Program Associate, Expanding Deaf Services and Advocacy
Remote
Full Time
Expanding Deaf Services and Advocacy
Mid Level
About Activating Change
Activating Change’s mission is to end victimization, criminalization, incarceration, and institutionalization of people with disabilities and Deaf people. We bring together people and organizations across the country working in disability, survivor advocacy, and criminal legal system reform movements. We foster alignment, build capacity, and support greater coordination across these social justice movements to realize our goals of freedom and healing – not harm and punishment - for people with disabilities and Deaf people. We collaborate with disability and Deaf communities across the country and work in close partnership with government and advocacy leaders to implement change.
Deaf survivors – especially from communities of color – face communication, cultural, and other barriers to accessing hearing victim services that are often insurmountable. “For Deaf, by Deaf” victim services offer a solution for Deaf and DeafBlind survivors of violence, but they don’t exist in most communities and there is only one such program for Deaf communities of color nationwide. Through the newly launched Deaf Survivor Services (DSS) program, Activating Change – in partnership with Deaf leaders from across the country – is establishing a new, national victim services program for Deaf survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking. The program will provide crisis intervention services, case management, and other support to Deaf survivors in American Sign Language by Deaf advocates. Our collective goal is to ensure that any Deaf survivor can access victim services provided by Deaf advocates, in American Sign Language or other languages of Deaf communities, using practices rooted in Deaf culture – regardless of where they live.
The Position
As a Program Associate, you will provide direct support to the Deaf Survivor Services project. Your position will be based in our Expanding Deaf Advocacy Services and Advocacy program area, and you will report to one of our Project Directors in that program. You will conduct best practice research to help inform the design and operation of the DSS; assist in drafting key aspects of the DSS operational plan; coordinate data collection for ongoing improvement efforts and reporting; and provide logistical support to project meetings. You value meetings and the role they play in bringing people together to strengthen relationships, learn, and co-create. You pay attention to details and like to be organized. You are curious and spend time online learning about your latest interests. You are collaborative and excited to support a large group of people across multiple organizations who work on the DSS. Finally, you have a strong commitment to disability and racial justice and center equity in everything you do.
Responsibilities
Provide logistical support to project meetings, including internal team meetings and external meetings with funders, partners, steering committee members, and other constituents, by:
Other
Required
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range for this position is $70,000 - $74,000. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to experience and performance. The salary range listed is just one component of Activating Change's total compensation package for employees. Supporting Activating Change staff—both personally and professionally—is a priority. To do this, we invest in the well-being of our staff through other rewards including merit pay increases, flexible work schedules, generous paid time off, a comprehensive health insurance plan, employer-funded retirement plan, an annual stipend to support healing, education, and development, reimbursements for home internet expenses, stipends for work from home supplies, and tuition reimbursement.
No phone calls or emails, please. You should receive an email confirming we received your application. Due to the high volume of applications received, we are only able to contact applicants who are selected for an interview.
Activating Change is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior record of arrest or conviction, citizenship status, current employment status, or caregiver status.
Activating Change’s mission is to end victimization, criminalization, incarceration, and institutionalization of people with disabilities and Deaf people. We bring together people and organizations across the country working in disability, survivor advocacy, and criminal legal system reform movements. We foster alignment, build capacity, and support greater coordination across these social justice movements to realize our goals of freedom and healing – not harm and punishment - for people with disabilities and Deaf people. We collaborate with disability and Deaf communities across the country and work in close partnership with government and advocacy leaders to implement change.
Deaf survivors – especially from communities of color – face communication, cultural, and other barriers to accessing hearing victim services that are often insurmountable. “For Deaf, by Deaf” victim services offer a solution for Deaf and DeafBlind survivors of violence, but they don’t exist in most communities and there is only one such program for Deaf communities of color nationwide. Through the newly launched Deaf Survivor Services (DSS) program, Activating Change – in partnership with Deaf leaders from across the country – is establishing a new, national victim services program for Deaf survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking. The program will provide crisis intervention services, case management, and other support to Deaf survivors in American Sign Language by Deaf advocates. Our collective goal is to ensure that any Deaf survivor can access victim services provided by Deaf advocates, in American Sign Language or other languages of Deaf communities, using practices rooted in Deaf culture – regardless of where they live.
