**Young People in Recovery -**
**Chapter Lead**
**MUST BE LOCATED IN Durango, CO**
**Organization Overview**:
YPR is a national, peer-led organization that serves youth and young adults in recovery from substance use disorder. YPR aims to improve access to resources such as housing, education and employment that sustain long-term recovery.
**Vision**:Young People in Recovery envisions a world where all young people have the resources they need to thrive in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol.
**Mission**:
YPR's mission is to provide the life skills and peer support to help people recover from substance use disorder and reach their full potential.
**Chapter Vision and Overview**:
Young People in Recovery Chapters support people in or seeking recovery by providing community-based recovery support services. Chapters also advocate on the local and state levels for more access to these services and other effective recovery resources. This peer-based network relies on quarterly workshops, monthly pro-social events, and regular all-recovery meetings.
Note: This position is **Part Time;** **25 hours per week**
**General Responsibilities**:- Celebrating large and small victories while also evaluating for bottlenecks and barriers the chapter is experiencing.- Comply with all YPR reporting procedures, notably ADP time-tracking, Concur expense reporting, Salesforce/YPR Community, and census reports.- Communicate regularly with the supervisor to ensure data collection is executed with fidelity and troubleshoot any problems or challenges.- Syncing team members across all chapter projects, including social media marketing, community outreach, communications, finance reporting, and advocacy.- Obtain training and certificates as required by the organization and your direct supervisor, including but not limited to DEI and MHFA.- Employee will attend all YPR Academies or view the recording of the YPR Academy each month.
**Chapter Lead**:
- Complete YPR's online, interactive orientation and study YPR Leadership Handbook.- Employee will be responsible for community outreach tracking and reporting of outreach.- Chapter Leads are responsible to bring all Chapter members together, foster an environment where they can learn from each other, and feel they are improving as a skill/domain-focused group.- Oversee all contractual Chapter events and operations, including all-recovery meetings, prosocial events, chapter workshops, and advocacy events.- Communicate weekly with Chapter Coordinator.-
- Register Chapter leaders, members, and supporters through the appropriate platforms (YPR Community/YPR website)- Secure free or inexpensive venue space for Chapter meetings and events at community centers, libraries, etc.- Collaborate with other YPR Chapter Leads for statewide joint events and advocacy efforts.- Support and encourage the many pathways of recovery.- Employee will utilize RCI and the appropriate chapter-specific keywords at all chapter events and to engage and communicate with participants.- Employee will host, at minimum, one virtual National All Recovery Meeting each calendar year.- Employee will attend and participate in one monthly All Chapter Call.- Employee will attend or view the recording of one All Team/All Staff Meeting each quarter.- Employee will utilize social media to promote the chapter and its events, national fundraising campaigns, and initiatives with the support of the marketing team as needed.- Employee will host (at minimum) public weekly All Recovery Meetings, quarterly YPR-approved Workshops, and monthly ProSocial Events in accordance with the set grant deliverables.
**Organizational Commitments**- Work collaboratively to support and implement YPR's strategic plan and to support and encourage the many pathways of recovery.- Enthusiastically promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives.- Work to continuously improve personal performance and organizational excellence.- Utilize data to improve outcomes and inform organizational development.- Marginal/incidental functions and other related tasks, as assigned.
**Location: Durango, CO**
**Official Title: Chapter Lead**
**Job Type: Part-Time**
**Compensation: $20 per hour; 25 hours per week**
**Cultural Principles**:
**Community**:
- YPR Values community by creating welcoming spaces for people in or seeking recovery and their allies
**Caring**:
- YPR values caring by meeting all people where they are in their recovery journeys, and by supporting all pathways of recovery.
**Respect**:
- YPR values respect by listening to others to understand and by operating with a spirit of intellectual curiosity.
**Inclusion**:
- YPR values inclusion by building diverse teams of employees and by leveraging data to better support underserved populations.
**Commitment**:
- YPR values commitment by showing up every day and holding ourselves accountable to our processes for each other, our clients, our stakeholders, and our