Temporary Advocacy Specialist

About the role

Temporary position through January 31, 2027. Full-time, 40 hours per week with a 4-day, 32-hour work week; YWCA provides 8 hours of Company Sponsored Time 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 at on-site and off-site locations.
• Offer support and information over the phone, in person, and via video conferencing software.
• Provide in-person or virtual advocacy 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 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 caseload and provide advocacy to ongoing cases.
• Coordinate and co-facilitate survivor-centered support groups, including maintaining and updating group curriculum per grant requirements, facilitating multi-week psychoeducational support group sessions (1–2 hours per session, up to 8 sessions per group), submitting intake, reporting, and feedback paperwork, maintaining relationships with community and organizational partners for co-facilitation, and ensuring a regular schedule for all support groups.
• Document and report participant-related information in compliance with federal and state requirements and program/organizational 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.
• 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

• Strong social justice component requiring critical thinking through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty; knowledge of core principles of anti-racism and ability to ground those principles in everyday work are required job skills and core values.
• High school diploma or G.E.D. required.
• Experience working with persons in crisis.
• Language fluency: verbally and in writing, clearly