Job Description
School Safety (Seattle/CD) Community Violence Interrupter (until 12/31/2025)
The Community Violence Interrupter will be assigned to schools to build trust and foster relationships with students, families, and community members. They mediate conflicts, work to prevent incidents, and provide a safe space for students to turn to when needed. Their presence helps create a sense of security and support, especially in situations where conflict might arise. Reporting to the Deputy Director of Outreach.
Essential Responsibilities
- Adhere to strict and unified protocols.
- Be on call for Critical Incident notification and deployment to incidents including community locations and hospitals with specific protocols.
- Provide Critical Incident assessment and Violence Interruption on-site.
- Participate in rigorous team pre-briefs to plan for safe and protocol-driven deployments
- Review and refine the protocol
- Develop team plan for specific hotspot remediation
- Confirm coverage and staffing plan
- Participate in team debriefs follow-up to engage and support youth/young adults directly impacted by violence
- Participate in weekly hot spot remediation efforts in partnership with Outreach Workers
- Keep track of youth engaged so that Managers/Leads can refer the youth into the suite of services
- Participate as an integral member of a multiple-team communication strategy
- Attend weekly supervision meetings to review workload, highlight successes, and find solutions to challenges
- Attend mandatory team meetings to go over protocols, hot-spot remediation, and social network analysis of youth engaged or involved in new incidents
- Provide and maintain records for data and tracking reports
- Attend all required training and professional development opportunities
- Maintain confidentiality as per agency guidelines
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- A clear criminal background check is required for all positions within our school district or working directly with youth/minors.
- While on the job in the community providing services, you will be in uniform (shirts, hoodies, badges, walkie-talkies, etc.).
- While on duty, you will be on call for potential incidences of violence including hospital support, vigils, funerals, and community events, including on evenings and weekends.
- Ability to walk long distances at a time with up to 30lbs of equipment.
Preferred Experience Or Skills
- Experience with de-escalation, mediation, and harm-reduction efforts is required.
- Experience and/or expertise in violence prevention and intervention, or trauma-informed support services among high-risk populations is required.
- Lived experience of the impact of gun violence
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to safeguard and maintain individual records to keep participant files complete, confidential, and in order.
- Basic knowledge for Microsoft 365
- Reliable Transportation
Preferred Competencies
- Commit to understand deeply and seek to dismantle the systems of oppression impacting communities of color
- Value the intrinsic worth of young people and their unlimited potential
- Maintain a restorative justice orientation in relationship to staff, partners and participants
- Be a self-aware, engaged and adaptable team player
- Take ownership of projects, be self-motivated, and practice independent problem solving
- Be flexible about changing priorities and manage competing deadlines
Benefits
- Flexible schedule
- 401k
- Aetna Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Voluntary Insurance
- 100k employer paid life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Discount Program
- Fin Fit- Financial literacy services
- Metlife Legal Plans
- Generous PTO
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Job Tags
Temporary work, Long distance, Flexible hours, Afternoon shift,