Home Study and Post Release Services (HSPRS)

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. Founded in 1933, the IRC is at work today in over 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities. The IRC’s Resettlement, Asylum, and Integration (RAI) department creates opportunities for refugees and other vulnerable migrants to gain stability and control of their future. RAI serves more than 100,000 individuals each year, through a diverse portfolio of programs aimed at five core outcomes: Health, Safety, Economic Wellbeing, Education and Power.

SCOPE OF WORK:

The Director of Home Study and Post Release Services (HSPRS) oversees a large federal contract to provide services to unaccompanied children across a network of RAI US offices. In future years, this contract may also include diverse subcontracting partners. The Director will be the primary liaison for HSPRS programming with IRC Leadership and the Office of Refugee Resettlement. The Director will provide strategic-level oversight to ensure quality services, compliance with federal regulations, and achievement of grant commitments. In addition to direct supervision of senior staff, the Director will coordinate a multi-sectoral team of finance, operations, grants management, training, and quality assurance to help grow IRC offices' HSPRS programming, as well as provide remote direct service delivery. The Director advances IRC’s values in the protection sector, including ensuring that services and supports are trauma-informed, strengths-based, client- and survivor-centered, evidence-based, or evidence-informed and that staff implementing those programs have the technical capacity to deliver quality services. The Director will embody respect, collaboration, diversity, inclusiveness, anti-racism, and equity, both internally and externally.

Major Responsibilities:

Strategy, Policy and Leadership

- Lead the vision and strategy on scaling HSPRS services in the US. - Establish, implement, and monitor policies and protocols that ensure compliance with IRC’s contract obligations and the competent and ethical provision of HSPRS services to unaccompanied children. - Represent the IRC in fora related to unaccompanied children in the US, including national coalitions and working groups, convenings, and before funders and federal government stakeholders. - Report to RAI senior leadership on strategic, operational, programmatic, policy, and statistical issues on HSPRS programming and other issues related to unaccompanied children.

Program Management and Operations

- Overall strategic oversight, responsibility, and accountability for IRC’s HSPRS program and its outcomes. - Oversee HSPRS national budget, including in future years, possible subcontracts. - Launch IRC’s HSPRS effort as prime contractor with ORR, including all foundational start-up activities such as ensuring policies and procedures, manuals, onboarding, and compliance structures are developed and operationalized. - Oversee the recruitment, hiring and training of 4-6 management staff and ensure that they are managed in accordance with IRC’s People Manager Standards. - Supervise 4-6 senior-level staff. - Communicate regularly with Regional Directors, Deputry Regional Directors, Executive Directors, Deputy Directors, and HSPRS program leads in assigned local offices to support quality programming and ensure compliance with federal subcontracts. - Coordinate across financial, operations, grants management, service delivery, training, and quality assurance sectors.

Program Quality, Development & Evaluation

- Advance the launch of HSPRS programming in multiple IRC offices as well as remote services managed out of headquarters, ensuring high-quality implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of program efforts. - Provide guidance, oversight, training, and technical assistance to HSPRS program efforts, centering client needs and child protection best practices in problem-solving. - Ensure compliance with IRC’s federal contract as it relates to data collection and reporting. - 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.

Advocacy, Communications and External Relations

- Serve as an expert on issues impacting unaccompanied children, drawing on evidence and on-the-ground experience from IRC’s HSPRS programs. - Participate in national immigration coalitions and collaborate with Policy & Advocacy team on issues impacting unaccompanied children. - Maintain effective relationships with key government agencies (e.g. in Departments of Homeland Security State, Justice, Health and Human Services) - 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.

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. - 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.

Working Environment:

- A combination of standard office environment, remote work, and community-based work within the service delivery area to perform the above outlined responsibilities. - Travel 15% of the time.

Compensation: Posted pay ranges apply to US-based candidates. Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget. Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience and skills relative to the defined job requirements.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusivity: IRC is committed to building a diverse organization and a climate of inclusivity. We strongly encourage applications from candidates who can demonstrate that they can contribute to this goal.

Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances.

Professional Standards: The IRC and IRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Global Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti-Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

US Benefits: We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive set of benefits. In the US, these include: 10 sick days, 10 US holidays, 20-25 paid time off days (depending on role and tenure), medical insurance starting at $145 per month, dental starting at $7 per month, and vision starting at $5 per month, FSA for healthcare, childcare, and commuter costs, a 403b retirement savings plans with up to 4.5% immediately vested matching contribution, plus a 3-7% base IRC contribution (3 year vesting), disability & life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their families to support counseling and care in times of crisis and mental health struggles.

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