Program Director

Overview

The Program Director is responsible for providing supervision, training and capacity-building, oversight of staff and center operations, and community partnership building at the Jamaica Plain Peer Recovery Center. The Program Director will report to the Director of Recovery Services or their designee for support and supervision.

Location : The JP Recovery Center is a ‘recovery-oriented sanctuary anchored in the heart of the community,’ delivering peer-to-peer recovery support services, and providing a safe, supportive, healing space for individuals in recovery. The Center uses a volunteer / member base, guided by peer staff, to deliver services and provide multiple pathways to recovery.

Essential Functions

• Act in accordance with Victory Programs Standards of Excellence & Philosophy Care, including maintaining professional ethics, boundaries, and client confidentiality, and working from a strength-based perspective.
• Provide an ethical framework for service delivery, with guidelines, policies, procedures, and practices consistent with peer values.
• Provide regular orientation on the basics of a peer model for all members and staff.
• Provide structured, varied program offerings and accessible calendars including Recovery Capital-building activities, Social Events & Fun activities both at the center and out in the community.
• Provide Outreach & Advocacy activities with regular opportunities for members to participate in community events, where they can “give back”, share their lived experiences and reduce stigma as they outreach to folks in or seeking recovery, and inform others about the center.
• Conduct Community Meetings that welcome all to attend and learn about the center while providing members opportunities to receive updates, vote, volunteer, share ideas, provide feedback, and direct programming and activities.
• Offer multiple Pathways to Recovery including an array of existing and emerging recovery support programs and groups.
• Provide ongoing Volunteer and Peer Leader recruitment, orientation, and skills development.
• Provide supervision, mentoring and regular volunteer recognition.
• Oversee member Management, including maintenance of member contact information and enrollment in ESM to ensure assertive engagement and re-engagement with members.
• Responsible for implementation of a recovery-oriented data collection management tool for enhanced membership data and program management.
• Develop and distribute marketing materials in the community to promote services.
• Collaborate and partner with community organizations, leaders and local treatment and recovery support service providers, coalitions and task forces, career centers and / or employment / housing organizations and criminal justice departments to promote the availability of the center, represent the recovery community, advocate for recovery, and ensure linkages to resources, supports, programs and services that benefit and address life needs of the membership.
• Enforce all policies and procedures of Victory Programs, Inc.
• Work with the finance department to complete budgets, approve accounts payable, and monitor financial statements to stay within budget.
• Work collaboratively with all staff to provide individualized services to all clients.
• Provide regular supervision to the Program Manager and Outreach Manager.
• Ensure that there is adequate staff coverage.
• Provide on-call support as needed.

Non-Essential Functions

Required Qualifications

The successful candidate is someone who has accepted their substance use history, has learned to live with and manage the daily challenges of recovery, and has attained a level of personal growth and healing that gives them the understanding, insight and motivation to help others.

Preferred Qualifications

Position and Benefits

Position Type : Full-time (40 hours) Exempt Position. On site.

Rate : $73,000 Annually

Victory Programs values a diverse workforce, as we collectively seek to create welcoming, inclusive and accessible environments for our employees and the people we serve. We strive to sustain healthy, functioning communities that respect and celebrate different experiences, identities, cultures and ideas.

Victory Programs has helped individuals and families in crisis for over 45 years. Our team of more than 300 staff across over 30+ programs works with people to develop and execute creative, safe solutions to the very real challenges our clients face.

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