Creative Arts and Digital Content Coordinator

Job DetailsJob Location: Long Island City - Long Island City, NY 11101Position Type: Full-Time Non-ExemptSalary Range: $32.97 - $38.47 HourlyTitle:  Creative Arts and Digital Content Coordinator 

Unit: Creative Arts

Reports To: Director of Creative Arts

Status: Full-Time; Regular; Non-Exempt

Salary: $32.97 to $38.47 (approximately $60,000 - $70,000 annually)

Location: In-Person, LIC, NY, as well as other Fortune locations and project sites, including Rikers Island

Schedule: 35 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm). Occasional nights and weekends will be required

 

 

Organization Overview: 

The Fortune Society, Inc. (Fortune) has been working for over 57 years in service to our mission: to support successful reentry from incarceration and promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities. The organization has evolved into one of the nation’s preeminent reentry and justice-informed service organizations, providing formerly incarcerated people with the skills and wrap-around services needed to break the cycle of crime and incarceration and to build productive lives in their communities.  

 

Fortune has grown steadily over the years to an agency with close to $90 million in annual budget with just under 600 staff. We anticipate that we will keep growing, both in size and depth of service. Fortune has a dual mission: both advocacy and service. The advocacy portion of our mission focuses on building a more just criminal legal system and reducing the barriers to reentry into society. The service side of Fortune has evolved to encompass a broad range of programs that started with employment and education and now includes a robust array of services, among them: alternatives to incarceration, supervised release, court advocacy, discharge planning within correctional facilities, licensed substance use and mental health treatment, a housing continuum ranging from emergency and transitional through permanent congregate and scattered site housing, assistance in obtaining benefits, a care management unit, HIV services, a food and nutrition program, and an arts program. Each service we provide is informed by the needs of the population we serve. Fortune currently serves approximately 14,000 people a year. Our program models are recognized, both nationally and internationally, for their quality and innovation. We have locations in Brooklyn, The Bronx, Manhattan and Queens. 

 

Program Mission:

The Fortune Arts Community activates the restorative and transformative capacities of art, art making and radical joy to build community and imagine and advocate for future freedoms filled with dignity and wholeness.

 

Position Summary:

The role of the Creative Arts and Digital Content Coordinator is to support the Arts program to plan and execute projects and programming that are in direct service to the Fortune community and to the wider NYC community of directly-impacted people, including those currently detained on Rikers Island. The Coordinator will serve as the point person for the creation and transmittal of digital content for people detained at Rikers related to substance misuse education, recovery, and reentry that will be uploaded to NYC Department of Corrections-issued tablets.  The Coordinator will work directly with a production consultancy to generate and film such content, and will liaise with Fortune’s Behavioral Health team and, potentially, representatives from the NYC Department of Correction (DOC) to facilitate the dissemination of the content to people in DOC custody. The Coordinator will also facilitate art workshops and guide on- and off-site art projects and perform assigned administrative duties that may include, but not be limited to, program referrals, documenting attendance, promoting the overall program, and supporting special events/workshops. 
 

Core Competencies:

Mission and Fit – The selected candidate must embody the values and mission of The Fortune Society. This includes meeting participants where they are in their healing process, demonstrating the agency’s values through compassion and understanding, and affirming that none of us should be measured by the worse things we have done.

 

Artistic Integrity – The Coordinator must possess a deep appreciation for the Arts in all forms and believe that it provides potent, accessible, proven pathways to personal and collective healing.

 

Organizational and Project Management Skills – The Coordinator should be detail-oriented, highly organized and capable of supporting multiple arts initiatives at once, managing production timelines, materials, and logistics while keeping projects on track from planning to presentation.

 

Communication and Collaboration – Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential for this role. The Creative Arts and Digital Content Coordinator must be able to effectively coordinate with particip