Home Life Director

Home Life Director 7507 West Madison Street, Forest Park, IL 60130 $80,000

• $90,000 a year
• Full-time $80,000
• $90,000 a year
• Full-time L'Arche Chicago is a community in which people with and without intellectual disabilities share life in our four homes in the Oak Park area of Chicagoland.

We celebrate the unique value of each person and create lifelong places of belonging through small, residential homes. Core members (adults with intellectual disabilities) receive the best care and opportunities to pursue their passions with direct care support from Live-in and Live-out Assistants who build a homelife where everyone has a genuine place of belonging. L'Arche Chicago is looking to add a Home Life Director to our team.

Job Overview:

The Home Life Director leads a team of four House Managers, a Care Manager, and a Training & Compliance Manager who work together to build a community and ensure that high-quality service provision is a consistent standard in our homes. Additionally, the team ensures that the core values of L'Arche Chicago are effectively lived out in our intentional community of faith. The ideal candidate has experience being a people-focused manager, enjoys building and enhancing communities, excels at coaching others to discover their unique gifts, and has experience working with people with developmental disabilities. This position is for you if you value people over process, take proactive, strategic ownership of your work, possess the grace to directly address conflict in a compassionate, people-centric manner, and are energized by a life-sharing community where authentic relationships and an egalitarian spirit are at the heart of everything we do.

Job Responsibilities:

Oversee high-quality care and service delivery for all core members, focusing on medical, emotional, psychiatric, and physical needs. Lead and mentor direct reports, using a person-centered, strengths and gifts-based approach. Work collaboratively with House Managers in problem-solving, information sharing, and team building. Foster a culture of community, accountability, and professional growth. Bridge the strategic organizational vision with the daily life of the residential community. Design systems and develop ideas for long-term, cumulative impact. Be present in our four homes to build relationships and to monitor services. Lead the screening process of potential new core members. Host parent/guardian meetings to facilitate effective collaboration with families. Ensure compliance with relevant federal, state, and local laws and regulations, as well as contract requirements. Coordinate care-giving resources, ongoing professional development opportunities, and training. Attend professional network meetings to share best practices and to collaborate with other local agencies, networks, and membership organizations. Assess the changing needs of the community in collaboration with the Leadership Team. Participate in community-level decision-making. Advocate on behalf of core members with State case managers, families, consultants, and other professionals, as needed, to ensure the individual needs and desires of core members are met. Maintain availability to coordinate staffing and support needs during emergencies. Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

5+ years of people management experience required. Experience in a people-centered, socially engaged, mission-driven organization. Experience working within community-building organizations or community-focused living environments. Enjoys building relationships. Experience working with adults with disabilities preferred. Strategic leader who can effectively guide organizational change in a people-over-process manner. Nurture the gifts and growth of all staff members and core members in L'Arche Chicago. Approaches work from an organizational perspective, understanding how individual actions can impact the whole, and can hold the complexity of an individual's needs and the team's needs. Represents the mission, strategic plan, and work plan of L'Arche in meetings, in the community, and at events where appropriate. Good judgment to manage sensitive and confidential matters; high degree of personal integrity. Strong self-awareness, cultural competency, emotional intelligence, and humility; grounded and flexible with a high degree of integrity and transparency. Ability to adapt as needed, self-manage, and prioritize between and manage multiple demands.

Position Structure:

Full-time In-office position Standard business hours L'Arche Chicago services residents 24/7. The Home Life Director might occasionally be asked to support urgent issues outside of their normal working hours.

Benefits:

Health insurance 401K with match Paid time off A flexible in-person working environment

Job Type:

Full-time Pay:

$80,000.00

• $90,000.

00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) 401(k) matching Flexible schedule Health insurance Paid time off

Work Location:

In person