Victim of Crime Advocate - South

Location: Airway Heights

Summary of Functions:

Serves as a Victim of Crime Advocate within the Kalispel Tribe Victim Assistance Services Program. The VOC Advocate will support, empower, and educate victims of a crime and provide outreach services in accessing VOC services. The Advocate will identify victim and survivor barriers, enhance safety, clarify, and increase awareness, and provide options to obtain resources. Advocates will also support independent decision-making based on the unique needs and circumstances of the victim.

The Advocate will be a supportive liaison and assist individuals and families to obtain protection and needed services that are respectful of cultural and community characteristics.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct Needs Assessments for VOC victims to identify barriers and strategies to enhance safety, including safety planning.

• Clarify and increase awareness of the power and control associated with victimization and provide options to help victims obtain resources, including emergency assistance based on their unique needs and circumstances.

• Protects and promotes safety for all victims/survivors and their dependent children while building on the strengths and resources of individuals and families.

• Be supportive and offer options to victims to meet individual needs.

• Makes contacts and fosters collaborative working relationships and cooperation among local, regional, and Tribal agencies.

• Establish a stakeholder's working group that includes landlords, housing providers, American Indian Tribes, and other VOC service providers within our region.

• Provide mobile advocacy and conduct site visits to individual agencies.

• Arrange and conduct quarterly stakeholder meetings.

• Establish a VOC Advisory Board and Grievance Board consistent with
project requirements.

• Organizes and maintains accurate and consistent recording, complying with applicants, participants, and program VOC advocacy requirements and files.

• Researches and assists in development and implementation of Tribal specific
VOC - Victim Assistance Services Program policies, procedures, and protocols.

• General office operations including answering phones, scheduling appointments, inputting data into the electronic data management system, drafting correspondence, and preparing reports and evaluations as requested.

• Must always maintain and enforce strict confidentiality requirements, including but not limited to personally identifying information, confidential communications, reports, records, and all other documentation maintained by Advocate.

• Conducts VOC education and outreach activities.

• Transport victims to appointments if necessary.

• Coordinates community VOC training activities.

• Attend training as needed/required.

• Assist in finding Housing/Shelter for Victims

• Mobile advocacy

• Immediate 24/7 Crisis Intervention in addition to 24/7 On-Call Crisis Phone

• Supportive accompaniment including but not limited to:
Court hearings, filing legal court documents
SANE exams, forensic interviews, reporting to law enforcement, medical exams, strangulation
assessments Etc.

• Assist with grant writing to ensure funding for KTVAS programs, including narrative, responses,
providing resumes and other professional documents Etc.

• Additional duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education

• AA Degree in Social Services, Criminal Justice, or work-related field required.

Experience

• A minimum of 3 years of VOC advocacy core training or work-related experience is required.

• A minimum of 3 years of general office and budget analysis experience is required.

Skills

• Good organizational skills are required.

• Must have working knowledge and practice of strict confidentiality relative to victim communication, personally identifying information, and all other victim confidentiality information, including, but not limited to, confidential records, communications, and reporting requirements.

• This position requires the ability to interact and work well with the public.

• This position requires the ability to work independently with very little supervision.

• Must have a good understanding of…