We are hiring for a Sexual Assault Advocate
Company: Verity
Position: Sexual Assault Advocate
Reports to: Intervention Team Leadership
Status: Full time. Nonexempt
Salary: $26 an hour (eligible for $1/hour bilingual pay differential)
Benefits: Generous holiday pay and vacation time accrual; 80 hours sick time and 3 flexible personal days. Medical, dental, and vision benefits will begin after completion of the first 60 days. Comprehensive Employment Assistance Wellness Program available immediately.
Summary: Serve survivors of sexual assault and/or human trafficking as an advocate with Verity and Family Justice Center, ensuring comprehensive support for individuals in need. This includes providing accompaniment at child forensic interviews held on-site at Redwood Children’s Center. Working directly with youth identified as Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC). The team of professional advocates manage individual cases, providing survivors with advocacy, crisis intervention, accompaniment, and resources as needed to best serve their specific circumstances.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Crisis Intervention/Accompaniment/Advocacy Services
- Provide medical/legal accompaniment services to Redwood Children’s Center clients and their families to ensure interviews have Verity accompaniment services.
- Provide in-person, remote, and telephone crisis intervention for FJC and Verity clients.
- Support survivors through the investigative and criminal justice systems by providing case status information, explaining investigative and prosecution processes, and accompanying victims to law enforcement interviews, medical exams, and court.
- Provide follow up and on-going advocacy services.
- Coordinate with the Verity and FJCSC teams to ensure adequate service delivery.
- Provides education on topics such as birth control, safe sex practices, boundaries, teen clinics, harm reduction strategies, safety planning, victim rights.
- Provide resources to clients related to therapy, basic needs, housing, financial, legal, substance recovery, ect.
- Coordination and support for emergency services such as shelter, police report filing, transportation, basic needs and safety.
- Community Outreach and Collaboration: I engage in outreach activities within the community, collaborating with partner agencies to enhance support networks specifically presenting about Sexual Assault, CSEC and Human Trafficking.
- Uphold legal responsibilities for mandated reporting, ensuring that any suspicions of abuse or neglect are reported to the appropriate authorities.
- Accompany clients during Law Enforcement and Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART) forensic interviews. This involvement ensures that clients receive compassionate, informed assistance throughout these critical processes.
Administrative Duties
- Attend twice monthly Verity staff meetings, providing input and updates regarding client needs at FJCSC, as well as staffing or other relevant updates from FJCSC to Verity staff.
- Attend weekly Intervention Department meetings.
- Attend meetings at FJCSC, as required.
- Complete monthly paperwork in a timely manner, most importantly data entry for grant consideration and requirements.
- Work as a team player, collaborating effectively with other staff members.
- Collect, maintain and input accurate confidential client information into Verity’s and FJCSC’s database systems.
- Adhere to all Verity personnel policies and protocols.
- Serve as Verity liaison at the Family Justice Center Sonoma County.
- Attend monthly CSEC committee meetings
- Attend scheduled MDT meetings for identified CSEC youth
- Additional duties and responsibilities as required by the Executive Director or supervisor to facilitate the overall effective operation of Verity.
Education, Competencies, and Required Skills:
- Prior experience working or volunteering in related field is required.
- Bilingual in Spanish and English is highly desirable.
- State certification as a California Rape Crisis Counselor—if chosen applicant is not currently certified, the candidate must be able to complete Verity’s Crisis Line Counselor training upon hiring.
- The selected candidate must complete and be able to pass an extensive background check.
- Must be a self-starter who can work in a team environment and handle a variety of tasks with urgent deadlines.
- Ability to connect and establish trust with a diverse population of clients.
- Ability to interpret and understand instructions, write reports and document client interactions in a clear and concise manner.
- Must understand cultural humility and be committed to working with a diverse client population.
- Ability to maintain a high level of client confidentiality.
- Ability to manage a high client caseload.
- High School diploma or GED or equivalent.
- Offer of position is contingent upon completion of Family Justice Center Sonoma County background check and DOJ fingerprint check.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Ability to work at a desk/computer in a shared workspace for several hours at a time; bending and/or lifting up to 20 pounds, grasping; capacity to navigate two-story building via stairs; specific vision abilities include close and peripheral vision, depth perception, and focus adjustment; work environment represents those an employee encounters while working in an office workspace environment.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This position is flexible and may work onsite or remote, depending on the incumbent’s workload and daily schedule.
Travel
Travel is primarily local during the business day; reliable transportation is required; ability to use personal vehicles for work-related errands.
To Apply:
Applications must include all of the following three items:
- Cover Letter
- Resume
- Completed Verity job application form. This form is available online at: https://www.ourverity.org/careers/
These materials may be provided by email to [email protected].
Resumes will not be considered without a cover letter and completed Verity application.
EEO: Verity provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.