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Violence Prevention Program Coordinator
Summary
The purpose of the job is to reduce violence and support affected individuals by building strong community partnerships, enhancing specialized service coordination, and driving cross-organizational collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Facilitates collaborative meetings with community partners to address the social determinants of health connected to violence prevention and intervention in Columbia.
- Builds communication channels across organizations to promote resource sharing, data exchange, and aligned strategies.
- Aligns cross-organizational interventions, activities, and long-term violence prevention initiatives.
- Partners with community-based organization leaders and stakeholders to ensure continuous evaluation of all Office of Violence Prevention supported violence prevention and intervention initiatives.
- Designs and implements data collection tools to systematically measure program performance, outcomes, and community impact.
- Synthesizes and summarizes evaluation data to provide actionable insights, report on progress, and inform ongoing program improvements.
- Utilizes established networks and partnerships to connect high-risk communities with local opportunities and support systems.
- Regular attendance is a necessary and essential function.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Experience Requirements
Education and Experience
- Bachelorโs Degree in Social Work, Sociology, Criminal Justice, Public Administration, or a related field.
- 3 to 5 yearsโ experience in violence prevention, social services, nonprofit, community engagement or closely related field.
Licenses or Certifications
- Valid driverโs license or reliable transportation.
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Knowledge of:
- Evidence based community violence intervention strategies and approaches to violence reduction.
- Environmental, economic, and social factors that influence community safety.
- Community resources
- Research techniques.
- Basic qualitative and quantitative data collection methods and performance measurement tools.
- General office practices and administrative procedures, records management, and administration techniques and procedures
- Common business software applications such as Microsoft Office.
Skill in:
- Bringing together diverse community partners and residents to foster collaboration.
- Gathering, analyzing, and summarizing evaluation date into actionable reports.
- Communicating verbally and in writing to meet the needs of the audience.
- Applying active listening and asking questions for understanding.
- Organizing work and managing time effectively.
- Maintaining attention to detail.
Ability to:
- Establish, nurture, and sustain relationships with leaders, service providers and community members.
- Handle difficult and stressful situations with professional composure and maintain effective interpersonal relationships.
- Present information to small and large groups.
- Recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems.
- Prioritize workload and work independently.
- Learn new programs and systems.
- Regularly use a computer, software, phone and related office equipment.
- Focus on tasks.
- Work evenings and weekends as needed.
Benefits
Skill Sets
Behavioral Traits
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