Community Prevention Educator
Philadelphia Children's Alliance - Philadelphia, PA

Full-time


Mission: 

The Philadelphia Children's Alliance (PCA) is an independent non-profit organization that promotes healing and justice for sexually abused children in Philadelphia. Using a multidisciplinary approach, we collaborate with our partners in child protection, law enforcement, and medical and mental health services to provide forensic interviews, victim support and counseling services at the Philadelphia Safety Collaborative, a co-located child-friendly facility. We are committed to using the best practices and we promote this model locally and nationally.

Summary:

Reporting to the Manager of Intake and Prevention Services, this position is responsible for providing outreach and coordination to the community to address prevention services and support for child sexual abuse.

The Community Prevention Educator helps schedule, coordinate and facilitate trainings for community partners, youth service adults and for school students K – 3rd grades. They maintain available resources and collaborate with community partners to address care gaps, develop best practices, and guide policy and resource development.


Key Job Duties:

  • Capability to engage professionally during outreach and training facilitation. Schedule and coordinate trainings for different organizations, community partners and schools
  • Participate in research related to effectiveness of learning processes (i.e., surveys and/or group-based interviews about training and implementation over the course of the project).
  • Attend monthly learning collaborative meetings hosted by CMSN/NYU.
  • Assist CMSN/NYU in exploring other mechanisms of monitoring implementation fidelity of the two programs which may take the form of site visit interviews, direct observations, or surveys.
  • Provide CMSN/NYU with a schedule of offered workshops.
  • Conduct a post workshop evaluation with students in 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms utilizing a modified version of the validated Children’s Knowledge of Abuse Questionnaire (CKAQ).
  • Engage with CMSN/NYU about research opportunities within kindergarten and first grade classrooms.
  • Ability to manage events logistics including but not limited to registrations and evaluations
  • Maintain sufficient instructional materials for trainings.
  • Provide on-site support on day of trainings.
  • Complete additional tasks assigned by the Manager of the project.


Experience/ Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
  • 2-3 years of experience facilitating trainings.
  • Familiarity with the dynamics of sexual abuse and child abuse reporting requirements in Pennsylvania.
  • Fluent in Spanish in Speech and Writing, preferred.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills; presentation experience helpful.
  • Excellent customer services skills and cultural competence.
  • Ability to complement and provide excellence in a culturally diverse workplace.
  • Works well under pressure and works well independently.
  • Previous experience providing training or education.
  • PC literacy including basic knowledge of MS Office, spreadsheet applications, and database functions. Great organization skills and able to multi-task.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and cultural competence.
  • Maturity, discretion, and professionalism.
  • Empathetic, supportive style of working with clients.
  • Must be willing to work some evenings and weekends, flexible.



Ability to Relocate:

Philadelphia, PA 19124: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Philadelphia, PA 19124



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For questions, please email
 jobs@philachildrensalliance.org