This position reports to the Departmental Director of The Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education in the Office of Student Affairs. The position is an annual renewable 80% F.T.E. Professional & Academic Appointment; subject to annual performance evaluation.

Primary Responsibilities (include, but are not limited to, the following):

Grant Writing, Administration and Management (25%)

• Responsible for coordinating and writing federal and foundation grant proposals
• With Director, plan for programming that can be funded through federal dollars
• Coordinate and write External Memoranda of Agreement with community partners including: The Tubman Family Alliance, The Hennepin County District Attorneys Office, The Ramsey County District Attorneys Office, The Minnesota Dept. of Health, The Sexual Violence Center and The Domestic Abuse Project
• Serve as principal grant writer, fulfilling all requirements and special conditions of funding agencies
• Work with SPA to navigate the proposal submission process through EGMS
• Serve as Principal Investigator and Project Director for grant from the Department of Justice whose projects include the development and maintenance of a legal advocacy program, creating and implementing a research-based violence prevention program, improving services for and outreach to underserved populations, and increasing outreach to faculty and staff.
• Manage budget for grant-funded projects
• Approve and track spending for $1.06 million in federal grant monies
• Responsible for securing Grant Adjustment Notices when necessary
• Responsible for all reporting requirements for federal grants
• Collect information on grant projects, process and progress
• Write progress report and submit using GMS
• Respond to requests from Congress and other governmental bodies for information on grant projects and progress
• Develop and supervise community partnerships 
• Create and manage project collaborations with community agencies such as MNCASA, Tubman, and The Domestic Abuse Project
• Develop and manage collegial working relationships with government agencies such as District Attorneys Offices in Hennepin and Ramsey County and the Minnesota Dept. of Health
• Serve as primary contact for all other grant related work, including:
  • Work with SPA to coordinate budget changes and requests for programming changes
  • Respond to requests from other universities for information on TAC's grant-sponsored programming
  • Serve as consultant to other universities regarding grant writing, management, and programming

Outreach, Education and Curriculum Development (30%)

• Supervise development of TAC educational presentations and trainings
• Supervise Violence Prevention Educator
• Develop curriculum for presentations by TAC's violence prevention educators
• Stay current on violence against women, violence prevention, and peer education literatures in order to integrate best practices in TAC educational programming
• Responsible for conducting volunteer recruitment and training
• Plan and coordinate training including the selection of additional resource trainers, the training site, and training content.
• Design curriculum for 40 hour training
• Facilitate training for advocates and, with Violence Prevention Education Coordinator, co-facilitate training for peer educators
• Plan and Co-facilitate Special Projects Volunteer training and Men Against Gender Violence orientation
• Facilitate Aurora information sessions
• Develop and conduct trainings for faculty, staff and students (such as for: Disability Services, all student athletes, and the Departments of Physical Therapy, Social Work, Psychology, Women's Studies and Sociology)
• Be flexible to accommodate requests for educational presentations, attend special events (day, evening, weekends)
• Develop and conduct presentations for national conferences based on work at TAC in the areas of violence against women with disabilities, violence prevention, creating a course for credit, evaluating prevention programs, and other topics as appropriate
• Creatively design and carry out presentations that reflect a diversified approach and sensitivity towards meeting the unique needs of victimized populations; address societal influences and how all forms of oppression are perpetuated in our culture.
• Work with the Career and Community Learning Center to track and support students seeking the Public Engagement Certificate
• Work with director to develop new partnerships within the university
• Manage internal collaborative work with: the Fairview University Emergency Room, Disability Services, the Institute on Community Integration, the Rape Aggression Defense program (Rec Sports), University Athletics
• Represent TAC on appropriate University and Community committees

Program Development (15%)

• Manage and review the Coordinated Community Response and the Sexual Assault Response Protocol
• Serve as contact regarding related University Policies
• Work with director and other staff to design, develop and implement best-practices programming
• Partner with other university offices in an effort to reduce violence against women and other oppression on campus
• Use recent research to develop models of service delivery that reflect best practices
• Manage programs and projects are under the purview of the Associate Director
• Review, improve, and develop informational brochures

Program Evaluation (10%)

• Responsible for all program and evaluation and collection of performance indicators
• Client demographics: Develop and maintain database to track variables needed for decision making and annual report; develop client intake form
• Client satisfaction: Create satisfaction survey and maintain database
• Leadership development: Develop and annual survey to track the leadership accomplishments and development of volunteers.
• Training effectiveness/Volunteer competence: Create an evaluation of volunteer competence and readiness in order to assess the effectiveness of volunteer training
• Prevention program effectiveness: Develop an assessment to gauge the effectiveness of The Green M&M Project curriculum and other curricula developed by TAC
• Coordinate with other units in Student Affairs regarding their evaluation efforts
• Implement evaluation plan(s), collect and analyze data
• Use Access, Excel, Minitab and/or SPSS to provide analysis of data collected
• Make recommendations to director based on evaluation results

Supervision (10%)

• Provide supervision to Violence Prevention Education Coordinator

Other (10%)

• Act as contact for all media requests
• Act as mentor for student volunteers and interns
• Serve as staff liaison on appropriate University of Minnesota committees or planning groups for policy development and special projects
• Provide advocacy for clients when primary advocates are unable to do so
• Demonstrate and maintain professional boundaries in working with volunteers and clients
• Maintain a strict policy of confidentiality
• Other responsibilities as deemed appropriate.