The Position
As a Program Associate, you will provide direct support to the Deaf Survivor Services project. Your position will be based in our Expanding Deaf Advocacy Services and Advocacy program area, and you will report to one of our Project Directors in that program. You will conduct best practice research to help inform the design and operation of the DSS; assist in drafting key aspects of the DSS operational plan; coordinate data collection for ongoing improvement efforts and reporting; and provide logistical support to project meetings. You value meetings and the role they play in bringing people together to strengthen relationships, learn, and co-create. You pay attention to details and like to be organized. You are curious and spend time online learning about your latest interests. You are collaborative and excited to support a large group of people across multiple organizations who work on the DSS. Finally, you have a strong commitment to disability and racial justice and center equity in everything you do.
Responsibilities
Provide logistical support to project meetings, including internal team meetings and external meetings with funders, partners, steering committee members, and other constituents, by:
- Calendaring meetings.
- Setting up the virtual meeting room.
- Coordinating logistics for in-person meetings.
- Sending materials to meeting attendees in advance.
- Submitting requests in Activating Change’s internal system to request interpreters, captionists, and other accommodation needs.
- Working closely with Activating Change’s interpreter and access coordinators to ensure any accommodation requests of meeting participants are met.
- Taking notes at meetings.
- Sending follow-up materials to meeting participants.
- Identifying and tracking key questions about the design and operation of the DSS that emerge in project meetings and other aspects of the project that require research.
- Conducting research through online searches, document review, and informational interviews.
- Preparing briefing memos, presentations, and other materials documenting key findings.
- Providing presentations to project staff, partners, and other constituents on key findings.
- Documenting key decisions and drafting relevant components of key DSS documents, including program plan, pilot site demonstration design and implementation plan, and the scaling plan.
- Expanding Activating Change’s existing grant reporting database (in Monday.com) to collecting, tracking, and storing data related to the DSS in Activating Change’s grant reporting database.
- Sending reporting reminders to staff and project partners to ensure timely data entry.
- Analyzing and synthesizing data to share with staff and project partners, as well as funders, to understand trends, needed improvements, and impact.
- Drafting funder-required performance reports.
- Drafting broader reports that demonstrate the process and impact of the DSS.
- Serving as the liaison to project partners and others about data entry and reporting.
Other
- Contribute to a culture where staff, partners, and consultants - particularly those who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color with disabilities - can thrive.
- Integrate anti-racist and anti-ableist analyses and practices within the Program Associate position and support them across the organization.
- Foster equity, accessibility, and community care internally and externally. Contributes to the culture and team of Activating Change by participating in team meetings and projects with intentionality to racial, gender and disability justice.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required
- A minimum of four years of work experience in the non-profit sector. Deaf or survivor advocacy field is a plus.
- Fluency in American Sign Language.
- Curious and a quick learner. Previous experience conducting best practice research.
- Excellent communicator, including in writing, and experience giving presentations.
- Strong coordination, organization skills, and attention to detail.
- Strong collaborator who can adapt to a variety of work styles.
- Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills and an ability to apply a racial and disability equity analysis to problems and solutions.
- A deep commitment to disability and racial equity, language justice, and access and inclusion, and a demonstrated ability to use equitable practices in all aspects of the Program Associate position.
- Lived experience as a Deaf person, a person with a disability, and/or a survivor of crime.
- Experience with Microsoft Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint, as well as Zoom and Canva.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range for this position is $70,000 - $74,000. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to experience and performance. The salary range listed is just one component of Activating Change's total compensation package for employees. Supporting Activating Change staff—both personally and professionally—is a priority. To do this, we invest in the well-being of our staff through other rewards including merit pay increases, flexible work schedules, generous paid time off, a comprehensive health insurance plan, employer-funded retirement plan, an annual stipend to support healing, education, and development, reimbursements for home internet expenses, stipends for work from home supplies, and tuition reimbursement.
No phone calls or emails, please. You should receive an email confirming we received your application. Due to the high volume of applications received, we are only able to contact applicants who are selected for an interview.
Activating Change is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior record of arrest or conviction, citizenship status, current employment status, or caregiver status.
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