Wellness Center Director

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Bronx, NY, US

11 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

The Bronx Wellness Center will be the first of its kind in New York State, representing a significant investment in integrative community wellness. Start Care’s vision for the Center is to promote healing and uplift community health by meeting people with radical compassion and facilitating mutual trust, connection, and care. Start Care will work alongside the Bronx community to provide accessible, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented support, available to the people across the lifespan and oriented around justice.

Meaningful partnerships with residents, organizations, and local leaders will create a hub of opportunity for guests to connect with each other, social and health care services, and their broader community. Wide-ranging, holistic programming will promote reciprocal healing through discovering and building upon shared strengths .

The Community Wellness Center Director is responsible for the day-to-day management, coordination, and oversight of all operations at the BPC Wellness Center, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, person-centered programming and a welcoming, affirming environment for all guests, consistent with trauma-informed and healing justice principles. Operating at the intersection of community wellness, partnership development, and organizational leadership, the Center Director will guide the Center from its inception through active implementation, ensuring that all programs and services are developed and delivered with fidelity to the Center's social prescribing and healing justice wellness model.

The Center Director will serve as the primary liaison between the Center and OMH and the Community Advisory Board, and will lead efforts to strengthen community partnerships, promote operational excellence, and advance the Center's standing as a hub of creativity, wellness, and belonging for the Bronx community.

• Lead all aspects of Center operations, including program implementation, staffing, scheduling, facility oversight, emergency management, and day-to-day administration, ensuring continuity, quality, and fidelity to the Center's wellness model across all programming domains
• Serve as the primary point of contact for OMH and the Community Advisory Board, attending meetings, preparing updates, and ensuring that OMH reporting requirements and CAB guidance are integrated into ongoing Center operations and planning
• Recruit, supervise, and support a multidisciplinary Center team, fostering a culture of accountability, learning, and staff wellness
• Oversee the implementation of programming across all domains , partnering with Programs & Strategy on development , and ensuring offerings are flexible, culturally responsive, and individually tailored to guest needs .
• Participate in and/or lead case conferences, CD meetings, and staff meetings, as appropriate.
• Ensure all staff maintain the appropriate current licensure or credentials to perform their job duties.
• Prepare reports to inform Start Care leadership of the status and implementation of programs, services, and quality initiatives.
• Develop and maintain active partnerships with community-based organizations, wellness practitioners, academic institutions, and other local entities, ensuring that local partners are meaningfully integrated into Center programming and that guests are connected to external resources as needed
• Support the Development team in identifying and pursuing funding opportunities, including contributing to grant narratives, funder reports, and donor engagement activities as needed
• Represent the Center and Start Care in community settings, including outreach events, stakeholder engagement, wellness fairs, and sector convenings, in collaboration with the Community Engagement Coordinator and Start Care outreach team
• Travel within the Bronx and greater New York City area for community engagement and partnership activities

• Work collaboratively to further develop and operationalize the program model
• Collaborate with the Evaluation Unit to support continuous quality improvement processes, including participation in Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, review of program data, and implementation of…