Sr. Manager, Permanency

Sr. Manager, Permanency

CVS Program Director

Full-time, Exempt

Permanency Program Administrator

Texans Together

Regions 6a and/or 6b (Specific work locations will be assigned and communicated as staffing plans are finalized)

The Sr. Manager, Permanency provides strategic leadership, operational oversight, and program direction for permanency, conservatorship, reunification, kinship, foster care, and related child welfare services. This position is responsible for ensuring high-quality program implementation, regulatory compliance, performance management, staff development, and achievement of permanency outcomes across the Texans Together service region. The Sr. Manager oversees supervisors, teams, and program initiatives while ensuring alignment with Community-Based Care requirements, state and federal regulations, accreditation standards, and organizational goals.

This position serves as a key partner with DFPS, courts, legal stakeholders, service providers, caregivers, and community partners to strengthen services and improve outcomes for children and families.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for permanency and child welfare programs across service region in alignment with Texans Together's mission and Community-Based Care objectives.
• Develop, implement and evaluate program strategies, initiatives, and operational goals to improve child safety, well-being, placement stability, family engagement, and permanency outcomes.
• Ensure program operations and service delivery comply with applicable contractual, licensing, regulatory, and organizational requirements.
• Monitor program performance, caseloads, workforce utilization, service quality, and outcome data to identify trends, risks, barriers, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and implement corrective actions and continuous improvement strategies to address performance, compliance, and service delivery concerns.
• Participate in organizational planning, budgeting, resource allocation, and strategies supporting program growth and sustainability.
• Direct, supervise, coach, and evaluate supervisory-level staff and provide oversight of associated program teams.
• Establish clear performance expectations and accountability while fostering a culture of servant leadership, collaboration, employee engagement, and continuous professional growth.
• Support recruitment, retention, workforce development, and succession planning to maintain a qualified and effective workforce.
• Ensure effective case practice and timely permanency planning, including family engagement, visitation, placement stability, reunification, kinship, guardianship, adoption, and lifelong connections.
• Provide leadership and consultation on complex, high-risk, high-profile cases, critical incidents, and barriers affecting child safety and permanency.
• Promote trauma-informed, culturally responsive, strengths-based, and family-centered practices throughout service delivery.
• Advance Texans Together’s Community-Based Care model through collaboration with DFPS, providers, courts, governmental agencies, and other child welfare partners.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with community stakeholders and represent Texans Together in meetings, councils, forums, and collaborative initiatives.
• Support regional efforts to strengthen placement capacity, provider networks, community resources, and access to services for children and families.
• Oversee quality assurance, case reviews, performance monitoring, continuous quality improvement, and required program reporting.
• Ensure accurate, timely, and complete documentation and reporting in accordance with agency,…