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SalaryYoung People in Recovery -
Chapter Lead & Program Coordinator
MUST BE LOCATED in Inland Empire, CA
Organization Overview:
YPR is a national, peer-led organization that serves youth and young adults in recovery from substance use disorder. YPR aims to improve access to resources such as housing, education and employment that sustain long-term recovery.
Vision: Young People in Recovery envisions a world where all young people have the resources they need to thrive in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Mission:
YPR’s mission is to provide the life skills and peer support to help people recover from substance use disorder and reach their full potential.
Chapter Vision and Overview:
Young People in Recovery Chapters support people in or seeking recovery by providing community-based recovery support services. Chapters also advocate on the local and state levels for more access to these services and other effective recovery resources. This peer-based network relies on quarterly workshops, monthly pro-social events, and regular all-recovery meetings.
YPR actively seeks to expand Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within our organization and through our work. We encourage candidates with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to apply.
Note: This position is part-time, at 20 hours per week
Title: Chapter Lead & Program Coordinator
Key responsibilities:
Chapter Lead:
- All communications from any YPR Employee must be responded to within 24 business hours unless extenuating circumstances regarding schedules are agreed upon in advance between you and your supervisor. This includes text, phone, email, slack, etc.
- Complete YPR’s online orientation and study YPR Leadership Handbook
- Oversee all contractual Chapter events and operations including all-recovery meetings, prosocial events, chapter workshops, and advocacy events
- Communicate weekly with National Chapter Coordinator
- Recruit Chapter Members and develop local Chapter Leadership Team
- Communicate weekly with Chapter Leadership Team
- Engage in grassroots community outreach via emails, phone calls and face-to-face meetings
- Utilize the YPR Connect portal to submit past event reports and funding requests
- Register Chapter leaders, members and supporters through the appropriate platforms (YPR Connect/YPR website)
- Secure free or inexpensive venue space for Chapter meetings and events
- Collaborate with other YPR Chapter Leads for statewide joint events and advocacy efforts
- Support and encourage the many pathways of recovery
- Comply with all YPR reporting procedures, most notably ADP time-tracking and expense reporting
- Employee will utilize RCI and the appropriate chapter-specific keywords at all chapter events and to engage and communicate with participants
- Employee will host, at minimum, one virtual National All Recovery Meeting each year
- Employee will attend and participate in one monthly All Chapter Call
- Employee will establish a Chapter Leadership Team within 6 months
- Employee will attend or view the recording of one All Team/All Staff Meeting each quarter
- Employee will meet with National Chapter Coordinator after 12 months to discuss and review establishing a Chapter Advisory Board
- Employee will utilize social media to promote the chapter and its events
- Employee will assist with promoting YPR National social media/fundraising campaigns
- Employee will host (at minimum) public All Recovery Meetings, YPR-approved Workshops, and ProSocial Events in accordance with the set grant deliverables
- Employee will conduct and track outreach within the community
- Marginal/incidental functions and other related tasks, as assigned.
- Work collaboratively to support and implement YPR’s strategic plan.
- Enthusiastically promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives.
- Work to continuously improve personal performance and organizational excellence.
- Utilize data to improve outcomes and inform organizational development.
EPIC Coordinator:
- All communications from any YPR Employee must be responded to within 24 business hours unless extenuating circumstances regarding schedules are agreed upon in advance between you and your supervisor. This includes text, phone, email, slack, etc.
- Attend training session with supervisor to become proficient with the EPIC program, develop communication and small group leadership skills, and establish best practices for peer support
- Facilitate 10 EPIC modules on a weekly (or otherwise regular) basis. Responsible for set-up and for welcoming participants to each session
- Prepare for each EPIC module by reviewing slides, reviewing engagement activities, and reviewing facilitator guide prior to implementation
- Complete all necessary PHI certifications
- Collect all EPIC data utilizing YPR’s designated platform. This will include consent forms, intake interviews, exit interviews and follow-up interviews.
- Communicate regularly with supervisor to ensure data collection is executed with fidelity, EPIC site implementation is running smoothly, and to troubleshoot any problems or challenges
- Maintain positive and productive relationships with EPIC partner site by communicating with partner site point of contact on a regular basis
- Comply with all YPR reporting procedures, most notably ADP time-tracking and expense reporting
- Act as primary liaison between My Recovery is EPIC program, and local YPR chapter community; Invite and encourage program participants to engage in chapter activities
- Coordinate printing of EPIC materials and distribution of survey incentives with supervisor
- Marginal/incidental functions and other related tasks, as assigned.
- Work collaboratively to support and implement YPR’s strategic plan.
- Enthusiastically promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives.
- Work to continuously improve personal performance and organizational excellence.
- Utilize data to improve outcomes and inform organizational development.
Marginal/incidental functions and other related tasks, as assigned.
Location: Inland Empire, CA
Official Title: Chapter Lead & Program Coordinator
Job Type: Part Time
Compensation: $22 per hour, 20 hours per week
Cultural Principles:
Community:
- YPR Values community by creating welcoming spaces for people in or seeking recovery and their allies
Caring:
- YPR values caring by meeting all people where they are in their recovery journeys, and by supporting all pathways of recovery.
Respect:
- YPR values respect by listening to others to understand and by operating with a spirit of intellectual curiosity.
Inclusion:
- YPR values inclusion by building diverse teams of employees and by leveraging data to better support underserved populations.
Commitment:
- YPR values commitment by showing up every day and holding ourselves accountable to our processes for each other, our clients, our stakeholders, and our communities.
Experience and Background:
- Understanding of substance use prevention and recovery
- Positive and supportive attitude toward all pathways of recovery
- Sensitivity and awareness of the unique needs and stigmas associated with underserved populations
- Excellent organizational, communication, and leadership skills
Preferred qualifications:
- Personal experience in recovery
- Experience working successfully with young adults
- Experience working successfully with people with substance use disorders
- Experience working successfully with diverse communities
- Previous training and certification in trauma-informed response, cultural competency, and peer education
- Bilingual (Spanish/English)
Physical demands and work environment:
- Occasionally required to stand
- Occasionally required to walk
- Occasionally required to sit
- Frequently required to utilize hand and finger dexterity
- Continually required to talk or hear
- The employee must occasionally lift and /or move more than 10 pounds
Learn more about YPR
YPR website: https://youngpeopleinrecovery.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/youngpeopleinrecovery
Instagram:@yngpplrecovery
People in recovery, and YPR chapter members/leaders encouraged to apply.
Diverse candidates encouraged to apply.
YPR is an equal-opportunity employer. We will not discriminate, and we will take affirmative
action to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for
employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of
employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, nation or
origin, age, religion, creed, disability, recovery status, veteran’s status, sexual orientation,
gender identity or gender expression.
YPR is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and embeds those principles into the practices of its work, and organizational culture. YPR is determined to be an employer of choice and believes that the best organizational performance will come from a safe, diverse, and inclusive work environment. People of color, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
People with lived recovery experience, and YPR chapter members/leaders are also strongly encouraged to apply.
