Outreach Advocate

3 days ago

Vancouver, Canada Justice for Girls Full time

**Justice for Girls**

**JUSTICE FOR GIRLS IS HIRING**
**POSITION: OUTREACH ADVOCATE**

**Justice for Girls is a Canadian non-profit organization and registered charity that promotes equality, freedom from violence, social and environmental justice, and the health and wellness of teenage girls who live in poverty.**

**Purpose of the position**:Justice for Girls (JFG) is seeking an experienced, passionate, committed and highly qualified advocate to advocate for teenage girls who live in poverty. The objective of this position is to promote teen girls’ access to social, economic, Indigenous and environmental justice. This position reports to and works closely with JFG’s Director of Advocacy/Staff lawyer (DA).

**Key Responsibility Area: Outreach and Advocacy**
- Provide outreach and advocacy to teenage girls in times of crisis, during medical, legal, mental health, or social service procedures, and following incidents of male violence. Outreach may extend to prison, the street, courts, hospitals, community organizations, youth drop-in centers, rape crisis centers, social service offices, mental health facilities, schools, and youth housing resources.
- Design and implement outreach strategies to connect and build rapport with teenage girls in the community, inform them about their rights, identify human rights violations and legal issues, and present advocacy options.
- Implement and adhere to JFG’s advocacy intake policies and procedures.
- Provide information to girls about their rights within criminal/juvenile justice, medical, mental health, school, and child welfare policies and procedures and act to ensure that they receive fair, dignified and lawful treatment throughout these processes.
- Under the supervision of the DA, act as an advocate for girls when they are responding to violence, which may include advocacy in relation to their families, police, social workers, foster parents, court and corrections officials, medical and mental health professionals, and social service providers.
- Assist teen girls in securing safe and affordable housing, financial assistance, adequate child care, access to education, and access to healthcare services.
- Under the supervision of the DA, assist teen girls with complaints, such as police complaints and human rights complaints.
- Under the supervision of the DA and in collaboration with the JFG Communications team, prepare educational materials with respect to girls’ human & equality rights within the systems that affect their daily lives including the child welfare, education, criminal justice, and healthcare systems.
- Know and maintain strict adherence to JFG’s confidentiality and other HR policies.
- Other advocacy or outreach activities as deemed necessary or as directed.

**Key Responsibility Area: Systemic Advocacy**
- Participate in a variety of systemic advocacy strategies that promote the equality and human rights of teen girls in poverty. Such strategies include but are not limited to: public education, coalition building, consultation with policy makers, community/participatory action research, media strategies, and organizing direct action.

**Key Responsibility Area: Referrals**
- Develop and maintain a current knowledge of services and resources for teenage girls who live in poverty.
- Refer girls to JFG programs and JFG approved referrals including: lawyers; community services alcohol and drug programs; school programs; social, environmental and Indigenous justice organizations; counselors; employment programs; health/medical services; sexual assault services; housing, etc.

**Key Responsibility Area: Community Development**
- Develop relationships/partnerships with workers from community and equality-seeking organizations, especially rape crisis centers, youth outreach organizations, Indigenous and Women’s groups, anti-poverty and anti-racist organizations.
- Assist other community services in advocating for teenage girls.
- Represent JFG at relevant community meetings.

**Key Responsibility Area: Record Keeping**
- Ensure that records in relation to individual advocacy cases are up to date and adhere to JFG’s policies, including filing systems, confidentiality and file documentation procedures and standards.
- Maintain semi-monthly time sheets and prepare petty cash expense sheets.
- Learn the software, communication programs, and filing system and ensure proper usage when saving administrative files.

**Key Responsibility Area: Confidentiality, Professional Development & Work Environment**
- Know and maintain strict adherence to JFG’s confidentiality and other HR policies.
- Participate in the collective upkeep, cleanliness, and health of JFG workspaces.
- Undertake training and skill development activities that support growth in this position as per goals set annually on performance reviews

**Required Qualifications**
- **Highly motivated by social and environmental justice**, particularly Indigenous rights, girls and women’s

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