Chapter Lead

Young People in Recovery -

Chapter Lead

MUST BE LOCATED IN Winchester KY

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:

YPRs mission is to provide the life skills and peer supports 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.

Essential Responsibilities:

Note: This position is Part Time; 15 hours per week

General Responsibilities:

• 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.

• Celebrating large and small victories while also evaluating for bottlenecks and barriers the chapter is experiencing.

• Comply with all YPR reporting procedures notably ADP time-tracking Concur expense reporting Salesforce/Community and census reports.

• Communicate regularly with the supervisor to ensure data collection is executed with fidelity EPIC site implementation is running smoothly and troubleshoot any problems or challenges.

• Syncing team members across all chapter projects including social media marketing community outreach communications finance reporting and advocacy.

Chapter Lead:

• Complete YPRs online interactive orientation and study YPR Leadership Handbook.

• Employee will be responsible for community outreach tracking and reporting of outreach.

• Chapter Leads are responsible to bring all Chapter members together foster an environment where they can learn from each other and feel they are improving as a skill/domain-focused group.

• Oversee all contractual Chapter events and operations including all-recovery meetings prosocial events chapter workshops and advocacy events.

• Communicate weekly with the National Chapter Coordinator.

• Engage in grassroots community outreach via emails phone calls and face-to-face meetings.

• Register Chapter leaders members and supporters through the appropriate platforms (YPR Community/YPR website)

• Secure free or inexpensive venue space for Chapter meetings and events at community centers libraries etc.

• Collaborate with other YPR Chapter Leads for statewide joint events and advocacy efforts.

• Support and encourage the many pathways of recovery.

• 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 calendar year.

• Employee will attend and participate in one monthly All Chapter Call.

• Employee will attend or view the recording of one All Team/All Staff Meeting each quarter.

• Employee will meet with the 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 national fundraising campaigns and initiatives with the support of the marketing team as needed.

• Employee will host (at minimum) public All Recovery Meetings YPR-approved Workshops and ProSocial Events in accordance with the set grant deliverables.

Organizational Commitments

• Work collaboratively to support and implement YPRs strategic plan and tosupport and encourage the many pathways of recovery.

• 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:Winchester KY

Official Title: Chapter Lead

Job Type: Part Time; 15 hours per week

Compensation:$18 per hour

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)

• Technology/computer/virtual meeting experience required

• Google Suite experience preferred

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:

Facebook: Check Statement:Young People in Recovery is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our clients employees volunteers and members. To assist in achieving that goal we conduct background investigations.If your position requires additional pre-employment criteria such as a drivers examination a background investigation and/ or a pre-employment drug test and if you have been offered employment before any such investigation or test is completed your employment is contingent upon a satisfactory result on all required tests.

ADA Statement:Young People in Recovery will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the employment application process. To request an accommodation pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act please contact the Human Resources Coordinator at.

People in recovery YPR chapter members/leaders and those with lived experience of the criminal justice system are encouraged to apply.

Diverse candidates are 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 veterans 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.