Family Advocacy Program Coordinator

We are looking for someone who wants to join our team near Livorno, Italy.

Job Opportunity: Family Advocacy Program Prevention Education Coordinator

Location: Army Community Service, U. S. Army Garrison Italy, Camp Darby, near Livorno, Italy

• Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours per week, 0800 to 1700, Monday through Friday
• Make a Difference Behind the Mission

Can you stand in front of a company formation, a room of new parents, and a middle school classroom in the same week and hold the attention of all three groups?

The Family Advocacy Program at Camp Darby works to prevent child abuse and domestic violence in a garrison community living far from home.

Prevention here happens in classrooms and at information tables, long before anyone calls the Military Police.

French Consulting is hiring a Family Advocacy Program Prevention Education Coordinator for Army Community Service at Camp Darby.

You will teach the classes, brief the units, run the awareness campaigns, and keep the records that show the community was reached.

This is an education and coordination role.

You will not provide clinical counseling.

What You'll Do

• Teach and Brief
• Teach Family Advocacy Program classes on family violence prevention and awareness, stress and anger management, parenting, couple communication, relationship safety, and program overviews, including individual sessions for walk-in clients scheduled within 24 working hours of the request.
• Deliver professional briefings to community organizations on child abuse, teen dating violence, child sexual abuse, and positive parenting.
• Train Child and Youth Services staff and Camp Darby Elementary and Middle School staff at least twice each year for each organization.
• Assist the Family Advocacy Program staff with annual troop briefings for every unit and command team in the garrison footprint.
• Coordinate with the Army Community Service team to schedule annual training for everyone who works with children, including the local schools and law enforcement.
• Reach the Community
• Plan and staff Family Advocacy Program special events, information tables, and community outreach activities.
• Run the Child Abuse Prevention, Teen Dating Violence Awareness, and Domestic Violence Awareness Month campaigns through community meetings and public education.
• Publicize the program across every approved garrison channel, including the Army Community Service social media pages, American Forces Network radio and television spots, the community newspaper, chapels, schools, Family Readiness Groups, and bulletin boards.
• Produce flyers, posters, and banners, and submit them for approval on the program manager schedule, which runs up to 120 days ahead of a class.
• Track and Report
• Enter all client contact data into the Client Tracking System weekly so the monthly Army Community Service management report closes on time.
• Maintain the training log and the certificates of completion, and track annual training so it never lapses.
• Maintain the garrison unit database, update it monthly as commands change, and invite every newly assigned commander and senior leader to their annual briefing.
• Prepare the monthly memoranda summarizing training, outreach, marketing, and data entry for the Contracting Officer Representative and the Family Advocacy Program Manager.
• Schedule and support the Family Advocacy Committee and the Fatality Review Committee, prepare agendas, reserve venues, take notes, and turn meeting minutes in within five working days.
• Coordinate education referrals with the program manager and the Medical Treatment Facility clinic, and keep the contact log.
• Report What You Are Required to Report
• Serve as a mandated reporter of child abuse, child neglect, domestic violence, and intimate partner violence.

You will report to law enforcement, the Family Advocacy Program Manager, Social Work Services case managers, and the medical treatment facility within one hour of learning of an incident, followed by a written report within 24 hours.

• Safeguard the confidentiality of all personal information you handle. Release decisions belong to the program manager and the Army Community Service Director.

Who You Are

• You are comfortable teaching adults who did not choose to be in the room, which is most of what an annual troop briefing looks like.
• You keep your own calendar and your own records without being chased for them, because the reporting on this role is monthly and unforgiving.
• You know military protocol well enough to work with officers, noncommissioned officers, and civilians without friction, and you are steady when a class turns into a disclosure.

Qualifications

• Required
• Bachelor degree from an accredited university in social or behavioral health science, psychology, counseling, social work, social or behavioral health education, or community or public health.

You will need to provide college transcripts.

• A minimum of one year of experience in each of these three areas: family and children services and advocacy, organization of community programs, and family violence prevention.
• Ability to read, write, and speak English fluently at a proficiency equivalent to Level 3 or higher under the U. S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute scale.
• Teaching and training skills, interviewing and assessment skills, and the ability to develop and run child abuse and domestic violence prevention programs.
• Ability to present information clearly in person and in writing, including marketing material.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and with secure web-based systems.
• Ability to pass and maintain a Childcare National Agency Check and Inquiries and a local Installation Records Check with no derogatory information involving spouse or child abuse, and to obtain a Common Access Card, installation access, and accreditation through the Department of Defense Contractor Personnel Office.
• Preferred
• Experience working in Family Advocacy Program related programs, and knowledge of how the program delivers prevention services under Army Regulation 608-18.
• Experience living or working in a military community, and crisis intervention experience.
• Working knowledge of Italian.
• Why You'll Love It Here
• You will live and work on the Tuscan coast near Livorno, on a garrison small enough that your work is visible.
• A small Army Community Service team where the prevention educator is a named part of the program, not an extra pair of hands.
• Ongoing professional development, including the Army training that keeps your prevention credentials current.

This position is not eligible for support under the NATO Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) supplemental agreement articles 72 or 73

French Consulting is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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