Senior Team Leader
HereNow
Description
Jewish Community Services (JCS) provides an array of clinical and concrete supports to help New York City’s Jewish community to address challenging problems throughout the life cycle.
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
Compensation
Requirements
CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:
• 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
• Masters 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
VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY:
• The candidate should be able to read paper and electronic documents and perform significant data entry into various computer programs. Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to travel independently using public transportation.
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
How to Apply
Email Rivka Nissel at rnissel@jbfcs.org