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The Program Coordinator is responsible for the planning, management, and implementation of Vista Center’s Senior Nutritional Program and partner transportation programs and supports the operations of group activities. This is based in person in our San Jose branch.

As a part of the Adult Services Team, reporting to the Program Manager, the Program Coordinator is responsible for serving the goals, impact measures and strategic direction of Vista Center’s program along with maintaining and sustaining relationships with partner organizations. This position works Monday to Friday 8:30 – 4:30

Responsibilities Include:

Senior Nutrition Program Responsibilities: • Ordering the SNP meals each week • Curation and marketing of quarterly/weekly menu • Processing SNP program applications on behalf of clients • Food service certification/license
• Weekly, monthly, and quarterly SNP and county reports • Manage SNP volunteers • Facilitate SNP and health department audits • Manage contributions for meal costs and deposits to Branch Director • Maintain clean and organized kitchen • Maintains hazardous materials requirements • Communication with SNP representatives in conjunction with supervisor team • Additional items as approved by supervisor • Escalates client feedback to supervisor team (positive and negative) • Inspections, compliance, safety for SJ (fire, SNP dietitian, Sourcewise, environmental health)

VTA Partner Programs: • Processing program applications on behalf of clients • Maintain participation roster • Organize benefits pickup and distribution • Communication with VTA representatives in conjunction with supervisor team

Group Programs: • Database entries for all client group classes for billing
• Preparation of weekly/daily programs - setting up for yoga, Ceramics, lunch outings, etc. • Front desk coverage support

Success metrics include: • Be innovative and willing to challenge the status quo; looking outside Vista Center for better approaches and solutions to the challenges facing clients with vision loss. • Cultivate existing relationships with the program team to ensure enough resources and access to services. • Collaborate effectively within Vista Center and with external partners. • Ensure the delivery of qualitative and quantitative goals and outcomes of designated programs and services. • Manage effectively within the annual SNP operating budget, and report accurately on progress made and challenges encountered.

Vista Center is the premier service provider for people who are blind or have low vision from ages 3 to 103, offering a complete range of rehabilitative services to residents of the Bay Area and beyond.

Palo Alto Society for the Blind opened in 1936 as a home open to anyone in Palo Alto living with blindness or visual impairment.

With a shift over the years from residential services to fostering independent living, the name changed to Peninsula Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired in 1970, with a final name change in 2005 to Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Since 2001, Vista has been the only provider of services in San Benito County, an area previously unserved. Doran Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Santa Cruz merged with Vista Center in 2007 and in 2018, Santa Clara Valley Blind Center (SCVBC) in San Jose joined the team.

Such growth has greatly increased our capacity to serve thousands of clients with a robust array of geographically centered services and classes, in complement to our existing itinerant services model.