Director of Community Life Services

Come join our dedicated team at Freedom Plaza, a wonderful place to work! 

You’ll join a team with a strong work ethic, with management and co-workers who want to make a positive impact in our residents’ lives. These extraordinary leaders and role models will help you craft a long, satisfying, and fruitful senior living career. Freedom Plaza is managed by LCS, the nation’s leading developer and manager of senior living communities. We continually strive to create an environment of trust and transparency by helping employees find a sense of purpose in their job and achieve their highest potential while providing hospitality to those who work and live at Freedom Plaza.
 

Freedom Plaza is recruiting for the Director of Community Life Services. In this role you will be responsible for the planning, coordinating and directing of a wide and varied scope of activities and programming which meet the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, vocational, social, physical, health services, and environmental needs of the residents.

Here are a few of the responsibilities of the position: 

• Design and implement a diverse monthly calendar of events, including recreational, wellness, creative arts, lifelong learning, and intergenerational programming.
• Coordinate with clinical, dining, and wellness staff to ensure activities are inclusive and meet residents’ individual abilities and interests.
• Ensure programming reflects residents’ feedback, preferences, and needs across all care levels.
• Build partnerships with local organizations, performers, and volunteers to enhance resident experience.
• Create annual plan, goals, budgets, pricing and performance standards; maintain appropriate records pertaining to the department budget; monitor and control cost expenditures, providing justifications/explanations for variances as appropriate. Submit all appropriate billings for services provided by the department.

Here are a few of the qualifications we need you to have: 

• College degree in recreational therapy and/or Activity Director Certification preferred
• Two years of appropriate professional experience in geriatrics, recreation, or social administration preferred.
• Two years of experience in leadership preferred.

 If you're an enthusiastic, compassionate, senior care professional who is passionate about hospitality and senior engagement- please apply, we'd love to get to know you!

 

Freedom Plaza is an EEO Employer