Job Description

Salary Range: $47,500 - $52,250 per year

Schedule: Monday  Sunday, 8-hour shift, between 6:30am-3:00pm.

Job Summary:
The Recovery Support Center staffing includes a Manager and three Coordinators, all of whom are people in recovery. The three Coordinators each have core duties to the Center and the members, but also each have a special focus as summarized below. The Coordinators work together, as well as with the Manager, peer leaders, and members, to ensure that the Recovery Support Center is a safe, welcoming, supportive, and consistent community for people who are sober and in recovery. Coordinators must be committed to championing recovery, providing and encouraging peer-to-peer support and helping to shape and organize the overall Peer Participatory Process that is the heart of the RSC model. Coordinators are expected to act as positive role models and peer mentors, providing guidance, support, and access to key resources that help members on their recovery journey, no matter what pathway of recovery they choose.

The Community Outreach Coordinator is a vital member of the Recovery Support Center. This position is part of a team of employees, who work together to ensure that the Recovery Support Center is a safe, welcoming, supportive and consistent community for people who are sober and in recovery. The Community Outreach Coordinator provides guidance, knowledge, support and access to resources within SFH and/or within the local Boston area while respecting and supporting the pathway of recovery the member may choose. The Community Outreach Coordinator champions recovery provides and encourages peer-to-peer support to help, shape and organize the overall Peer Participatory Process that is the heart of the RSC model.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
-Stays up to date about resources for members at St. Francis House.
-Acts as a key connector to SFH services that can benefit members.
-Explores the local Boston area for ideas of people and organizations that could make positive contributions to the Center and its members.
-Conducts outreach to educate and inform the Boston community about the Center services and find ways to promote Multiple Pathways of Recovery.
-Provides coaching/mentoring to members.
-Upholds Centers Code of Ethics, Boundaries with and between members and illustrate trauma-informed, recovery-oriented values.
-Reinforces positive messages of recovery through actions, including language that represents a stigma-free community.
-Participates and assists fellow coordinators in providing support for peer led activities and events as well as collaborating with other SFH staff to engage and support members to other SFH programs
-Welcomes people to the center, provides center orientations, membership enrollments, and scan membership cards.
-Intervenes respectfully to ensure members are abiding by the shared expectations, practices and values of the Center.
-Enters basic information into database that keeps all required documentation current to track member participation.

Requirements
-High School diploma or equivalent.
-Minimum of one year of experience working directly with people experiencing homelessness and or substance abuse/recovery.
-Lived experience with substance recovery required with a minimum of three years sobriety and active engagement in recovery practices.
-Lived experience with homelessness preferred.
-Experience, commitment and compassion with persons experiencing homelessness and/or may have additional challenges related to mental and/or physical health and/or various types of disabilities.
-Training and completion in the Recovery Coach Academy and training in motivational interviewing a plus.
-Experience using Microsoft Word (Word, Outlook, Excel, etc.) software, and extensive knowledge of HMIS database software.
-Bilingual Spanish a preferred.