Location and Job Title:

Center for Adults Living Well @ the Y Program Coordinator
YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood
54 Nagle Ave
New York, NY 10040

Principal Responsibilities:

The Center for Adults Living Well @ The Y is an "Older Adult Center" (OAC) funded by the New York City Department for the Aging (NYC DFTA). The Center for Adults Living Well @ the Y (CALW) is Northern Manhattan's place for adults 60 and better to enjoy social engagement, meals, and dining, while accessing benefits and entitlements assistance.

CALW offers a wide range of cultural, arts, education, technology, recreation, and health and wellness classes and events that cater to a diverse population. The Program Coordinator is a position that reflects the growth and expansion of the Y's programs. The successful candidate will be tasked with leading existing programs, creating new ones, and ensuring alignment between programs and the Y's universal Jewish values. This position will prioritize development, coordination and implementation of a wide variety of daily Older Adult Center programs and activities, ensuring Y and DFTA rules are followed, informing participants of safety guidelines and managing incidents of conflict or medical emergencies.

• Develop, coordinate and implement a wide variety of daily Older Adult Center in person and virtual programs and activities
• Create a monthly calendar of diverse recreational, social, cultural, educational, multi- intergenerational and other program activities including trips and outings
• Create a weekly digital newsletter, ensuring that the information is accurate and complete before sending it to members
• Engage members in programs and educate them about upcoming Center activities and document attendance
• Supervise full time Recreation Therapist and consultants, evaluate their performance ensuring staff certifications are up to date
• Coordinate special events including registration, attendance and collection of donations
• Monitor activity budget and expenditures to ensure budget compliance
• Ensure member's satisfaction and adhere to Center Grievance Procedures
• Participate in regular supervisory conferences, agency staff development activities, and outside conferences

POSITION TYPE / EXPECTED CORE HOURS OF WORK

• Full- time position
• Estimated hours: Sunday - Thursday: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm; 7-hour day (1/2 hour unpaid break) 5 days a week

Compensation

• $45,000 to $50,000 per year

Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and competitive benefits package:

• Health Insurance; Retirement Plan; Optional 403b Plan; Life Insurance; Flexible Spending Account; Commuter Benefit Plan

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other functions and responsibilities may change or may be assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• Passion and experience in working with diverse older adults
• A team player who brings enthusiasm and a positive attitude, outgoing and friendly
• Working knowledge of organizing and implementing innovative programs and activities for older adults
• Ability to initiate innovative programs and to supervise and motivate paid and volunteer staff
• Ability to multitask in a fast pace, engaging environment
• Ability to make public presentations to community groups for continual exposure, education, and recruitment of volunteers and programs for the Older Adult Center
• Ability to communicate both orally and in writing
• Ability to work effectively with participants and volunteers; to market programs and ideas to increase member participation
• Computer proficient in Microsoft Office, Zoom, Google Docs. Internet Functions and Social Media
• C.P.R. and First Aide Certification or willingness to certify
• Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at time of hire

Organization and planning skills

• Strong Organizational Skills and Attention to Detail
• Demonstrated capability to conduct one's self in a calm and professional demeanor when dealing with the public and/or with difficult situations
• Demonstrated capability to effectively communicate orally and in writing
• Ability to work well with a diverse group of staff and volunteers
• Working with our Program Directors to create and bring to life a vision for an intentional integration of arts, culture and physical health exercise to our existing older adult programs. This involves both planning with the program directors, overseeing the safety and quality of our programs

• Tracking participant engagement and identifying trends within and across programs

• Assess the needs and desires of our community members, identify long-term and short-term program goals and outputs, execute well-planned programs and activities, and implement ongoing improvements in wellness and enrichment programs/activities
• Ensuring alignment of program goals with Y values and communication of key messages
• Develop evaluation processes to ensure programs remain relevant, innovative, integrated, and evolving from year to year
• Ensure compliance of all programs with government standards and programmatic requirements

Salary:

$45,000 - $55,000

Agency Information:

Established in 1917 as one of the first Jewish community centers in New York City, the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood (the Y) is a thriving and visionary not-for-profit human services organization in Northern Manhattan. We welcome people of diverse ethnicities and all ages, from pre-school to older adults, into the Y family with a wide range of educational, recreational and social services and programs that focus on improving the quality of their lives. With a long and distinguished history, the Y is a multi-service community center that is well known for its nurturing environment and non-judgmental philosophy.