Peer Support Specialist (Men's Program)

About the role

Journey to New Life is dedicated to supporting your growth as a Peer Support Specialist; within your first month, we’ll provide Certified Peer Support (CPS) training to enhance your skills and deepen your impact. As a Peer Support Specialist, your personal journey with incarceration and recovery becomes a powerful tool for others on a similar path. By sharing your lived experiences, you’ll foster trust, provide guidance, and inspire hope for lasting change. Through one-on-one mentorship, support groups, and post-incarceration emergency resources, you will play an essential role in empowering others to reclaim their lives.

Responsibilities

• Community Members’ Well-Being: Build positive mentoring relationships with community members in both the residences and main office, ensuring clients’ confidentiality and safety.
• Community Building: In partnership with the Peer Support Team and all staff members of JTNL, actively support community building efforts by co-coordinating social events and skill building workshops.
• Peer Support Services: Provide individual recovery support by setting a positive example, helping clients set and achieve their recovery goals, and encouraging attendance at recovery meetings. Facilitate access to local community-based resources as needed.
• Oversee Peer Support Groups: Create content and schedules for groups, lead groups, recruit/train/and supervise volunteer group leaders, ensure at least one Peer Support Group per week in the residences and one at the main office, track group attendance, and make documents available for reporting.
• First Stop Services: Assist clients on a walk-in basis with essential needs, build relationships, and help clients navigate immediate and/or long-term resources.
• Professionalism: Respond to voicemails, texts, emails, and messages in Teams in a timely manner; address client issues privately with respect and confidentiality; set healthy boundaries with community members.
• Program Evaluations: Conduct evaluations with the Peer Support Team and create a process for collecting feedback from Peer Support Group participants to improve service delivery.
• Teamwork: Collaborate with House Managers, Case Managers, and the Employment Specialist to help clients achieve their goals; partner with staff and community partners to lead groups effectively; communicate clearly and share workload fairly.

Qualifications

• Personal experience with recovery required; personal experience with incarceration strongly preferred
• Commitment to the mission and values of JTNL
• Strong interpersonal skills and a warm, outgoing personality
• Professional maturity, good judgment, honesty, and integrity
• High school diploma or equivalency
• Good command of the English language, including grammar and punctuation
• Professional in written and verbal communication
• Highly motivated and self-directed
• Ability to work as part of a collaborative, cross-functional team
• Highly organized, thorough, and detail-oriented
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and database systems
• Reliable transportation
• Adherence to agency’s non-discrimination policy and ability to interact effectively with diverse co-workers, clients, and residents
• Personal traits: empathetic, kind, open-minded, creative, willing to learn new skills, and ready to have fun

Pay

The salary range for this role is $42,000 to $47,000.

Benefits

• Health Insurance Stipend: JTNL provides a monthly health insurance stipend of up to $500, which can be used to cover health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Confidential support and resources for personal and work-related issues.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): To help employees balance work and personal life.
• Holidays: 10 paid holidays per year, plus the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Retirement Plan: Partnership with T. Rowe Price to help plan for the future; aims to provide an employee match beginning in 2027.
• Life Insurance & Supplemental Insurance: $15,000 in life insurance and $15,000 in AD&D insurance through Principal Life Insurance Company; supplemental insurance options available, such as disability or rental insurance.