
Associate Director of Resource Navigation
- Houston, TX
- $95,000-110,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Programmatic Direction: Collaborate with organizational leadership to shape the Resource Navigation portfolio strategy, ensuring alignment with Connective's mission and translating big-picture goals into clear projects, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
- Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management: Build and sustain relationships with government, philanthropic, and nonprofit partners to advance Connective efforts and align around shared goals. Lead collective action and change processes to drive adoption of new strategies, technologies, and systems across Connective and its collaboratives.
- Program Design and Implementation: Lead the design and execution of human-centered social service programs that meet community needs while achieving programmatic excellence. Oversee and hold accountability for the successful delivery of projects, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement and addressing challenges
- Performance Monitoring: Implement and oversee performance measurement tools and systems to track and report on program outcomes, impact, and ROI.
- Continuous Improvement: Champion and instigate ongoing improvements to programs based on feedback, data-driven insights, and emerging best practices.
- Budget Management: Oversee the resource navigation portfolio budget, ensuring resources are allocated effectively and that financial targets are met.
- Personnel Management: Manage program managers, associates, and/or contracted vendors fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Support Business Development & Fundraising: Support organizational leadership in cultivating new opportunities by identifying and pursuing strategic partnerships, program innovations and supporting funding proposals that expand Connective's impact and ensure long-term sustainability.
- Equity Champion: You listen to historically marginalized communities, center their voices, and act against systemic barriers.
- User-centric: You're experienced in design thinking, empathize with people caught in red tape, and are always seeking information about an end user's needs and abilities.
- Entrepreneurial and independent: When tasked with something new you hit the ground running and proactively propose next steps.
- Strategic & Adaptable: You align daily work with big-picture goals, adjusting plans as new information emerges and taking action even when perfect information isn't available.
- Collaborative Partner: You excel at building strong relationships and facilitating collective efforts among diverse stakeholders and partners to achieve shared goals.
- Data-Informed Problem Solver: You use data and analysis tools to understand issues, make decisions, and present insights that drive action.
- 6+ years of experience in program management, project delivery, design strategy, or related roles- ideally within mission-driven or nonprofit environments.
- Proven ability to design and manage programs with significant CRM, data, or other technology components across their full lifecycle, from planning and execution to performance tracking.
- Experience engaging senior stakeholders and building cross-sector partnerships that drive collective action.
- Experience contributing to fundraising, business development, or partnership efforts to meet organizational goals.
- Preferred: Background in social services, human services, disaster recovery, or housing/resilience sectors, and/or familiarity with collaborative initiatives or backbone/intermediary roles.