With the implementation of this position, the City of Erfurt aims to establish the structures of local integration/refugee work in a sustainable way. The intention is to optimise the bundling and coordination of all central information and actors in the municipality. For this reason, the body is located centrally in the administrative structure. This interface function is also intended to make an important contribution to municipal governance support in the sense of coordinated and integrated poverty prevention. Following the phase in 2014/2015 of the rapid provision of community accommodation for the appropriate accommodation of asylum seekers, the State Capital will have to address the challenges of integration and social participation of refugees, continue its efforts to provide housing and create acceptance within the population. This requires a coordinated approach by the various actors in the field of integration/refugee work in order to target needs, to organise structures, to counter the emergence of any parallel structures and to be able to act as a local authority. During the project period, the integration manager is involved in the continuation of the integration concept and performs a systematised needs and structure analysis. It is examined which existing structures of integration/refugee work can be maintained or made more effective with the involvement of the integration manager. In addition, the position accompanies the further development of the project ‘Erfurt Hilfe!’. Special emphasis is placed on the internal and external coordination processes, e.g. with the specialist planning areas, the municipal office for migration and integration, the network for integration of the state capital Erfurt, the Centre for Integration and Migration, the projects ‘Thinka’, ‘Education Coordinator’, ‘Erfurt Help!’, the higher state offices.