Recreational Coordinator Park Slope Womens Shelter

Who We Are:CAMBA is a community of staff volunteers clients donors neighbors and partners who work together to build an inclusive New York City where all children and adults have access to the resources and supports they need to thrive. We take a comprehensive approach by offering more than 180 integrated programs in: Education & Youth Development Family Support Job Training & Employment Support Services Health Housing and Legal Services. We reach more than 73000 individuals and families including almost 13000 youth.CAMBA serves a diverse cross section of New Yorkers from new mothers in Brownsville to job seekers in the Rockaways. More than half of our clients are immigrants and refugees from around the globe. Over 85 of our families are in living in poverty reflecting the challenges faced by nearly 1.7 million New Yorkers today.
CAMBA operates 6 single adult shelters and 6 family shelters and one drop in center. Each shelter offers clients a supportive structured therapeutic safe and drugfree facility. Homeless (often mentallyill and substanceabusing) men and women are provided with comprehensive services to stabilize their condition in order to successfully transition into to permanent and/or supported housing.
Park Slope Shelter for Women serves 100 MICA (mentally ill chemical abusing) women at the Park Slope Armory in Brooklyn.

Position: Recreational Coordinator
Reports To: Director of Social Services
Location: 1402 Eighth Avenue Brooklyn NY 11215

What The (Insert Position Title Here) Does:

• Organize and lead therapeutic/recreational activities to enhance the social development of individual group members.
• Plan and organize social/peer support/ADL events or groups to promote wellness and recovery including developing skills to improve mental health physical health resistance to alcohol and other drug use and selfadvocacy.
• Facilitate and/or teach physical education arts music or drama.
• Plan and organize activities to maximize program contracts goals and performance targets.
• Plan and organize activities within the facility and the community including volunteers to maximize the program contracts goals and performance targets.
• Plan coordinate and facilitate social/peer support events including group facilitation for clients.
• Design and produce aesthetic visuals for public spaces of the shelter which reflect cultural seasonal and programmatic themes.
• Maintain and post a weekly and/or monthly calendar of all client programmatic activities occurring internally and externally.
• Input client data using the DHS CARES database as needed.
• Escort clients as needed.
• Communicate effectively with clients direct reporting staff peers supervisors and funders.
• Encourage teamwork among direct reporting staff as well as among peers.
• Troubleshoot client and direct reporting staff problems and make decisions in accordance with program policies procedures and protocols.
• Work with direct reporting staff to improve work performance through client feedback training weekly documentation of oneonone supervision of staff.
• Motivate coach and counsel direct reporting staff to excel.
• Overcome resistance to change from clients direct reporting staff and supervisors/funders.
• Administer constructive discipline to direct reporting staff as needed.
• Manage own time effectively and coordinate program activities to maximize time of direct reporting staff.
• Monitor clients progress toward their goals and document via progress notes.
• Lead and participate in administrative and staff meetings as requested.
• Provide all required information for weekly/monthly/quarterly/semester/annual reports to CAMBA management and/or to funders.
• Review and sign timesheets.
• Prepare performance appraisals for direct reporting staff.
• May prepare marketing materials for the program.
• May reach out and market the program to the community in order to develop additional resources for the program.
• May conduct initial intake or assessment of clients.
• May have direct client service/program responsibilities in addition to the above.

• Bachelors degree (e. g. B.A. B.S.W. and two years of applicable experience and/or equivalent experience. Licensed Masters degree in Art Therapy preferred. (A license is required of these Masters Degrees: Social Work (LMSW or LCSW) Mental Health Counseling Counseling/Guidance Art Therapy).

• May be required to become First Aid/CPR certified.
• May be required to become certified in prevention.
• Bilingual preferred.

Compensation: $50000$55000 annually
When salary ranges are listed the range would represent the low and high end for the applicable position & program. The salary offered would be based on various factors unique to each program and candidate.This includes but is not limited to experience education budget and/or program size internal equity skills and other factors that may be required for the position and organization.

Status: Fulltime 35 hours per week)
Benefits: CAMBA offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance dental insurance 403(b) retirement plan with employer match paid time off (vacation personal and sick time) and paid holidays.


CAMBA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace. People of color people with disabilities and lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people are encouraged to apply. We consider all applicants without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity gender expression national origin age disability socioeconomic status marital or veteran status pregnancy status or sexual orientation.