Community Reentry & Wellness Lead

The Phoenix; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 73,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

403(b) retirement plan

Paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision plans

ERGs and mentoring program

Job summary

The Phoenix in Boston, MA is seeking a coordinator to implement New England grants across Suffolk, Essex, and Middlesex counties. You will translate grant requirements into practical plans, recruit and train volunteers, and collaborate with sheriff’s offices, treatment providers, and community partners.

You’ll manage programming in correctional, reentry, and community settings, coordinate scheduling, security clearances, and track progress to ensure timely grant deliverables while fostering

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant work or volunteer experience.
• Background in volunteer or staff management.
• Willingness to travel across Suffolk, Essex, and Middlesex Counties.
• Availability to work one flexible day per week at 54 Newmarket Square.
• Flexible schedule including occasional early mornings, evenings, and weekends.
• Ability to travel nationally for team retreats approximately once a year.

Responsibilities

• Translate grant scopes, timelines, and approved budgets into practical implementation workplans for Middlesex, Essex, and Suffolk Counties.
• Coordinate implementation across correctional, reentry, community, and digital settings.
• Track grant milestones, outputs, risks, barriers, and required follow-up.
• Coordinate contractors, volunteers, facilities, and internal Phoenix teams responsible for program delivery.
• Support programming at the Middlesex Jail and House of Correction, Essex County Pre-Release and Reentry Center, and other locations.
• Coordinate security-clearance submissions, facility orientations, program schedules, and substitute coverage.
• Develop, approve, launch, and monitor virtual recovery, wellness, life-skills, and reentry courses.
• Build and maintain relationships with sheriff’s departments, probation and parole offices, recovery courts, and reentry organizations.
• Strengthen referral pathways connecting individuals with Phoenix programming and community resources after release.
• Coordinate Suffolk County engagement through Newmarket community center and partner locations.
• Recruit, onboard, train, support, and retain Phoenix Community Guides and volunteers, with lived experience in recovery and CLS.
• Coordinate quarterly Phoenix Guide trainings and monthly CLS-focused events.
• Plan Bridge Events and welcoming activities for returning community members.
• Support quarterly resource fairs and recovery celebrations as per grants.
• Support onboarding to NewForm and connect participants to programs.
• Maintain accurate program, attendance, participant, referral, volunteer, contractor, and facility records.
• Track grant-relevant measures and coordinate documentation for monthly/quarterly/annual reporting.
• Ensure data quality, privacy, grant compliance, and appropriate staff time Allocation.

Skills

Grant coordination

Volunteer management

Stakeholder engagement

Project coordination

Tools

NewForm system

Job description

The Phoenix in Boston, MA is seeking a coordinator to implement New England grants across Suffolk, Essex, and Middlesex counties. You will translate grant requirements into practical plans, recruit and train volunteers, and collaborate with sheriff’s offices, treatment providers, and community partners.

You’ll manage programming in correctional, reentry, and community settings, coordinate scheduling, security clearances, and track progress to ensure timely grant deliverables while fostering