Organization Overview
Young People in Recovery - Chapter Lead
MUST BE LOCATED IN Durango, CO
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.
Mission & Vision
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 Responsibilities
- 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 partners.