Program Coordinator, Celebration Company West
Disability Services
Job Purpose
The Celebration Company West Program Coordinator position is to oversee day-to-day operations at Celebration Company West. Celebration Company West is a 5 day per week supportive employment program for adults with disabilities. Clients’ disabilities include physical disabilities, mental illness, developmental and functional disabilities. This includes providing vocational support, supervision, and aid to clients, supervising a team of three or more employees and administrative duties.
Duties and responsibilities
- Serve as site supervisor when Manager or Executive Leadership is not present.
- Overseeing Celebration Company West as a program to ensure program vision, goals and objectives are being met.
- Ability to collaborate with Manager of Disability Services on devising and meeting program budget goals.
- Evaluating and assessing programs' strengths and areas in need of improvement.
- Act as liaison between Alexander JFS and West Houston JCC professional staff.
- Oversee Admissions and Intake for Celebration Company West for continuity and clarity of systems and communication
- Provide a minimum of 3 annual continuing education training courses focused on best practices when working with adults with disabilities in the vocational setting
- Collaborate and coordinate with Celebration Company Central Coordinator around joint programming and projects.
- Monitoring projects and staff overseeing projects to ensure goals are met.
- Oversee the Celebration Company West staff as a team.
- Provide oversight to a diverse staff of three to five employees.
- Coordinate the daily workflow and scheduling of team members.
- Evaluating performance and providing feedback to team members.
- Work with CC Retail Manager and Coordinator of the Center for Art and Photography on developing products employees can create and sell.
- Assist in maintaining the gift shop and sales in person and online.
- Ability to assess client’s strengths and abilities to ensure proper placement within Celebration Company West.
- Ensure the safety and wellbeing of participants.
- Maintain a caseload of clients and create/implement treatment plans for each client.
- Ability to keep detailed daily progress notes on clients.
- Provide leadership support and supervision for social work clinical interns.
- Develop task analysis for new skills being taught.
- Ability to communicate effectively with parents and/or caregivers as needed.
- Oversee and manage the outcomes data for various disability programs used for grants.
- Administrative duties as assigned.
- Additional responsibilities as warranted by management.
- Represent Alexander JFS and work with the management team to develop and implement initiatives that increase company visibility within the surrounding community.
- Nurturing new and old relationships with collaborative partners.
- Other duties as assigned by Management.
Qualifications
- At least two years' experience working with clients with disabilities.
- Strong leadership skills
- Minimum two years' supervising experience
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and prior experience working with an electronic health record.
- Ability to preserve confidential information.
- Demonstrate ability to foster a workable, effective, and productive relationship with other clients, staff, administration, volunteers and organizations.
- Ability to work effectively as a team member and assist other staff members willingly.
- Demonstrate excellent customer service skills.
- Strong multi-tasking skills.
Working conditions
This job requires some evening and/or Sunday work hours as needed. You will be providing direct service to individuals with disabilities who may need assistance with food preparation, bath rooming, and simply hygiene. You will be expected towork off site in community settings such as grocery stores and fitness centers. Required attendance at these annual events:
- ReelArtOpening and Closing
- CC West Winter Market
- Honey Cake Sales
- JFS Annual Meeting
Direct reports
Celebration Company West staff members
Physical requirements
Must be able to help load wheelchairs on and off handicap accessible vehicles, lift items up to 25 lbs, and help someone transfer to and from a wheelchair.
To apply, please send resume to:
JAMIE PAUL WEINER, LCSW (she/her/hers)
Director of Operations and Disability Services/Houston Alexander Institute for Inclusion
jweiner@alexanderjfs.org
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