Associate Director of Wellness and Community Support

Associate Director of Wellness and Community Support Bard Prison Initiative

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The Associate Director, Wellness and Community Support is responsible for fostering a culture prioritizing BPI students' and alumni's health and well‑being. In this role, the Associate Director will conduct outreach and education, provide support and wellness advising to students, collaborate with the NYC Programs, Reentry, and Microcollege teams to address student and alumni needs, and ensure students have access to appropriate resources both internally and externally.

This role will supervise a housing coordinator and housing specialist.

Please note that reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Collaborate with and support the Director of NYC Programs with planning, managing, and executing alumni wellness support, including educational classes on healthy living, relationships, and childhood experiences.
• Ensure all wellness programming and supports are inclusive and welcoming.
• Manage all alumni and student wellness concerns through advising and professional referrals, when needed, and provide ongoing support, follow‑up suggestions, resources, and foster student self‑advocacy to help students better manage and thrive in their academic, personal, and fiscal responsibilities.
• Create and update student wellness notes.
• Leverage the NYC communities of reentry, social service, mental health and substance abuse support and housing providers to create comprehensive wrap‑around support inclusive of and beyond the scope of BPI’s alumni services.
• Meet individually with alumni and students, as needed, to provide support and referrals to resources and services.
• Facilitate and lead workshops for alumni on health and wellness, including workshops for individuals recently released from prison.
• Perform other job‑related duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

• This position oversees the management and supervision of the Housing Coordinator.
• Ensure that all direct reporting staff have all the necessary skills to do their assigned and defined functions at the highest level of professionalism and competence at all times.
• Maintain high performance by continually providing proactive, constructive, and positive feedback and support to direct reports during the process of ongoing goal achievement.
• Effectively address identified non‑performance immediately upon noticing it or within 24 hours.
• Continually monitor, measure, and reinforce behaviors that create a work environment that makes it easy for people to effectively manage and motivate themselves on an ongoing basis.
• Conduct quarterly performance check‑ins culminating in annual performance reviews according to organizational policies and procedures.
• Participate and contribute to salary administration, conduct interviews, and make recommendations for new hires and consultants.

• Measure data and collect data on wellness programs and projects and identify ways to further strengthen alumni wellness.
• Attend and lead all relevant meetings as they pertain to the overall organizational purpose of the function on an as‑needed basis.
• Generate and submit all relevant reports to appropriate parties as needed.
• Develop, implement, manage, monitor, and maintain all necessary and relevant functional area policies and procedures on an as‑needed and ongoing basis.
• Ensure ongoing effective interdepartmental communications at all times.
• Stay within all organizational and departmental policies and procedures at all times.
• Liaise with Bard College staff when relevant.

• Occasional travel is expected within NYC.
• Occasional travel is expected outside of NYS with prior notification.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.…