Are you currently living in New York and interested in being part of an amazing volunteer collective? SAFER is looking for a Trainings Coordinator to join the team! I’ve included a description of this position below, but you can also find this volunteer listing on Idealist!
Trainings Coordinator
Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) is devoted to empowering college students to change how their schools prevent and respond to sexual violence by providing them with resources to help build successful grassroots sexual assault policy reform campaigns. SAFER trains students in effective organizing tactics and encourage them to examine the overlapping links between sexual assault and all forms of individual and institutional violence. Our goal is to ensure that every college puts in place prevention programs, crisis services, disciplinary procedures, and community outreach programs that challenge the oppressions that ultimately cause sexual violence.
SAFER is operated and governed by a diverse Board of Directors. The Board of Directors works as a volunteer collective, determining the policies and overall strategy of this nationally recognized nonprofit, largely operating by consensus. This intimate connection to the work and the field provides each member of the Board with an opportunity to actively create social change while gaining professional nonprofit management experience in a non-hierarchical setting. Our approach to running the organization provides a platform to strengthen one’s personal and professional skills while connecting to a greater network of like-minded advocates and activists.
SAFER is currently seeking a new Board Member to fill the role of Trainings Coordinator. Our Trainings Coordinator oversees the content of curriculum and training materials, trainings promotion and outreach, initial relationship building with campus organizers, supervision of our staff Trainer/Mentors and ensuring the logistical side of trainings is effectively carried out.
The Trainings Coordinator is Responsible For:
- Collaboration with the Communications Coordinators for the promotion of trainings on social media platforms
- Timely response to all trainings inquiries, follow up and documenting inquiries
- Supervision of two staff Trainer/Mentors via a monthly in-person check-in and e-mail
- Coordination of logistics of estimating the trainings cost, contracts, travel and accommodation arrangements and ensuring materials are available for trainings
- Reviewing curricula and materials and updating as necessary
- Reviewing trainings promotional materials including electronic outreach, flyer, sliding scale fee schema and contracts
- Reviewing evaluations and collaborating with Trainer/Mentors to improve current trainings
- Collaboration with the Mentoring Coordinator for smooth programmatic transitions from Trainings to the Activist Mentoring Program (AMP!)
- Innovative outreach strategies such as promotion of trainings during SAFER’s Winter Break Challenge and April’s Sexual Assault Activism Month
Meetings and Commitment:
SAFER holds monthly board meetings, which are currently scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month, 7:00p.m – 9:00p.m at SAFER’s downtown Manhattan office. (Dates are subject to change.)
Board members are active participants in the organization’s overall planning and fundraising efforts and communicate frequently via email–estimated time commitment of three to five hours per week. Board members must reside in the New York Metro Area.
