Program Director, Philadelphia Chapter, Back On My Feet

Posted by on January 02, 2011

Program Director, Philadelphia Chapter

Posted on: December 18, 2010

Posted by: Back On My Feet

The Program Director’s main responsibility is to ensure a sustainable, effective, and successful program. This includes managing each residential shelter team in Philadelphia and ensuring that the Back on My Feet residential members are moving forward at various phases throughout the program. With the addition of Program staff, these responsibilities will shift; however, the Program Director is ultimately responsible for the effective execution of the program in Philadelphia.

Specific responsibilities include, but not limited to:
• Managing each of the shelter teams in Philadelphia to make sure core roles are filled and are being executed effectively
• Ultimately managing the Programming staff (as they develop –not in existence upon hire date)
o Program Coordinator
o Director of Outreach and Member Services
• Corresponding with and managing facility relationships
• Monitoring and analyzing monthly assessment information
o Retention rates of residential and non-residential members
o Compilation of the chapter’s monthly budget
• Approval residential-member Grant submissions
• Overseeing the inventory system
o Program Equipment (i.e. shoes, shorts, incentives and so forth)
• Execution of monthly social events and races
Each month, the Program Director will conduct the following meetings:
• Team Leader meeting
• Individual conferences with facility contacts
• Staff leadership meetings with the Program Coordinator and Director of Member Services

The Program Director is directly responsible for and evaluated on the following:
• Attainment of monthly goals related to recruitment and retention as agreed to with the Director of Programming
• Inventory accountability of program gear
• Maintaining updated tracking documentation for resident and non-resident members

How to apply

Qualified candidates, please send resume, running resume, and cover letter to Wylie Belasik, wylie@backonmyfeet.org. Please be sure to include city in role description.