Program Director, RAPP

Urban Resource Institute (URI) is a dynamic, innovative, and well-respected organization founded in 1980 that transforms the lives of domestic violence survivors and homeless families through safe shelter and comprehensive services; delivers prevention and intervention programs that break cycles of violence and poverty; and actively works for sustainable systemic change. URI is the oldest licensed provider of domestic violence (DV) shelter and services in New York State, and is the largest provider in the United States of DV shelter services, as well as a leading provider of shelter and services for homeless families.

The Program Director, RAPP provides leadership to a team of approximately 14 supervises in the RAPP program and manages a budget of $1.5M within the Justice Initiatives Department. The programs include ENDGBV-funded Relationship Abuse Prevention Program (RAPP), which now includes both Early and Teen RAPP. It is a school-based program that focuses on serving middle and high school students throughout NYC to reduce experiences of violence and prevent further harm over a child’s lifetime.

The Program Director, RAPP provides mission-focused leadership that is steeped in the values of diversity, equity and inclusion, trauma informed care, and client-centered service dedicated to supporting, achieving and maintaining the agency’s commitment to excellence.

• People Leadership and Partnerships
• Provide inclusive leadership and management to direct reports/team members.
• Lead the buildout of the new RAPP hubs in 4 boroughs, creation of a new community-based model and summer program within the two years of starting this position. This is including, but not limited to, developing trauma informed and anti-oppressive curriculum for middle and high school youth and a leadership/peer leader academy.
• Lead and support a positive work culture transformation, fostering inclusivity, collaboration, and trauma-informed practices across the program.
• Honor historic roots of program while soliciting new practices and interventions in multiple fields of practice.
• Provide support in identifying spaces to host the RAPP hubs and in building partnerships with local community organizations and at least 35 middle and high schools throughout the fiscal year. Visit each Hub site on a regular basis.
• Partner with Evaluation & Social Impact (ESI) to develop content and delivery for trainings focused on clinical topics and restorative & transformative justice.
• Cultivate leadership and professional development for supervises and their respective teams including promoting career pathways and promotions within URI, mentorship and internship opportunities, and training targets incorporated into individual staffing goals and objectives.
• Represent URI’s RAPP in community gatherings, funder meetings, speaking events, press and media opportunities, and other external events.
• Ensure URI’s RAPP is consistently informed by community participation by soliciting, capturing, analyzing, and incorporating feedback by individuals with lived experience and diverse stakeholders.
• Provide clinical supervision and guidance to all members of the RAPP team through individual and group supervision.

• Develop and achieve annual program level goals in alignment with identified KPIs, logic models, as well as funder deliverables and in support of the mission and agency-wide strategic plan.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant federal, state and local regulations as well as agency and program policies, and compliance with meeting performance measures based on organizational and funder targets.
• Collaborate with the Finance team to facilitate compliance with contract guidelines, submit requests for modifications for approval in advance as needed and to increase overall contract performance.
• Partner with Finance leadership to develop and manage annual operating budgets and provide fiscal oversight including allocations and financial management best practices.

• Train and ensure that RAPP staff are entering all data into the appropriate systems accurately and in a…