The Community Prevention Specialist serves on SARA’s Prevention Team. The Community Prevention Specialist assists with a range of prevention programming, including: (1) Leading the Restaurant Coalition, training restaurant staff, and managing our partnerships with restaurants implementing the On the Fly strategy to interrupt sexual harassment; and (2) Training high school students, teachers, and community organizations, conducting strengths and needs assessments, and establishing coalitions in our priority communities, which may include faith-based communities, neighborhoods, and incarcerated communities. We are looking for a candidate with a strong teamwork mentality. Desired skills include community networking and mobilization, cultural competency, administrative support, long-term planning, strategic thinking, training and teaching, ability to connect with both adult and adolescent learners, marketing to target audiences, and adaptability. This job requires a high level of professionalism, rigor, emotional literacy, and an ability to apply trauma-informed practices and health promotion principles. A background working in restaurants is a strong plus. Fluency in Spanish is extremely preferred. Please send cover letter and resume to prevention@saracville.org by September 20th, 2020.
The mission of the Sexual Assault Resource Agency (SARA) is to eliminate sexual violence and its impact by providing education, advocacy and support to men, women, children, and non-binary people. Our vision is a community free from sexual violence.
We are located in Charlottesville, Virginia, and serve residents of Charlottesville, Albemarle, Nelson, Louisa, Fluvanna and Greene. We serve anyone who has personally experienced, or cares for someone who has experienced any kind of sexual violence, including rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual molestation, incest, sex trafficking, stalking, sexual harassment or unwanted touching.