Sexual Assault Advocacy Specialist

About the role

We offer a 4-day, 32-hour work week, and YWCA will provide this role 8 hours of Company Sponsored Time for you to use on Fridays to maintain work-life balance while maintaining pay at 40 hours a week.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct services including general, medical, and legal advocacy to primary victims/survivors and/or secondary victims/survivors such as family, friends, and guardians including on-site and off-site locations which may include but is not limited to:
  • Support and information over the phone, in person, and via video conferencing software.
  • In-person or virtual advocacy as needed at schools, Clark County Juvenile Detention Center, Clark County Jail, Children's Justice Center, Clark County Courthouse and various police precinct stations.
• Provide in-person or virtual support during medical forensic exams at Peace Health or Legacy Salmon Creek emergency rooms.
• Communicate with law enforcement, legal agencies, community organizations/partners, county/state/federal agencies, national organizations/partners, universities, families, and other relevant programs as needed to provide survivor directed support.
• Refer sexual assault program participants to other YWCA Clark County programs according to participant needs and program procedures.
• Monitor warrant cases and communicate with legal agencies and families as appropriate.
• Work with the program director to establish and effectively manage an active case load and provide advocacy to ongoing cases.
• Coordinate and co-facilitate survivor-centered support groups, which may include:
  • Maintaining and updating group curriculum in accordance with grant requirements,
  • Facilitating hour-long, 8-week sessions of a psychoeducational support group,
  • Submitting intake, reporting, and feedback paperwork,
  • Maintaining relationships with community partners and organization partners in co-facilitating group,
  • And ensuring a regular schedule for all support groups is upheld.
• Document and report participant related information in a manner that complies with federal and state requirements as well as in conjunction with program and organization policies and procedures.
• Attend community and outreach events at the direction of the program manager.
• Attend further education, training, and certification opportunities with director approval.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with community partners and organizations.
• Make mandatory reports as legally required.
• Collaborate as a team on program special events.
• Document and report in a timely manner participant related information, complying with federal and state requirements as well as program and organization policies and procedures.
• Maintain Program confidentiality as mandated by program policy and Washington State Statute.
• Ensure comprehension of program and organizational policies and procedures and follow them.
• Track hours worked and turn in monthly timesheet to supervisor on time.

Requirements

• High school diploma or G.E.D. required.
• Experience working with persons in crisis.
• Must be able to pass criminal background check which precludes any conviction in the WA Administration code found on: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=170-06-0120.
• Dependable means of transportation.
• Occasional nights and/or weekends required.

Qualifications

• Language fluency: verbally and in writing, clearly communicate with participants, co-workers, and community partners in English as needed. Bilingual skills preferred.
• Strong time management skills: effectively manage a supervisor determined case load, related paperwork, and respond to requests and questions.
• Ability to work in a self-directed manner: effectively engage in work-related research as needed to support the participants, program operations, or as requested by supervisor.
• Ability to work in a team: consistently convey an open, respectful, and solution-oriented approach to addressing challenges, completing work tasks, and when providing or requesting feedback.
• Ability to work at a higher level: demonstrate unwavering integrity by taking accountability for mistakes, doing what's needed to correct them, and supporting fellow co-workers to do the same.
• Ability to maintain strong boundaries: use work time to support the program and organization in a manner that supports our participant's right to privacy.
• Strong critical thinking skills: in a self-directed manner, resolve challenges and answer questions while knowing when it's time to stop and seek additional guidance and/or direction.
• Ability to achieve greatness: good employees make sure the day-to-day work gets done; great employees do so while in a way that fosters communication within their program and their own professional growth.
• Strong technological skills: strong working knowledge of the MS suite of products, various internet browsers, and video conferencing platforms.
• Unparalleled soft-skills: with little to no prompting, adapt work and communication style to mitigate and/or de-escalate, improve the ability to support our participants and forge lasting and mutually beneficial professional relationships.
• Strong advocacy skills: utilize empowerment-based advocacy to support participants in a manner that supports the organization's core values, goals of the program, and organization's overall mission.
• Strong crisis management skills: effectively and respectfully communicate often-times complex and emotionally charged information to participants, law-enforcement, court officials, co-workers, and supervisor.
• Self-awareness: ability to recognize impact of working with survivors of trauma and willingness to incorporate vicarious resiliency practices.

Pay

$25.96/hour + $1 bilingual differential

Schedule

40 hours per week (32 work, 8 company-sponsored time)

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