Job Opening in Brooklyn, NY

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The Center for Anti-Violence Education, Inc.

Full-time Position Available

"Community Education Coordinator"

The Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE) is a multi-racial, intergenerational, community-based, nonprofit organization that develops and implements violence-prevention programs. CAE’s holistic programs help women, teen women, children, and other communities especially affected by violence build skills, heal from past abuse, and organize to counter the destructiveness of violence. A feminist, women-led organization, CAE brings a commitment to fighting racism and heterosexism to all its activities. CAE was founded in 1974 as Brooklyn Women’s Martial Arts and changed its name in 1991 to better reflect the range of its work. CAE has a full-time staff of 7 and a budget of $560,000.

CAE’s Community Violence Prevention Project (CVPP) offers violence-prevention workshops and courses in shelters, classrooms, senior centers, unions, workplaces, and churches throughout New York City. CVPP helps individuals strengthen their spirits and empower themselves with violence-prevention and safety skills and information. CVPP is unique as a violence-prevention program because it combines practical safety information with a feminist, anti-racist, anti-oppression analysis of violence. CVPP empowers individuals and communities to protect themselves, to speak out, and to challenge violence whenever possible. Workshops and courses are tailored to meet the specific needs of the community. CVPP reached 836 people during 2002-2003.

CVPP also offers consulting services and technical assistance to other organizations—including curricula development and staff training and development. CVPP also created a new dimension to its services—a safety assessment of an organization’s offices or facility, with recommendations to increase the safety of your staff and clients.

Position
CAE seeks to hire an energetic, skilled, and committed Community Education Coordinator to market, administer, and teach in the Community Violence Prevention Project (CVPP).

Responsibilities
-Market and outreach to nonprofit organizations, schools, youth agencies, and corporations, offering CVPP workshops and courses
-Develop and maintain relationships with other organizations/agencies/schools
-Negotiate contracts with partnering organizations, including scheduling and setting fees
-Monitor contracts, including invoicing and securing payments
-Teach workshops and courses to other organizations/agencies
-Develop curricula and tailor, as necessary, to meet the specific needs of the community
-Coordinate teaching schedules for CVPP workshops and courses, including scheduling teachers, assistant teachers, apprentice teachers, and Peer Educators
-Provide feedback and support to assistant teachers, apprentice teachers, and Peer Educators
-Provide other services as requested, such as Safety Assessments or technical assistance (program development and/or staff training)
-Evaluate, with supervisor, the Community Violence Prevention Project
-Attend teacher meetings and staff meetings
-Administer CVPP, including maintaining organizational database and filing systems
-Represent CAE and CVPP at conferences, forums, and community events
-Engage with supervisor in long-term program planning


Qualifications

-Minimum of 2 years experience teaching self-defense.
-Experience working with children, teens, and adult women.
-Understanding of violence against women and other communities at-risk of violence.
-Commitment to social justice and CAE’s mission and goals.
-Strong marketing and outreach skills
-Strong public speaking and communication skills.
-Strong writing and editing skills.
-Experience negotiating contracts, including invoicing and securing payments.
-Computer literacy with word processing, spreadsheets, and databases.
-Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
-Disciplined self-starter, collaborative team player.
-Ability to work well with people of diverse backgrounds.

Salary & Benefits
-Salary commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits include four weeks vacation, employer-sponsored health and dental insurance, and pension plan.

How to Apply

Send cover letter and resume to:

Judith Long, Deputy Director

The Center for Anti-Violence Education

421 Fifth Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11215

email: jlong@cae-bklyn.org

fax: 718-499-2284

CAE is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse, multicultural work environment.

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