Advocate - The University of Tulsa

The Campus and Sexual Assault Advocate serves as a staff member at will of Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS). The Campus and Sexual Assault Advocate provides support and advocacy to students on the University of Tulsa Campus.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Priority 1: Equity and Inclusion

• Reflect and understand how identities could give advantages in the workplace—even if they are not asked for or earned—while others might experience disadvantages.? Reflect on how our position and power may shift depending on the environment, the people, or the institutions at play. Build the awareness and compassion that is needed and expected to create an equitable and inclusive workplace. ???
• Create an inclusive environment and behave in a way that ensures that clients and employees feel embraced, no matter what their cultural orientations are, respected and valued, engaged, and connected to the community, and safe from abuse and harassment.

Priority 2: Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Advocacy

• Actively promote the agency, its services, and volunteer opportunities through public appearances and speaking engagements.
• Provide training and information about sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, human trafficking, and stalking on the school campus.
• Provide hospital advocacy and crisis intervention for rape exams when necessary.
• Provide advocacy, case management, and follow-up calls for students as needed.
• Assist students in accessing agency and community services to meet immediate and long-term needs.

Other Duties/Responsibilities: Other assistance to support the overall goals of the department and organization. DVIS retains the right to add or change duties and/or responsibilities at any time.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Budgetary/Fiscal Responsibilities: Acts as a good steward of DVIS’s resources.

Responsibility for Confidentiality: The nature of this work requires safeguarding against the release of confidential and proprietary information of DVIS and its clients.

Contact with Others: This position will interact with managers at all levels and staff members across the organization, in addition to members of external organizations and the public.

Documentation: Maintains up-to-date and accurate files for each client according to agency guidelines and current professional standards. Compile statistics on a monthly basis for grant reporting

Meetings and Training: Attend meetings and training as requested by supervisor.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in behavioral sciences or in a related field, or any equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

Experience: Requires a minimum of two years’ experience in a social service setting, experience working with victims of violent crime including familiarity with hospital, police, and court procedures pertaining to sexual assault, knowledge of post-traumatic stress and rape trauma syndrome, skills in active listening and crisis intervention are strongly preferred, or any equivalent combination of experience, lived experience, and/or special skills.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Proven computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite are necessary.
• Knowledge of or experience working with social justice issues, specifically intimate partner and gender-based domestic and sexual violence, and racial, class, gender, sexual orientation issues, and intervention/prevention services strongly preferred. Requires dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion, excellent organizational skills, written and oral communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize work and tasks. Requires adaptability to produce and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, multi-task, and changing environment, with frequent pressure related to meeting deadlines and scheduling requirements. Must be able to work independently and as part of a team. Requires the ability to embrace, support, and integrate DVIS’s philosophies to promote and demonstrate DVIS’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and anti-racism.
• Experience applying an equitable analysis to all duties to achieve organizational goals and demonstrate DVIS’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and anti-racism preferred.
• Diplomacy at confronting personal, individual, and internal discrimination requiring sharing and discussing personal identities relative to the work environment is strongly preferred.

Schedule Availability: Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Occasional extended workdays.

Licenses/Certifications: Valid Oklahoma driver’s license; reliable transportation required.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made when requested to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Ability to communicate and understand in English [and insert language] effectively, in person, and in writing. Ability to hear adequately in person and by phone, in personal and group settings, and function with periodic distractions such as people, telephone calls, and noise.

Ability to work with, and process information from, a variety of individuals and media (e.g., computers, projected images, printed materials), and occasional sitting and/or standing for long periods of time.

Mobility is necessary to access various offices and a wide variety of settings. Mobility is necessary to perform a variety of tasks that involve intermittent standing, walking/traversing, sitting, stooping, kneeling, bending, and twisting, occasionally climbing stairs or using an elevator, and possibly reaching chest high and overhead for materials.

Ability to reach for, move, and/or lift up to 25 pounds and the use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, including frequent repetitive movement such as extended periods of keyboarding.