Prevention Specialist

Position Title: Prevention Specialist

Employment Type/Hours: Full Time 40 hours per week

Shift: Monday-Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm subject to change

Supervisor: Director of community Programs and Education

Department: Education and Outreach

FLSA Status: Exempt

FLSA Exemption Test: Professional Exemption

Starting Salary/Hourly Rate: $48000/year

Last Updated: 1/17/2024

Our Mission

Safe Berks provides a safe haven and support for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault through education advocacy and a relentless commitment to prevent abuse. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment where individuals can be their true selves and feel empowered to stand up to all forms of oppression.

Our Values

SAFETY

We believe that freedom from physical emotional spiritual and psychological harm is a basic human right of all individuals. We know that domestic violence sexual assault oppression and privilege include power-based tactics that affect physical emotional and psychological safety and we work to help survivors heal the wounds caused by power-based violence.

RESPECT

We value the dignity of all individuals while appreciating our differences and celebrating and honoring our diversity. Respect is reflected in the way we treat our clients ourselves and members of the community. We believe our work requires us to reach out to marginalized individuals and communities and to create space to celebrate and nurture them.

EMPOWERMENT

We believe empowerment begins with recognizing and knowing that individually and collectively Safe Berks clients staff and volunteers have the strength to make necessary change and to accomplish our goals. We recognize that success is defined by each individual given their experience talents and culture and we celebrate this success.

EDUCATION

We will educate ourselves and our community to reject and prevent violence and oppression in our own lives and in the lives of the people around us. We recognize that our mission and values are transformational and we must work with intention to break down social and cultural norms that continue to divide us.

HOPE

We believe that hope is key to our existence to our ability to persevere and to achieve goals. We recognize that our work fosters hope and resilience and improves physical emotional spiritual and psychological well-being.

Equity and Inclusion

Safe Berks is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where all staff residents clients board members and volunteers feel safe and empowered to stand up to oppression of all kinds. We believe that the collective sum of our individual differences life experiences knowledge creative outlets innovative approaches and solutions unique capabilities and talent that our employees exhibit in their work represents the quality of our life-saving services. Reflective of the community we serve and embrace we celebrate differences in age color disability ethnicity family or marital status gender identity or expression language national origin physical and mental ability political affiliation race religion sexual orientation socio-economic status veteran status and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Position Standards

1. In-Direct Service Delivery Standard
2. Employee demonstrates a commitment to delivering quality service to all agency affiliates partners community members and individuals seeking assistance from Safe Berks and does so in a manner that is in line with agency values of safety respect empowerment education and hope. Employee displays a team-based approach to work and is always willing to pitch-in to complete the work of the department.
3. Conduct and Behavioral Standard
4. Employee maintains respectful relationships and interactions with other employees management donors board members community members clients and survivors. They conduct themselves in a manner that demonstrates integrity and a commitment to the organizations mission. Employee always fosters open communication and is responsive to community partners donors co-workers and management through means of email text and phone calls.
5. Essential Skills Standard
6. Employee has strong time management skills which are essential to the work of in-direct staff and staff facilitating programming to third parties. They accurately estimate the time required to complete a task and sequences tasks appropriately to meet assigned deadlines. Employee displays timeliness in the management of projects and when unable to meet a deadline the employee seeks assistance from team members and/or their supervisor.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities (includes but is not limited to the following):

1. Develop and implement an agency evaluation plan for prevention programming. Collect review and maintain data required by funders for program reports and monthly/quarterly reports.
2. Attend training state coalition meetings and professional development opportunities regarding prevention of sexual violence training and programming.
3. Review prevention curriculum and programming to ensure Safe Berks is using the most up-to-date versions.
4. Stay up to date on research-based sexual violence prevention strategies programs and media development.
5. Coordinate and implement the execution of prevention programming to various populations of all ages within the Berks County community.
6. Deliver in-person and virtual community education initiatives/activities.
7. Attend community/tabling events to provide outreach and information regarding Safe Berks services.
8. Cultivate new and/or strengthen existing community partnerships as it pertains to implementing prevention programming.
9. Assist supervisor in meeting requirements of all grant-related projects.
10. Maintain all necessary records and files related to prevention programming.
11. Assist with maintaining program equipment and supplies.
12. All other duties as determined by department director.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each of the essential duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

Requirements:

Employment Experience (amount and kind)

• 3 5 years experience working in an educational setting or human services field(s)

Education (general level required or specific courses)

• Associates degree in Education Social Work Gender Studies or related Human Services subject preferred but will consider relevant employment experience in lieu of degree
• High school diploma or equivalent degree required

Essential Physical Requirements:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each of the essential duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

Other Requirements:

• Completion of a background check request; FBI State Police and Child Abuse Clearances obtained within required timeframe under Act 153 through agency vendor
• Successful completion of required Advocate Training provided by agency
• Valid drivers license current vehicle registration acceptable driving record and PA Minimum Liability insurance coverage of $15000 Bodily Injury per person / $30000 Bodily Injury per accident and $5000 Property Damage or $35000 Combined Single Limit if your position requires operating a personal or organization owned vehicle.
• Safe Berks provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability genetic information marital status amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. Safe Berks complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfers leave of absence compensation and training.

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