Function: To provide advocacy services to victims of sexual assault while involved in the criminal justice system.
Hours: Full time-40 hours per week, Monday through Friday. Can occasionally include evenings and weekends
Salary: $70,800-$74,000, includes a 5% bilingual differential, if applicable
Status: Non-Exempt
Reports to: Legal Advocacy Manager and/or Legal Advocacy Supervisor
Essential Functions
- Provide support and information to victims of sexual assault who are involved in the Criminal Justice Process
- Assess the needs of the client and provide appropriate referrals and other collateral services
- Assist the client in making informed decisions about police reporting
- Provide ongoing emotional support to clients
- Inform the client of Crime Victims Compensation benefits
- Attend and provide support at interviews/hearings/trials/sentencing that the victim participates in
- Actively monitor the status of the criminal case and keep clients informed of the status of their case
- Communicate effectively with Detectives, Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys and others in the legal system
- Establish an effective and supportive working relationship with a diverse population
- Work with independent initiative and assertiveness
- Provide information and support to victims and parents at Kid’s/Teen Court
- Assist clients with protective orders
- Give information about civil remedies
- Attend Agency meetings and events
- Duties as assigned by Legal Advocacy Manager and/or Legal Advocacy Supervisor
Internal Relationships
- Actively participate in individual supervision
- Attend internal case staffings
- Attend agency meetings
- Assist in training new staff
- Teach sessions to new staff in CORE training as requested
- Provide cross-departmental training as requested
- Work collaboratively across departments
- Consult and interface with other client services staff on specific cases as appropriate
- Other duties as assigned
External Relationships
- Interface with community professionals for the benefit of KCSARC (DCYF, KCPAO, DOC, LE, )
- Participate in professional community groups as needed
- Create and provide training to community groups as prioritized
- Participate in outreach activities as needed
Personal Competencies
- Work as an effective team member within the client services department
- Ability to build rapport quickly with a diverse population
- Ability to multi-task
- Ability to prioritize and organize a caseload
- Communicate emotionally difficult information
- Skillfully empathetic
- Ability to work with independence
- Skillfully assertive
- Ability to work with flexibility
- Ability to work with initiative and assertiveness
- Ability to read, write and speak English
- Accept and practice the established Guiding Principles of KCSARC as a personal work guide
- Accept and practice all established policies and procedures
- Knowledge of sexual assault victimization and the healing process
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent decision making skills
- Excellent professional judgement
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent active listening skills
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and a strong work initiative
- Ability to organize and prioritize competing work demands
Physical-mental-psychological skills
- Ability to interface with the impact of secondary trauma
- Ability to work with individuals in a high stress situation
- Ability to uphold confidentiality
- Ability to work in an environment where schedules and appointments vary and change quickly
- Ability to efficiently travel between Renton and the three different courthouses in Kent and Seattle
Technical Functions
- Ability to use Word, Access based database system, Outlook
- Proficiency in working with multiple video platforms such as zoom, teams, etc.
- Keyboarding skills
- Ability to use a standard telephone and VOIP phone applications
Requirements
Minimum Experience Required:
- 4 year college degree plus 1 year directly related work experience OR
- 2 years college/vocational training plus 3 years related work experience OR
- 6 years directly related work experience
Position Requirements:
- Some Travel Required (travel, workspace etc.)
- Must have current car insurance
- Must have a valid driver’s license
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in providing assistance to victims of sexual assault
- Demonstrated knowledge of the criminal justice system
- Experience working with culturally-diverse populations
- Multi-lingual and Multicultural skills
Summary
Benefits:
- Medical
- Vision and dental coverage (employer paid for employee)
- Short-term & long-term disability
- HSA, HRA, and FSA Options
- (20) Personal Time Off (PTO) days per year, progressively increases
- Up to 10 hours of Wellness time per quarter
- 401(k) retirement Options (up to%5 matching)
- 9 Holidays including Juneteenth and two floating holidays
- Dependent care options