Community Engagement Director - Streator, United States - Safe Journeys

Description

PURPOSE:

Safe Journeys is seeking a highly collaborative individual that works across all Safe Journeys programs, reporting directly to the Executive Director.

The Community Engagement Director is responsible for educating and engaging our community about the issue of domestic and sexual violence, the prevention of domestic and sexual violence, and Safe Journeys' response and services.

This role builds community awareness and partnerships to ensure broad support for Safe Journeys.

This position supervises the prevention and community educators and is responsible overall for Safe Journeys' volunteer recruitment and management efforts.

Further, the Community Engagement Director supports the Operations Director with fundraising and other donor development efforts.


MISSION STATEMENT:

• To empower survivors of domestic and sexual violence and work to end such violence in our communities._

FUNCTIONS:

• Provides strategic direction, program planning, evaluation, implementation, and oversight of prevention education and volunteer services._
• Responsible for the design, delivery, supervision, and evaluation of communitybased prevention and awareness programs, ensuring they are rooted in equity and inclusion of survivors.
• Coordinates development and implementation of agency prevention plan, consistent with agency and funder requirements.
• Coordinates development and implementation of agency volunteer program, consistent with agency and funder requirements.
• With Operations and Executive Directors, hires, trains, schedules, supervises, and evaluates program staff and volunteers to ensure compliance with laws, agency policies and procedures, and funder requirements.
• With the support of the Operations Director, manages the performance of staff. Provides regular assessments that include performance feedback to staff members and any needed developmental and/or corrective action to improve unacceptable performance.
• Provides guidance and mentorship to program staff. Works with and inspires staff to develop, report, and meet goals and programmatic outcomes.
• Provides prevention education and awareness direct services, as needed.
• Provides volunteer program services, as needed.
• Monitors prevention education and volunteer program to assure compliance with funder requirements, including but not limited to ICADV and ICASA.
• Monitors client and agency records for timeliness and compliance with funder requirements, including but not limited to ICADV and ICASA.
• Evaluates productivity within programs by staff person, volunteers, and funding sources.
• Ensures accurate data and timely documentation for agency and funding source reports and ensures confidentiality of agency information.
• Oversees quality of service design and delivery in accordance with agency philosophy and collaborates with other agency departments to provide a seamless, unified approach to service delivery.
• Enforces agency policies in a client centered, trauma informed manner.
• Collaboratively leads development of community awareness, including planning, evaluation, implementation, and oversight._
• Coordinates development and implementation of agency awareness plan in a collaborative manner with other agency leadership, consistent with agency and funder requirements.
• Responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight of agency communications with the community, including through traditional media, social media, quarterly newsletter, and website. This includes development of a consistent brand identity and development of effective collateral materials, both printed and digital.
• Builds meaningful, strategic, lasting partnerships and collaborations to end domestic and sexual violence within LaSalle and Livingston Counties.
• Grows Safe Journeys' outreach, community presence, engagement, and prevention work.
• Participates in local efforts to improve prevention of domestic and sexual violence.
• Serves as agency delegate or representative on appropriate state and local coalitions.
• Coordinates agency participation in awareness and community events.
• Promotes the agency, as needed, through public presentations, media interviews, written materials, and special events.
• Participates in various community outreach events to network with community service providers and spread awareness of Safe Journeys' programs and services.
• Actively participates in one or more local service clubs, such as Kiwanis, Rotary, Jaycees.
• Collaborates with all agency leadership to provide and enhance community education efforts and establish networks with appropriate referral and partner agencies.
• Monitors and orders public education materials.
• Fundraising and donor development._
• Supports the Operations Director in coordinating development and implementation of fundraising and donor development plan to support planned sustainability and agency growth, consistent with agency and funder requirements.
• Directs and facilitates