Status: Part-time

Hours: 24 hours per week

Pay Range: $ 24.96 per hour + $1.00 Bilingual Differential

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We’ve identified the day-to-day responsibilities linked to each position. In addition to the position specific responsibilities provided below, each YWCA Clark County employee must share responsibility for upholding and modeling the organization’s core value on a daily basis.

Mission Specific

• Think through the lens of racial equity and its intersections with poverty. Use the core principles of anti-racism and grounding those principles in all daily tasks.
• Incorporate the YWCA’s commitment to social justice by understanding how racism, sexism, classism and other oppressions intersect and are embedded in institutions. Seek opportunities for continued learning about racial, gender and class equity.
• Assure that participants, staff, volunteers and community partners are treated with respect and dignity regardless of race, ethnic background, gender or socioeconomic background.
• Gain approval for, track, and engage in activities that meet the organization’s 1% for Social Change requirement.

Program Specific:

Program Implementation & Facilitation

• Co-facilitate CBIM lessons with coaches as needed and provide technical support to ensure effective delivery
• Train and support athletic coaches through the CBIM train-the-trainer model, including organizing and leading “Coaches Clinics”
• Maintain regular presence in school settings, cultivating relationships with students, staff, and extracurricular leaders

Training & Technical Assistance

• Provide individualized support and coaching to athletic staff implementing CBIM, including hosting office hours and peer meetups
• Monitor fidelity to curriculum models and offer troubleshooting, coaching, and best practices
• Successfully complete 56 hours of initial training, followed by 20 hours of annual training thereafter.

Youth Engagement & Campaigns

• Support youth in designing and launching peer-led school campaigns promoting healthy relationships, consent, and positive masculinity
• Collaborate with students to develop and manage content for YWCA’s prevention-focused social media accounts

Community & School Partnership Development

• Build and sustain relationships with partner schools and community collaborators
• Coordinate implementation timelines with athletic departments, administrators, and student support staff
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to align programming with community needs and strengths

Data & Evaluation

• Track program participation, curriculum delivery, and outcome data
• Collaborate with Director of Prevention Education and compliance staff to assess program effectiveness
• Prepare reports and contribute to grant compliance documentation as needed
• Consistently, accurately, and promptly complete narrative reports for all programming activities.
• Request and collect feedback from participating community partners and youth. 
• Accurately track, document and input outreach programming activities and statistics into state database as required by contracts, grants, and program procedures.

There is a strong social justice component to all positions within YWCA Clark County, requiring critical thinking through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Knowing the core principles of anti-racism and grounding those principles in everyday work are required job skills and core values

Related education: 

• High School Diploma or equivalent or position equivalent experience in addition to the experience requirements listed below.  

Related experience: 

• 2–3 years’ experience in youth work, violence prevention, public health, or related fields
• Strong facilitation skills, particularly with adolescents and in school-based or community settings
• Deep understanding of and commitment to racial and gender equity, trauma-informed practice, and culturally responsive engagement
• Ability to build and maintain respectful relationships with youth, families, school staff, and community members
• Must pass background check and adhere to school district safety policies
• Hold active and up to date driver’s license and auto insurance in order to commute throughout Clark County to fulfill job responsibilities.

Preferred Experience:

• Lived or professional experience working with BIPOC communities
• Experience with curriculum implementation, group facilitation, or coach training
• Familiarity with Coaching Boys Into Men, Where We Thrive, or other evidence-based prevention models
• Bilingual in Spanish or another language spoken by local school communities

Strong time management and organization skills: effectively manage a schedule that includes task force meetings, community contacts, partner engagement, training and program specific meetings.  Maintain up-to-date contact lists and calendar.

Strong ability to work with youth experiencing multiple forms of oppression: effectively engage youth in multi-phase prevention plan and offer empowerment-based opportunities for youth to develop leadership skills. Maintain firm boundaries while modeling and building respectful, long term relationships.

Knowledge of: trauma-informed classrooms, sexual health education, designing & implementing lesson plans and evaluation.

Unparalleled soft-skills: Comfortable networking with diverse groups, organizations and individuals. With little to no prompting, adapt work and communication style to mitigate and/or de-escalate, improve the ability to work effectively with community partners as well as program participants, and forge lasting and mutually beneficial professional relationships. Can consistently convey an open, respectful, and solution-oriented approach when seeking support, addressing challenges, completing work tasks, and 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, fostering excellent communication 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 protects our participants’ right to privacy. Set appropriate professional boundaries with youth served as well as model healthy boundary setting to support skill development. 

Strong critical thinking skills: in a self-directed manner, resolve challenges and answer questions while knowing when it’s time to seek additional guidance and/or direction. 

Strong technological skills: strong working knowledge of the MS suite of products, Google applications, various internet browsers, data entry programs, and social media platforms. 

Strong advocacy skills: utilize empowerment-based advocacy and strengths-based perspective to support participants in a manner that supports the organization’s core values, goals of the program, and organization’s overall-all mission. 

Strong crisis management skills: effectively and respectfully communicate often-times complex and emotionally charged information to participants, community partners, site hosts, co-workers, and supervisor. Communicate information through a trauma informed lens.

Don't meet every single requirement after reading through this post? You may be just the right candidate for the role or future roles, and please know we value lived experience! Studies have shown that due to white supremacy culture, systemically oppressed communities are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. YWCA Clark County is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.