Executive Director
Lead the IRC’s efforts in Texas to support refugees and asylum seekers.
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Overview
Lead the IRC’s efforts in Texas to support refugees and asylum seekers.
You have:
- Undergraduate degree required, advanced degree in related field preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible work experience with social services or humanitarian assistance programs; strong preference for previous experience with direct services delivery to clients in cross-cultural environments.
- Demonstrated staff management, program development, monitoring, evaluation, and advocacy experience.
- Authentic leadership: demonstrated ability to promote an organizational culture that reflects IRC’s core values of service, accountability, integrity, and equality.
- Successful and significant fundraising and grant writing experience.
- Financial management experience, including effective management of budgets.
- Proven people management and strong employee relationship-building skills; demonstrated ability to deliver results and translate words into action.
- Experience or background in working within unionized organizations is highly desired.
- Keen diplomatic and interpersonal skills; ability to enhance internal and external relationships, including with partners and donors.
- Ability to heighten the visibility of the office and programs, both within the IRC network and in the external environment.
- Superior organizational skills: ability to set priorities and effectively manage time in a fast-paced team environment.
- Proven digital literacy to include experience using MS Office.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 25%.
Potential interview questions
| How have you engaged with local leaders to advance organizational missions? | This question assesses your ability to build community relationships and support organizational goals. | Provide specific examples of community engagement and results achieved. |
| Can you describe your experience with strategic planning in a leadership role? | The interviewer wants to know your approach to planning and aligning team efforts with organizational objectives. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What successful fundraising strategies have you implemented in the past? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Describe a time when you had to manage a challenging team dynamic. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you ensure compliance with organizational policies in your team? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What experiences do you have in working with diverse, cross-cultural teams? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you build and maintain relationships with donors? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What steps would you take to enhance the visibility of the IRC’s programs? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
Added 1 year ago
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Updated 1 year ago
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Source:
rescue.org
