Activities/Programs Assistant - River's Edge

About the position

The ideal candidate will have infectious enthusiasm, a go-getter attitude, and the intelligence and desire to grow in a rewarding career. You’d be a jack-of-all-trades, take-it-as-it-comes outgoing leader designing and executing activities that make a true impact in the quality of our resident’s lives. And with that, you must have superb communication skills, be impeccably reliable, and able to meet deadlines – even in the face of ever-shifting priorities!

Responsibilities

• Ensure our memory care residents recognize personal satisfaction and enrichment through designing and implementing innovative and creative activities, programs, outings and other events.
• Develop newsletter content, flyers, activity calendars, one-pagers, and other collateral material that support resident/family/staff awareness and engagement.
• Collaborate with other Department Heads to ensure full visibility of programming.
• Develop, proactively plan and implement creative activities, outings and programs that enrich our memory care resident’s lives.
• Control costs, manage the activities budget, manage and inspire the activities team.
• Promote participation in activities and help foster social connectedness between memory care residents.
• Gather feedback from residents concerning activities and adjust programs to best meet the resident's needs.
• Involve family members and guests in activities/programs whenever possible.

Requirements

• EXCELLENT communication skills (e.g. face-to-face, in-person, phone).
• INCREDIBLE detail-orientation.
• SELF-DIRECTED – Must be able to take a project, run with it, and exceed expectations by anticipating needs.
• CREATIVITY – We’re outside-the-box thinkers.
• MALLEABILITY – Ability to adapt quickly to changes.
• ORGANIZATION – Must stay organized to manage multiple responsibilities.