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.