Education & Outreach Program Specialist

Reports to: Education & Community Engagement Director

Expand Casa Fortaleza’s culturally specific education and community-engagement work by developing and facilitating bilingual, trauma-informed programs; strengthening community partnerships; and advancing health-equity-centered approaches to sexual violence prevention. The position will support programming in workplace sexual violence, healthy masculinities, and youth engagement with Spanish-speaking Latino immigrant communities in Central New Mexico.

• Coordinate and facilitate bilingual workshops, presentations, group sessions, and community-based programming.
• Create brave, welcoming spaces for meaningful conversations about complex and sensitive topics.
• Research, develop, adapt, and pilot culturally and linguistically responsive curricula, activities, and educational materials.
• Coordinate outreach events, visibility efforts, partner-site activities, facilitators, and community practitioners.
• Build relationships with schools, colleges, youth programs, agencies, coalitions, and culturally specific community organizations.
• Engage participants and community members in shaping programs so they reflect community knowledge, lived experiences, strengths, and needs.
• Track participation, outcomes, and feedback; support grant documentation, reporting, and program improvement.
• Carry out assigned program areas with increasing autonomy, from planning through implementation and evaluation.
• Support staff, trainings and cross-departmental collaboration.
• Availability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and Saturdays, based on program and community needs.

• Experience in community education, outreach, public health, youth development, social services, prevention, advocacy, or a related field.
• Experience working with Spanish-speaking and/or immigrant communities.
• Ability to facilitate workshops, group conversations, and community education activities.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, coordination, and time-management skills, with the ability to navigate multiple programs and priorities.
• Commitment to trauma-informed, survivor-centered, culturally responsive, and health-equity-centered practices.
• Bilingual Spanish and English.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and appropriate professional boundaries.
• Must complete a NMCSAP 40-hour sexual assault advocacy training.
• Availability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and Saturdays, based on program and community needs.

• Experience developing or adapting bilingual curricula and educational materials.
• Knowledge of sexual violence prevention, healthy relationships, youth engagement, worker justice, or healthy masculinities.
• Experience building community partnerships, coordinating practitioners, or supporting program evaluation.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent relevant professional and community-based experience.

We seek someone grounded in culture and identity who understands how systems of oppression shape the health and safety of BIPOC and immigrant communities. They will approach community education as a shared process—honoring community wisdom, building trust, and turning dialogue into action-with a deep commitment to health equity, public health, and collective well-being.