- Salary
- $32 – $35/hr
- Location
- Rochester, NY
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Director
- Education
- Bachelor
- Source
- Paylocity
Description
Description
Director of the Woods Center for Wellbeing
Compensation: $32–$35 per hour
Schedule: 35 hours per week | On-site position
Position overview:
The Mental Health Association is seeking a dynamic, compassionate, and collaborative Director of the Woods Center for Wellbeing; to lead and oversee a comprehensive, peer-centered wellness program. The Director will provide leadership and supervision across a multidisciplinary team delivering drop-in center services, life skills programming, and creative wellness activities that promote recovery, connection, personal growth, and community integration.
The ideal candidate brings a strong understanding of mental health recovery and peer support, experience responding to mental health crises, and the leadership skills necessary to support, develop, and inspire a diverse team. A commitment to person-centered, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented services is essential.
Key Responsibilities
- Program Leadership: Oversee the daily operations, development, and delivery of Woods Center programs, ensuring accessible, engaging, and high-quality services that respond to the needs of the community.
- Team Leadership & Supervision: Lead, supervise, mentor, and support a multidisciplinary team across drop-in services, life skills, and creative wellness programming. Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive work environment.
- Crisis Management: Provide leadership and guidance in responding to mental health crises, supporting staff in navigating challenging situations and ensuring appropriate connections to community resources and crisis services.
- Peer Support & Recovery: Promote peer values, lived-experience leadership, self-determination, empowerment, and recovery-oriented practices throughout all program activities.
- Community Partnerships: Develop and maintain relationships with community organizations, service providers, and other partners to strengthen referrals and expand opportunities for individuals accessing the Center.
- Quality & Compliance: Monitor program outcomes, maintain accurate documentation, ensure compliance with agency and funding requirements, and lead continuous quality improvement efforts.
- Administrative Oversight: Participate in budget development, monitor program expenditures, oversee reporting requirements, and collaborate with agency leadership to support organizational goals.
Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in human services or related field preferred.
- NYS Peer Specialist Certification preferred.
- Minimum of two years of experience working in a public social service or human services setting, including program administration.
- Demonstrated experience in mental health crisis management and de-escalation.
- Previous supervisory experience, including the ability to lead, mentor, and develop staff.
- Experience leading or coordinating multidisciplinary teams and diverse programming.
- Strong understanding of peer support principles, mental health recovery, trauma-informed care, and community-based services.
- Excellent communication, organizational, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively while managing multiple priorities and program responsibilities.
- Valid driver's license, clean driving record, and reliable transportation required.