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Under the direction and general supervision of the Chief of Police or designee, the Victim Services Senior Coordinator provides professional support and assistance to families and victims of violent and other related crimes. As a senior coordinator, provides a high level of outreach, education and support while conducting initial and/or follow-up assessment interviews with victims and witnesses of crimes under the investigation of the Yakima Police Department.

DAWN is seeking a compassionate and experienced Community Lead Advocate to provide trauma-informed, survivor-centered advocacy for individuals impacted by domestic violence across South King County. This leadership role focuses heavily on direct support and community engagement, with minimal administrative duties.

The Sexual Assault Prevention Specialist is responsible for managing and executing Where We Thrive, an individual and relationship level prevention program within Clark County. Where We Thrive supports youth to learn about preventing sexual assault, building healthier relationships, and becoming advocates for themselves and others. This role is integral in maintaining and fostering strong relationships with high schools and community partners, ensuring effective collaboration and impactful prevention efforts. Key responsibilities include launching and implementing a new peer-to-peer component of Where We Thrive, as well as the multi-session curriculum. This role reports to the Director of Prevention.

Hours: 40 hours/week Company Sponsored Time: We are piloting a 4-day, 32-hour work week, and YWCA will provide this role 8 hours of Company Sponsored Time for you to use on Fridays to maintain work-life balance while maintaining pay at 40 hours a week. Pay Range: $25/hour + $1 bilingual differential The LGBTQ+ Supportive Services Generalist provides direct advocacy including safety planning, emotional support, legal advocacy, and referrals to community partners, with an emphasis on serving LGBTQ+ survivors. Working closely with the Director of Community Services and Outreach, this position provides training and support to ensure that advocacy services are inclusive and staff are knowledgeable in providing culturally responsive services to LGBTQ+ survivors. This position is also responsible for coordinating ongoing supportive services, such as domestic violence support groups. There is a strong social justice component to all program positions within YWCA, requiring critical thinking through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty and other forms of oppression. Knowing the core principles of anti-racism and grounding those principles in everyday work are required job skills and core values.

The Children’s Advocate is responsible for developing and implementing services and activities that respond to the unique needs of children, youth and their parent experiencing homelessness due to domestic violence residing at Broadview. Broadview is a DV Shelter and Transitional housing site that is confidential.

The DV Resident Advocate (RA) ensures that there is a staff presence in the building at all times and supports the work of the case manager. The RA assists with promoting the well-being of residents through a team approach of the development of life skills and ensures that residents have the resources and tools needed to become self-sufficient and contributing members of their community.

The Domestic Violence Program Manager is responsible for developing and coordinating services to victims of domestic violence in shelter, transitional housing, and the Broadview’s RRH program. This position provides legal advocacy services, as well as the supervision of the Broadview Domestic Violence RRH Advocate and interns. The Domestic Violence Program Manager is also part of the on-call supervision of team working evenings and weekends. During this time, the position is responsible for determining program staffing levels, providing staff supervision, and responding to emergency personnel including law enforcement, emergency medical providers and the fire department during client and building emergencies.

The Domestic Violence Program Director is responsible for overseeing operations of all services, including supervision of the 24-hour staff team and development and oversight of the department budget. The Director is also part of the on-call team evenings and weekends one to two weeks per month and provides back up support to supervisory on-call staff as needed. On-call coverage includes determining program staffing levels, providing staff supervision, and responding to emergency personnel including law enforcement, emergency medical providers and the fire department during client and building emergencies.