Career Center

• Crisis response and clinical risk assessment, including suicidal and homicidal risk assessment
• Advocacy, accompaniment, and referral services to victims, including faculty, staff, and students, of all forms of campus violence, including, but not limited to, sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking, sexual harassment, theft, and robbery.
• The position will assist with personal, legal, academic, medical, Title IX, and other types of advocacy as needed to bring UNCG and community resources to bear in order to maximize retention and success.
• The position will support and advise student victims throughout the various stages of reporting and adjudicating student complaints and will support faculty and staff throughout the various stages of reporting and adjudicating faculty/staff complaints
• Refer victims to appropriate ongoing support and counseling services
• Maintain proactive outreach and follow up with victims
• Work collaboratively with campus, community, and statewide groups to better coordinate efforts to support victims
• Facilitate support groups
• Keep abreast of federal and state laws relating to campus safety
• Identify and utilize best practices
• Manage documentation and database of advocacies cases
• Provide support and information to secondary victims including family members, loved ones, friends, and roommates, consistent with state and federal laws
• Assist in the implementation and evaluation of campus-wide crime as well as consultation to faculty and staff prevention and awareness programming consistent with evidence-based practices
• Collaborate, conduct, and coordinate training for students, faculty, and staff through direct presentations and collaboration with those conducted by other departments on campus including the Counseling Center, UNCG Police Department, Title IX, Housing and Residence Life, Student Success, Dean of Students office and other academic departments, particularly as it relates to the development of appropriate training and delivery of that training
• Contribute to the overall mission and work of the Campus Violence Response Center in both victim response and education
• Collaborate on-campus projects and serve on university committees
• Promote the visibility of services throughout the campus community
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualification 

• Master’s degree from an appropriately accredited institution
• 3-5 years of experience in crisis or advocacy work
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and respond to nuanced situations in a critically reflective manner, evaluate needs, and provide assistance with objectivity impartiality
• Demonstrated ability to listen, empathize, provide information, empower victims, create a safety plan, and act as a liaison between the victim and other providers
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with diverse students, faculty, and staff, and to work effectively and collaboratively with other University offices such as: Title IX, Dean of Students, Human Resources, Law Enforcement, UNCG Counseling Center.
• Demonstrated proficiency in and a commitment to multicultural competence and experience working with individuals from culturally diverse populations, as well as underrepresented and/or underserved populations.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills, including effective oral and written communication skills
• Must be able to act independently and to balance advocating for multiple clients, responding to crisis and walk-in traffic, and developing and delivering programs for the university community
• Must demonstrate a strong understanding of best practices relating to duties of the position and the ability to independently make sound decisions based on best practices, laws, policies, and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a college/university setting
• Experience/Expertise in working with communities of color, marginalized communities, and/or issues of intersectionality, power, privilege, and oppression.
• Experience working with law enforcement and court settings