture that supports employee engagement, retention, professional growth, and workforce stability.
• Ensures permanency programs promote safety, well-being, family engagement, lifelong connections, and timely permanency.
• Monitors permanency trends and outcomes related to reunification, kinship, guardianship, adoption, and other permanency goals.
• Promotes trauma-informed, culturally responsive, family-centered, and hope-centered practices across permanency programs.
• Ensures children and youth maintain meaningful family, sibling, and community connections when safe and appropriate.
• Identifies service gaps and barriers and leads strategies to strengthen permanency outcomes.
• Provides executive consultation and direction on complex, high-risk, or high-profile cases.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic planning

Change management

Coaching

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Budgeting software

Job description

Texans Together seeks a Permanency Program Administrator to provide executive leadership and operational oversight for permanency programs across the service region. You will guide teams, ensure safety and timely permanency, and collaborate with DFPS, courts, caregivers, providers, and community partners.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree, at least seven years in child welfare or related fields, and four years of supervisory leadership.