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Project Renewal is a leading non-profit organization with the mission of building supportive communities where people achieve dignity and independence, renewing their lives with health, homes, and jobs. Our comprehensive and integrated 24/7 programs are designed to offer the holistic care our clients need. With a staff of 950+ and an annual budget of $140 million, Project Renewal is one of the larger social service nonprofits in New York City.

Title: Program Director

Program:     St. Nicholas House

Salary Range: $90,000 - $100,000

Program Description:

St. Nicholas is a congregate care supportive housing program located in Upper Manhattan. St. Nicholas provides permanent, affordable, supportive housing to 94 single adults of whom 61 are formerly homeless men and women referred through DHS. St. Nicholas is funded by DOHMH and DHS. Of those 61 clients, 40 are diagnosed with a chronic mental health issue and 21 are in recovery from substance use issues. The remaining 33 units are “fair market” and reserved for low-income tenants, referred from the local community.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The essential duties of the Program Director include but are not limited to the following activities:

• Manage the day-to-day operations and activities with respect to tenants’ services, the physical plant, building safety and security
• Provides direct and indirect supervision to all staff as well as managements of all human resources issues such as hiring, disciplining, training, and developing staff as needed
• In conjunction with Property management, oversees the business office including rentals and rent collection
• Collaborates with the Clinical Coordinator to ensure the appropriate level and quality of services are being offered to the tenants
• Meets regularly with all tenants to counsel/instruct them on building issues, especially safety matters
• Meets with individual tenants, as needed, to resolve issues and or conflicts with building staff or services
• Managements of all aspects of the budget and ensures that the building follows city and state regulations and reporting requirements
• Ensures timely completion of statistical and reporting requirements
• Builds and maintains strong connections with both local and state service providers
• Handles community relations activities which include maintaining a positive relationship with neighboring community organizations and overseeing the creation of partnerships with community-based service providers
• Facilitate weekly team meetings with the interdisciplinary team
• Available to respond to emergencies on a 24/7/365 basis, on-call
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Vice President of Programs

Physical Activities:

While performing the duties of this position, the Program Director must stand to talk to clients and staff, sit for extended periods of time at the computer, and reach or squat to get records from the files. 

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree Social Work or related human services field is strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
• 4 years’ experience working with homeless, mentally ill and chemically addicted individuals and/or other special needs populations, 2 years of which must be supervisory in nature

Project Renewal is an equal opportunity employer.  Its long-standing policy has been to embrace the equality of opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to actual or perceived race, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, religion or creed, gender (see separately issued Gender Discrimination policy for more detail), physical or mental disability, age (18 and over), military status, arrest record, marital status, domestic partnership status, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, status as a victim or witness of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking, unemployment status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.