Joining Down Home Ranch means becoming a ranch hand — being a part of running a working farm and ranch and at the same time help people with special needs. Employees who ride for the DHR brand love the country life style and values, and also enjoy being around, working with and helping people with Down syndrome and other disabilities. We are a community of opportunity, helping others become more resourceful, self-reliant, confident and happy in their lives. In this we take great professional pride and seek to invite others who share this noble calling into our working farm and ranch community. If you are interested in any of the opportunities listed below, download the employment application and click on each of the job description titles to download more information about each of them.

The Program Director is a Senior Management position reporting directly to the Executive Director; and serves as one of five members of Senior Staff. The Program Director oversees all aspects of the Down Home Ranch residential program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), providing the leadership, commitment and energy needed to develop and sustain an exemplary array of high quality services to residents with IDDs.

Resident Assistants enthusiastically share life, home, and community among people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) by providing them with instruction and guidance toward achieving greater independence. This is a live-in position for a male or a husband/wife managing a home for four men with intellectual/mental disabilities on a working ranch east of Austin, Texas. The RA reports to the Director of Programs.