Intervention Intern Job Description

Job Title: Intervention Intern

Department: Intervention

Reports To: Communications Director/Manager

FLSA Status: Full-time non-exempt

Summary:

Reporting to the Communications Director, the Intervention Intern has insight into the overall strategic, developmental, and operational responsibility for the Elijah Rising’s Intervention program, including helping facilitate sites, volunteers, and outreaches. The Intervention Intern should demonstrate a deep desire to learn and acquire knowledge of the field by keeping up to date with current trends in the commercial sex industry. Additionally, this role is responsible for entrance into new regions through raising up intervention sites, training, and mobilizing volunteer leaders, and providing ongoing leadership.

Required duties and responsibilities:

• Shadow Awareness Director, Communications Director and Volunteer Coordinator in order to take minutes in meetings, create reports, and assemble documents
• Serve as an additional point of contact for all intervention site leaders 
• Supports intervention site leaders through regular communication, materials, discipleship, and training
• Identifies potential site leaders and develop a plan that cultivates a leadership pipeline for each intervention site
• Help with event planning for Van tour launch and/or gala
• Maintains organization-wide data on the commercial sex industry as needed
• Might create supporting materials such as guides, handbooks, SOPs, waivers, and more
• Builds out a framework of supporting systems for the safe and uninterrupted delivery of interventions
• Helping develop new intervention methods as needed
• Collaborates with other outreach workers in the region as needed 
• Maintains and improves data capture and reporting across all intervention sites
• Coordinate with Elijah Rising leadership to facilitate speaking engagements, volunteer opportunities, and prayer initiatives as needed 
• Craft unique opportunities for the public to engage with interventions
• Increase Elijah Rising’s presence in various regions through the initiation of intervention events and sites
• Serve as an advocate for survivors both in and out of the life as needed

Qualifications

• Must have communication, writing, and language skills
• Must be detail-oriented
• Must have strong time-management skills
• Must possess a high capacity for managing multiple event and project logistics 
• Must have reliable transportation
• Must possess a valid state driver’s license and valid vehicle insurance
• Must be able to drive a 15-passenger van
• Must be able to drive on the highway for long distances (2 hours )
• Must successfully pass background checks and random drug testing during employment

Computer and Communication Skills

• Must be able to start conversations with strangers and go to places that might make you uncomfortable. 
• Demonstrated ability to discern in high-risk situations
• Ability to respond quickly during emergency situations
• Excellent computer skills needed
• Must be able to manage time efficiently to meet expected weekly deadlines
• Able to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals and articles
• Must be comfortable being on camera or being recorded

Physical Demands

Physical demands listed here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, reach, and drive using legs, arms, and hands. Vision requirements include close vision, far-range vision, and the ability to focus. Hearing requirements include the ability to hear a normal conversation in normal ranges and the ability to be in moderate to loud environments for extended periods of time.
• Other physical requirements specific to this job: 
  • Occasionally required to lift/carry and push/pull up to 50 lbs
  • Occasionally required to climb stairs, bend or stoop, kneel or crouch

**Reasonable accommodations can be made for individuals with disabilities

This internship is unpaid for a mutually agreed upon duration of time in which the purpose is for the intern to acquire skills beneficial to their future career development. By entering this internship, the intern is acknowledging that they understand there is no compensation offered nor is there a guarantee of employment upon completion of the internship.