Anti-Trafficking Services Outreach Specialist
About The Position
For over 10 years, Preble Street has been a leader in the anti-trafficking movement in Maine. Working with a network of partners to promote individual and systemic justice, Preble Street’s Anti-Trafficking Services (ATS) provides survivor-centered services toward healing, growth, and self-sufficiency to people who have been trafficked and forced into commercial sex work, domestic services, agricultural work, restaurant work, or other labor. Preble Street is seeking a full-time Outreach Specialist to work with the ATS team to provide intensive case management, housing-related services, and targeted outreach activities with migrant farmworkers, seafood laborers, and other communities to identify victim/survivors of trafficking. While facilitating access to other supportive services to ensure basic needs are met, Outreach Specialists also provide crisis intervention and support; participate in program coverage; collaborate with community partners to provide a survivor-centered continuum of care; document and report services provided; and work collaboratively with the ATS team toward offering high-quality services and meeting program objectives. This is a full-time position with a schedule of Monday – Friday, 8:00am – 4:30pm with occasional evening and weekend hours as required.
Requirements
- a combination of education or study in social work or related field and relevant experience working with trafficking survivors or similar populations, OR comparable combination of education and lived experience
- Frequent, statewide travel is required for this position. Candidates must have access to reliable transportation for daily, regional travel.
- understanding of and commitment to low-barrier service provision, Housing First principles, harm reduction, and empowerment approaches, and issues related to human trafficking survivors and other experiences of trauma
- understanding of systemic racism, oppression, social and economic justice
- positive regard for individuals fleeing violence, experiencing homelessness, poverty, engaging in commercial sex, and other complex situations
- effective crisis intervention skills
- the ability to maintain professional boundaries
- collaborative work style
- computer skills
- strong written and verbal communication skills
Nice To Haves
- Bi/multi-lingual skills
Responsibilities
- provide intensive case management
- housing-related services
- targeted outreach activities with migrant farmworkers, seafood laborers, and other communities to identify victim/survivors of trafficking
- facilitating access to other supportive services to ensure basic needs are met
- provide crisis intervention and support
- participate in program coverage
- collaborate with community partners to provide a survivor-centered continuum of care
- document and report services provided
- work collaboratively with the ATS team toward offering high-quality services and meeting program objectives
Benefits
- Generous paid time off, insurance, and retirement plan benefits including:
- 4 weeks (160 hours, accrued) vacation time
- 12 days (96 hours, accrued) sick time
- 32 hours personal time
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Health insurance w/ 100% employer-paid option
- Dental insurance w/ 100% employer-paid option
- Vision insurance
- Employer-paid Life, STD, and LTD insurance
- 403(b) retirement plan w/ employer match
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
