Recovery Learning Center Program Director

Role Overview

• Oversee day-to-day operation of RLC setting(s) including scheduling and programming, planning new initiatives and conducting peer support and educational groups.
• Help prepare participants to engage in a recovery process and to communicate their strengths, hopes, dreams and goals, effectively.
• Help participants access resources in their local community to support/enhance their recovery, including educational, employment, housing, and social supports.
• Create a welcoming and helpful RLC environment in which participants, family, friends, and others important in the lives of participants are welcome, respected, and valued.
• Direct and manage the activities and job performance of RLC staff and volunteers. Hire staff appropriate to position responsibilities. Optimize program staff and volunteers’ efforts to achieve operational excellence.
• Use and train staff and volunteers to use strengths-based, recovery-oriented, motivational enhancement, harm-reduction, trauma-informed, culturally competent rehabilitation approaches to help participants think through their current life circumstances compared with their hopes and plans for the future.
• Provide support and mentoring to staff and volunteers to promote team cohesiveness.
• Manage staff performance. Provide direction, training, and coaching for all programs and, if applicable, volunteers. Implement supervision, recognition and rewards programs and conduct performance review sessions and corrective action as needed for all program staff. Provide guidance on career development to all program staff. Provide consistent and direct performance feedback to volunteers if applicable. Arrange needed staff training. Maintain staff schedule. Manage staff time off to maintain operational excellence.

Requirements

• Lived experience of a psychiatric condition required
• A minimum of two years’ experience in progressively responsible human services positions required
• One or more years of supervisory experience preferred
• A high school diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) credential required within 16 months of hire
• Bi
• lingual/bi-cultural applicants are encouraged to apply

Benefits

• Professional Development
• Hiring Events
• External Referral Program