Community Advocate, Sexual Assault

Expectations of your role:

• Provide support to clients in navigating various institutions (i.e. Support clients and legal systems including assistance with filing protection orders, breaking leases, relocations, CPS, and interactions with law enforcement
• Responds to referrals and calls within required time frame
• Conducts intakes with new client, including screening for eligibility and to determine essential needs
• Housing assessments for new move-in for emergency shelter
• Provide crisis intervention advocacy
• Collects and completed reporting and quarterly narratives using data and statistical information
• Develops and maintains relations with community partners and attend community meetings.
• Facilitate and create presentations that are relevant to associated partners and offers services
• Engage in community networking activities to both increase access to services for survivors furthest away from opportunity specifically Black and African American survivors.
• Maintain 20 hours of continued education hours about advocacy-based Domestic Violence
• Actively engages in agency-wide Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) and strives for racially equitable outcomes; takes responsibility for creating and maintaining a safe and welcoming community by making room for populations who routinely encounter system oppressions

Must have's to be successful:

• One year of Direct Social Service experience or translatable lived experience in lieu of a social services degree
• Strong orientation and familiarity toward system navigating multiple systems (i.e., municipal, superior courts, legal systems, and law enforcement)
• Experience working with survivors from marginalized communities, specifically African American communities.
• Knowledgeable about gender-based violence, such as sexual assault, domestic violence, intimate partner violence and human trafficking
• Skilled at using Microsoft office suite including Outlook, Calendar, Teams, excel and virtual meeting technology such as ZOOM
• Valid Driver’s License and ability to travel independently between multiple work sites within a day
• Willingness to complete a minimum of 20 hours of initial basic training that covers: advocacy-based counseling, history of domestic violence, safety planning and crisis intervention

Physical Requirements

• Continuously exchanges information through listening and talking with clients, agency staff, employers, representatives of community organizations and other individuals in the community
• Frequently stands, walks, sits and climbs in performing duties in the workspace and in the community
• Continuous use telephones, computers, fax machines and other office equipment and supplies
• Occasionally must access personal living spaces within multi-level apartment complexes
• Frequent travel up to 50% of the time by personal vehicle

Hours, Rate, and Benefits

• Hourly Rate: $28.50 per hour
• Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, retirement plan, plus generous vacation, holiday, and sick leave plans
• At the time of hire, employees may enroll voluntarily in the Fidelity 403b Plan. After two years of employment, employees are eligible to participate in the YWCA Retirement Fund