Bilingual Sexual Assault Services Advocate

About ACTS

We serve our Prince William County neighbors in crisis. Each role provides unique support for our mission to make a difference in their lives.

About the role

The Bilingual Sexual Assault Services Advocate provides crisis intervention, advocacy, and support services to sexual assault survivors and their families in both English and Spanish. This position delivers immediate and ongoing trauma-informed services, including hotline response, hospital, police and court accompaniment, emotional support, resource navigation, and case management. The advocate also facilitates outreach, prevention education, and support groups, while maintaining accurate client records and statistical data.

Benefits and Rewards :

• Full health insurance options with generous employer contribution for medical and 403(b) matching.
• Paid lunchtime and vacation, sick, personal and Birthday time off plus Comp Time!
• Additional time off from December 25 - January 1
• Serve with highly trained, effective crisis specialists.
• Grow your skills with free, award-winning on-demand training plus 40 paid hours of crisis intervention training each year.
• Use your talents in a successful organization with over 50 years of significant impact in the community.

Position Title and Department : BilingualSexual Assault Service Advocate, Sexual Assault Services

Pay : $48,532.61 per year ($1000 additional per year for additional graduate degree of value to ACTS)

Reports to : Director of Sexual Assault Services

Hours per week and schedule : 40 hours, Monday through Friday, 9am- 5pm, flexibility for client needs or events required including on holidays as needed

Telework Friendly : Yes (application and approval required)

Pay Type : Salary (not OT eligible)

Essential : No; Client Contact Position : Yes

Driving required : Yes; Personal vehicle required : Yes

Location : Dumfries, VA

Effective Date : Aug 12, 2025

What you'll do

Essential Job Functions : Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions

Supervisory Responsibilities : None

Direct Services & Advocacy

On-Call & Crisis Response

Data & Reporting

Outreach & Collaboration

Program & Volunteer Support

Other Duties

Qualifications

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Education and Experience :

A bachelor's degree in human services, behavioral sciences or allied field (including criminal justice, education and psychology)

Physical Requirements :

Other duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

ACTS provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

The unlawful or unauthorized use, abuse, solicitation, theft, possession, transfer, purchase, sale or distribution of controlled substances (including medical marijuana), drug paraphernalia or alcohol by an individual anywhere on Organization premises, while on Organization business (whether or not on Organization premises) or while representing the Organization, is strictly prohibited. Violation of this policy will result in disciplinary action, up to and including discharge.

The pay range for this role is :

48,532.61 - 49,532.61 USD per year (Administration Building)