For nearly 150 years, The Jewish Board has been delivering innovative, best-in-class mental and behavioral health services. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families, to children, teens, and adults. That adds up to countless opportunities to use your skills, training, and compassion to make a difference in the lives of over 45,000 New Yorkers each year.
LOCATION 463 7th AveNew York, NY 10018, US
Make a bigger difference
Senior Project Director - Jewish Teens Mental Health
At The Jewish Board, we don't just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that's been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.
How you can make a bigger difference:
HereNow, a program within JCS, is a teen mental health initiative that provides resources and programming to Jewish teens (13-18), parents, and youth-facing professionals in the NY-Metro area. Through web-based and social media platforms, HereNow empowers teens to use their own voices to talk about mental health issues and share resources. In-person programming is informed by a network of Jewish youth organizations, with a focus on anti-stigma, prevention and fostering resilience.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The program manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the HereNow program. This includes building and maintaining community partnerships, engaging teens to participate in and contribute to the creation of web-based content and running programs that are responsive to emergent mental health needs and trends of Jewish teens.
KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Ongoing identification of information and resources about mental health for teens, parents and youth professionals.Developing and maintaining a network of Jewish youth-facing organization and community partners.Recruiting teens to write articles for HereNow; will edit and oversee all submissions.Management of the Social Media Teen Leadership committee, including ongoing communications and meetings to drive content creation.In partnership with Jewish Board's marketing department, coordination with 70 Faces Media for the preparation of online materials.Maintaining all HereNow social media accounts.Running programming and conducting training around teen mental health to professionals, parents and teens.Providing consultation and referrals to teens and parents around community-based and mental health resources.Representing HereNow within The Jewish Board, at the UJA-Federation, and in Youth Mental Health Roundtables.Perform other duties as assigned.CORE COMPETENCIES:
Must demonstrate initiative, creativity, and flexibility.Strong inter-personal, organizational, leadership and communication skills.Strong capacity to work with Jewish adolescents, their parents and other Jewish youth service professionals.Familiarity with the needs of the NYC Jewish Community.Ability to work flexible hours; some early evening and weekend hours required.EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIRED:
BA plus five years of post-college relevant experience required.Experience working in Jewish camps or youth movements a plus.Master's Degree in human service or public health-related field, Social work or Mental Health Counseling degree a plus.EXPERIENCE REQUIRED/LANGUAGE PREFERENCE:
Strong cultural competence regarding Jewish religious, spiritual, cultural and communal practice.Hebrew language a plus.COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED:
Experience with excel, data collection, and navigating social media.WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL EFFORT:
This role is hybrid; it will include community-based work that requires travel to different locations.To perform the essential functions of this job the candidate must be able to travel within the five boroughs carrying equipment such as a notebook, forms, laptop, mobile hotspot and cell phone weighing up to approximately 10 pounds.To perform the essential functions of this job, the incumbent is routinely required to sit (70% of the time) and stand (30% of the time).The work environment generally does not involve physical risk or hazardous conditions.Who we are:
We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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