SAFE ALLIANCE - COURTHOUSE NAVIGATOR
Company: Ascend Nonprofit Solutions
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: October 31, 2024
Job Description:
Essential Duties and ResponsibilitiesSupport the agency mission
by providing hope and healing to those impacted by domestic
violence, sexual assault, and child maltreatment by:
- Using a trauma-informed, client-centered approach to:
- Provide intake, assessment, case management, crisis
intervention, safety planning, court education, information, and
referrals.
- Provide in person, courtroom support, accompaniment to
survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and child
maltreatment.
- Ensure coordinated client care by working with key community
partners, including courthouse personnel.
- Provide outreach throughout the courthouse to enhance access to
community resources and to provide support to survivors navigating
court.
- Act with client in mind and work to meet client's needs and
expectations to the extent possible.
- Administration
- Track and monitor specific court outcomes that may be used to
better understand issues survivors face within the court system and
to collaborate with community partners to understand and improve
these outcomes.
- Maintain confidential and accurate, up to date client,
stakeholder, intern, and volunteer records, program and agency
records in agency databases including CSN, Raiser's Edge and
Timeforce.
- Research, write, and manage grant reporting and grantor
relationships as assigned by supervisor.
- Adhere to agency and program procedures concerning
documentation, Critical Incident Reports, and Client Satisfaction
Surveys, and participate in the Quality Assurance process.
- Stewardship
- Increase awareness of victimization, prevention, and available
resources through public speaking and media requests as assigned by
supervisor.
- Participate in community meetings and committees as assigned by
supervisor.
- Promote and maintain professional relationships with agency
staff, volunteers, interns, stakeholders, and community
partners.
- Facilitate pro bono representation through training and support
as needed.
- Professional Development
- Contribute to quality of services by staying informed of best
practices, developments and trends in the area of trauma and
victimization, especially as it relates to intimate partner
violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment.
- Maintain and develop skills and knowledge by attending training
and ensure licensure and certifications are up to date as needed
for the job.
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- Contribute to agency effectiveness by performing other duties
as assigned.
- Core Competencies
- Demonstrate all agency competencies.
- Demonstrate the position agency competencies:
- Action Oriented/Planning and Organizing
- Decision Making/Problem Solving
- Formal Presentation
- Initiative
- Teamwork
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and SkillsEducation and/or
Work Experience Requirements
- Requirements: High School Diploma, GED, or Equivalent
Experience
- Preferences: Experience working with victims or experience in
human services.
- Language: Spanish-speaking preferredPhysical Requirements
- Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally
and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly lift,
twist, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the
human body.
- Ability for close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth
perception, and ability to adjust focus to perform an activity to
determine accuracy and thoroughness of work assignment.
- Ability to reach, stand, crouch, walk, and finger, grasp, sit,
twist, talk, hear, and perform repeated motions.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals
with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Employee must have access to transportation that allows them to
meet all job requirements in a timely fashion. Position may require
staff to work outside of the typical work hours as the agency
provides services 24/7.
Keywords: Ascend Nonprofit Solutions, Charlotte , SAFE ALLIANCE - COURTHOUSE NAVIGATOR, Other , Charlotte, North Carolina
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