Senior Victim Advocate; Social Services Specialist III

Senior Victim Advocate (Social Services Specialist III)

Salary

$72,125.46 - $ Annually

Location

PENNINO BUILDING, 12011 GOVERNMENT CENTER PKWY, FAIRFAX (EJ27), VA

Job Type

FT Hourly W BN

Job Number

26-00885

Department

Family Services

Opening Date

06/13/2026

Closing Date

6/26/2026 11:59 PM Eastern

Pay Grade

S25

Posting Type

Open to General Public

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Job Announcement

This position includes a signing bonus of $2,500 (full-time) for new county hires.

This position works as part of the Division of Domestic and Sexual Violence Services (DSVS) provide advocacy services. This is an exciting time to join the DSVS as we recently completed our strategic plan and refreshed our mission, vision, and values to align with the DFS Mission, Vision, and Values and the One Fairfax Policy.

We invite you to learn more about DFS and its Mission, Vision, and Values, by clicking here.

To learn more about One Fairfax, we highly encourage you to watch the Becoming One Fairfax-An Introduction to Key Concepts video by clicking here and visit the One Fairfax webpage here.

This position is a member of Advocacy Services. Under general supervision of the Advocacy Services Supervisor, provides community-based advocacy services.

Specific duties and responsibilities include the following:

* Provides advocacy services to include crisis intervention, emotional support and options counseling, safety planning, education of the civil and criminal justice system, court advocacy and court accompaniment

* Provides onsite advocacy services at the Fairfax Court Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court (JDRDC) and General District Court including intake of client requests, court accompaniment, and coordination with court staff.

* Receives and triages client requests from the main line and other referral sources; resolves by providing advocacy services, information, safety planning, or referrals.

* Collects data and reports on goals and measures around advocacy team services

* Facilitates access to court and legal information for victims of domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking

* Performs short-term case management which entails conducting assessment to include risk assessment, to identify needs of clients and develop a safety and service plan; supporting clients in accessing resources and services; monitoring service plan and documenting all case management activities in the client's record

* Represents DSVS in the coordinated community response to domestic violence, sexual violence, stalking, and human trafficking by participating in various committees, work groups and outreach efforts both locally and regionally

* Serves as liaison and subject matter expert on domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking to include staffing cases

* Provides training and technical assistance for the county and community agencies

* Develops and provides needed court training to DSVS staff and volunteers as it pertains to victims of domestic and sexual violence and stalking

* Assists Lethality Assessment Protocol (LAP) Line follow-up tasks such as reviewing messages and assigning cases to staff

* Works with Advocacy Services Supervisor to assess staff and volunteers training needs and provide or arrange training necessary to develop skills and knowledge of victim advocates and volunteers

* Provides supervisory assistance and leadership in the absence of the Advocacy Services Supervisor, assists with setting up the weekly schedule, and ensures adequate coverage.

* Provides rotational coverage of the program's 24-hour crisis lines and responds to requests for hospital accompaniment

* Performs other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

* Knowledge of principles of interpersonal violence accountability and community resources available to those who perpetrate violence

* Knowledge of the relationship between trauma impact and domestic violence problems

* Knowledge about best practices and domestic violence intervention particularly in safety planning

* Ability to assist other professionals with connecting clients to advocacy services

* Have excellent written, oral, and interpersonal skills

* Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with subordinates, co-workers, county officials, public and private sector organizations, community groups and the general public

* Ability to develop and maintain working relationships with partner agencies includes court services, legal services, law enforcement, shelter, and other service providers in Fairfax County.

* Ability to use automated systems to include any technological tools the County may provide to successfully carry out duties

* Ability to interview, assess needs, counsel, and refer clients to other resources as needed

* Ability to assess safety, risk, and protective capacity

* Possess critical thinking skills, ability to apply critical thinking, knowledge, and research

* Ability to meet deadlines and keep up with documentation

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