Director of Prevention Program

Hours: 40 hours per week (32 work, 8 company-sponsored time)

Company Sponsored Time: We offer a 4-day, 32-hour work week, and YWCA will provide this role 8 hours of Company Sponsored Time for you to use on Fridays to maintain work-life balance while maintaining pay at 40 hours a week

Pay Range: $31.67/hour

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Summary:

The Director of Prevention Programs provides strategic leadership and vision for YWCA Clark County’s youth and community-focused violence prevention initiatives. This leadership role is responsible for aligning prevention programming with the organization’s mission of advancing racial and gender justice through trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and evidence-based practices. Reporting to the Vice President of Support and Prevention Programs, the Director plays a critical role in shaping and sustaining the organization’s long-term prevention strategy, building high-impact community partnerships, and overseeing a skilled, mission-driven team.

Mission

• Think through the lens of racial equity and its intersections with poverty. Use the core principles of anti-racism and grounding those principles in all daily tasks.
• Incorporate the YWCA’s commitment to social justice by understanding how racism, sexism, classism and other oppressions intersect and are embedded in institutions. Seek opportunities for continued learning about racial, gender and class equity.
• Assure that participants, staff, volunteers and community partners are treated with respect and dignity regardless of race, ethnic background, gender or socioeconomic background.
• Gain approval for, track, and engage in activities that meet the organization’s 1% for Social Change requirement.
• Provide leadership and direction to program staff, ensuring YWCA’s commitment to racial and gender justice is embedded in program decisions and operations.
• Ensure YWCA’s mission and values are reflected in the hiring process for new Prevention program staff, including evaluating candidates’ ability to advance racial and gender justice in their work

Program Leadership & Strategy

• Provide leadership to the Prevention Program, ensuring programs provide youth, youth service providers and community members programming that is grounded in the principles of anti-racism, intersectionality, and social justice.
• Provide organizational thought leadership on youth engagement, anti-violence prevention, and with trauma-informed, empowerment-based, culturally responsive, and inclusive services.
• Cultivate and maintain strategic partnerships with schools, community-based organizations, public agencies, coalitions, agencies and local leaders to expand the reach and impact of anti-violence and youth centered prevention programming.
• Plan and lead the strategic development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the prevention program, establishing annual goals and outcomes, to advance YWCA’s mission and strategic plan.
• Support and oversight to ensure implementation of youth summits and awareness months events (TDVAM, DVAM, SAAM).
• Represent Prevention Program on Management Team and with YWCA Core Trainings.
• Ensure program participation on organizational committees and trainings.

Program Compliance & Fiscal Oversight

• Lead program evaluation and impact measurement by overseeing program data collection, analysis, and continuous learning efforts to ensure accuracy and integrity of reports submitted to funders, partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Prepare and submit timely narrative and statistical reports for contracts, grants, and organizational reporting.
• Lead and support grant development efforts, including proposal writing, budget creation, program design, and reporting in partnership with the development team for proposals and renewals.
• Steward positive relationships with funders by attending meetings, responding to requests, providing timely, accurate reporting and by clearly articulating program outcomes, impact, and resource needs.
• Develop, manage, and monitor the Prevention Program budget, ensuring accurate allocation of resources and timely spend-down of multiple funding streams, including government contracts, foundation grants, and other sources.

Supervision

• Lead, coach, and support a multidisciplinary team of prevention professionals, ensuring a high-performing, values-aligned, and mission-driven team culture.
• Provide consistent supervision, professional development, and performance management to program staff.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative team environment that values accountability, integrity, and continuous learning.
• Ensure program staff comply with YWCA policies, state/federal regulations, and all grant/contract requirements, including training, service provision, and reporting standards.
• Successfully complete 56 hours of initial training, followed by 20 hours of annual training thereafter, including 5 hours of supervisor/management level training.

There is a strong social justice component to all positions within YWCA Clark County, requiring critical thinking through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Knowing the core principles of anti-racism and grounding those principles in everyday work are required job skills and core values.

Related education: Bachelor’s degree in social work, public health, human development, sociology or related field or possess equivalent experience or combination of education and experience.

Related experience:

• At least two years of experience in domestic violence or sexual assault prevention, survivor advocacy, directly related community organizing, or youth anti-violence intervention within a domestic violence or sexual assault program.
• At least two years of experience working directly with youth and teens.
• At least one year of experience in program leadership/management and development, providing effective coaching, guidance, and supervision.
• Demonstrated experience in community partnership development and public advocacy.

Strong project and time management skills: maintain a strategic focus while simultaneously managing multiple projects, deadlines, goals, and program needs that include group facilitations, community meetings, partner engagement, training and program specific meetings. Maintain up-to-date contact lists and calendar.

Strong Communication: skilled communicator, capable of influencing and inspiring diverse audiences including youth, community partners, funders, and internal stakeholders.

Knowledge of: trauma-informed classrooms, consent education, identity-based programming, peer to peer education models, Coaching Boys into Men Curriculum, and designing and implementing lesson plans and evaluation.

Unparalleled soft-skills: comfortable networking with various groups, organizations and individuals. With little to no prompting, adapt work and communication style to mitigate and/or de-escalate, improve the ability to work effectively with community partners as well as staff, and forge lasting and mutually beneficial professional relationships.

Ability to work in a team: consistently convey an open, respectful, and solution-oriented approach when seeking support, addressing challenges, completing work tasks, and providing or requesting feedback. Demonstrate unwavering integrity by taking accountability for mistakes, doing what’s needed to correct them, fostering excellent communication and supporting fellow co-workers to do the same.

Ability to maintain strong boundaries: use work time to support the program and organization in a manner that protects our participants’ right to privacy. Set appropriate professional boundaries with youth served as well as model healthy boundary setting to support skill development.

Strong technological skills: strong working knowledge of the MS suite of products, Google applications, various internet browsers, data entry programs, and social media platforms

Don't meet every single requirement after reading through this post? You may be just the right candidate for the role or future roles, and please know we value lived experience! Studies have shown that due to white supremacy culture, systemically oppressed communities are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. YWCA Clark County is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways.