Community Engagement and Task Force Facilitator

Community Prevention and Task Force Facilitator

Organization

Our Rescue’s mission is to end sex trafficking and child exploitation while empowering survivors to reclaim their lives and thrive on their healing journey. We partner in this fight with service agencies, law enforcement, governments, and supporters who share our vision of a world free from sex trafficking.

We work with law enforcement agencies globally to identify, arrest, and prosecute traffickers and provide comprehensive care for our survivors. We educate and advocate for public involvement in our mission. Our Rescue is a global collective, boldly fighting to eradicate sex trafficking and child exploitation: Until every person is safe.

Our Rescue Community Prevention

Our Rescue has an exciting opportunity to create and strengthen anti-trafficking systems in communities. The Our Rescue community prevention model serves as nexus across prevention audiences and efforts to empower communities to reduce vulnerability and build resilience through collaboration, coordination, awareness raising, and support for survivors.

Our Rescue will work with communities to develop tailored prevention efforts, which will include a Community Prevention Toolkit that contains the templates and guidance for the various tools. Organizations and communities will work in conjunction with Our Rescue to apply Toolkit content within a specific community.

Description

The Community Prevention Facilitator will play an integral role in engaging and cultivating anti-trafficking systems in communities. This is a part-time contracted position working a maximum of 20 hours per month. This position will be under general direction from the Vice President of Community Impact, with wide latitude for initiative and judgment, the preferred candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Liaising among and developing relationships with various law enforcement agencies, service providers, unique voices (e.g., survivors and vulnerable groups or persons), community leaders, and prosecutors’ offices to eventually participate in a community-level anti-trafficking task force;

• Developing governance documents (e.g., Terms of Reference or Scope of Work) that work for and reflect the nature of the Task Force’s operations.

• Implementing a community needs assessment and co-developing a capacity strengthening plan with the Vice President of Community Impact.

• Designing, organizing, and facilitating Taskforce meetings.

• Developing relevant task force and community protocols.

• Sharing information about community needs and coordinating to get those needs covered with Our Rescue, as needed.

• Providing training and outreach on various Human Trafficking topics, particularly around Task Force management and governance.

• Any other duties, as assigned.

Qualifications

• A bachelor degree, from an accredited college or university and seven years of community engagement experience or a master degree and five years of community engagement experience.

• Experience working with survivors of human trafficking.

• Experience working with law enforcement, other government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

• Experience analyzing qualitative and quantitative data on human trafficking.

• Strong experience with and appreciation for project management and multi-disciplinary collaboration.

• Strong organizational, analytical, proofreading, and writing skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Forms.

• Ability to problem solve, while balancing competing priorities, complex situations, and tight deadlines.

• Ability to work independently, as well as collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, externally and internally.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading and/or participating in community-prevention models.

• Experience leading and/or participating in anti-trafficking task forces.