Managers of Butler County senior centers call bingo games, oversee the process of arts and crafts projects, and introduce speakers who come to a local venue to talk to senior citizens.
Brittany Gilfillan, program manager for the Butler County Area Agency on Aging, likens the position to being a friendly face at a restaurant or coffee shop.
“A manager's job would be to execute programming at our senior centers,” Gilfillan said Monday, March 6. “For a lot of these seniors, the senior centers are the only places they are going on a regular basis.”
The Butler County Area Agency on Aging is looking for a part-time manager to work at the Tanglewood Center in Butler Township.
Gilfillan said the current manager is leaving at the end of the month, and the agency would like to get a new person in the position before then to take over her job duties.
According to Gilfillan, the open job is for a part-time manager who would work between 8 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. mainly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Gilfillan also said managers for senior centers mainly “execute” tasks and events laid out by supervisors and leaders of the agency on aging, so a potential hire should be good with communicating.
“We're looking for someone who is friendly, outgoing and has a level of care for senior citizens,” Gilfillan said, “people with experience working with seniors, someone with experience with communication and management.”
Butler County senior centers are places where active, independent people over age 60 can go to share a meal, enjoy exercise classes, create art projects, play games, socialize, go on trips and listen to educational speakers, among other things. They are meant to help people over 60 form connections with others and act as a social club, according to an email from Gilfillan.
Gilfillan said each of the agency on aging’s senior centers has a manager who performs overseeing duties for activities and events. She also said the job does not involve senior care work or involvement with health care of any kind.
Gilfillan emphasized that it is important to have a center manager for each facility.
“We really can't operate the center without it,” Gilfillan said.
