SRAE Facilitator

The Encore seeks an engaging, dependable SRAE Facilitator to deliver its federally funded Sexual Risk Avoidance Education program to youth ages 10–19 in Houston and Harris County. The Facilitator will provide high-quality, interactive instruction in schools, churches, juvenile detention centers, and community-based settings while maintaining curriculum fidelity, fostering a safe learning environment, and completing required attendance, surveys, referrals, and program documentation.

The successful candidate will use a Positive Youth Development approach and deliver education that is medically accurate, age-appropriate, culturally and linguistically appropriate, trauma-informed, and aligned with approved program plans and curricula. This role requires strong facilitation, youth engagement, classroom-management, communication, and recordkeeping skills.

The program helps young people voluntarily avoid non-marital sexual activity and related risk behaviors while strengthening personal responsibility, self-regulation, healthy decision-making, goal setting, healthy relationships, resistance to coercion and dating violence, and a positive focus on the future.

• Deliver the approved SRAE curriculum to youth ages 10–19 in schools, churches, juvenile detention centers, community organizations, and other approved service locations.

• Prepare for each session by reviewing lesson plans, organizing authorized materials, coordinating

  technology, and confirming site logistics.

• Use interactive, youth-centered facilitation methods that encourage participation, reflection,

  healthy decision-making, and positive future orientation.

• Maintain a consistent delivery schedule and communicate promptly about absences, delays, site

  issues, or needed support.

• Provide respectful, professional, and culturally responsive instruction to participants with varied

  backgrounds and learning needs.

• Deliver only the approved curriculum and authorized materials with fidelity to required sequence, timing, and content.

• Follow program requirements related to participant eligibility, attendance, consent, confidentiality, surveys, referrals, and record retention.

• Complete attendance records, fidelity logs, session notes, incident documentation, timesheets, and other required forms accurately and on time.

• Participate in monitoring visits, observations, coaching, corrective actions, and quality-

  improvement activities.

• Explain program content clearly and accurately, including healthy relationships, goal setting, self-regulation, healthy decision-making, sexual coercion, dating violence, and related youth risk behaviors.

• Establish and reinforce classroom agreements that promote safety, respect, inclusion, and constructive participation.

• Use age-appropriate classroom-management strategies and respond calmly to disruptions, sensitive questions, and differing levels of readiness.

• Avoid providing medical advice or counseling; follow approved protocols for questions, disclosures, referrals, and safety concerns.

• Immediately elevate suspected abuse, threats, emergencies, or other youth-safety concerns according to organizational policy and applicable law.

• Complete required onboarding, curriculum training, certification, background screening, and ongoing professional development.

• Attend team meetings, supervision sessions, debriefs, and coaching meetings as scheduled.

• Apply feedback from observations and data reviews to strengthen instructional quality and curriculum fidelity.

• Coordinate with the Project Manager, fellow facilitators, data…