Intake and Advocacy Coordinator

This position is open until filled. For best consideration, please submit application materials by April 13, 2025.

At Mt. Hood Community College, we hold ourselves accountable to align our systems, policies, practices, and resource allocations to strategically and purposefully advance equity. We recognize the harm done to historically excluded people. We work towards a future where all people across the spectrum of difference thrive at Mt. Hood Community College. We seek to provide every person within our community the tools to be successful. We actively design equitable systems to promote fairness and justice.

Mt. Hood Community College prioritizes equity and acknowledges the importance of the ongoing and intentional work to interrupt oppression and remove barriers that perpetuate inequity. We strive to become an organization that demonstrates equity in concept, practice, and outcomes, where all people are valued and feel a sense of belonging.

About the Position 
In this newly established position, you will support the institution's compliance to Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and all state and local laws involving campus sexual misconduct, and provide direct service to students. You will be responsible for developing and implementing educations programs and training regarding sexual misconduct, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sex-based discrimination and harassment prevention to ensure that faculty, staff, and students understand their rights and, where applicable, responsibilities under the law. You will also support and coordinate reporting intake, responses, and resolutions to complaints and collaborate with campus entities and college leadership to identify and address systemic problems.

This is an on-site position.

Application Instructions
The following materials are required in your completed application:

• Resume
• Cover Letter which addresses how you meet the minimum and preferred qualifications of this position

Essential Functions

1. Provides direct-service to involved parties with a trauma-informed and culturally-responsive approach rooted in equitable treatment. Performs intake for complaints related to Title IX, sexual assault, domestic violence, stalking, and related areas. Responds to campus events, and provides for follow up and information gathering. Provides resources and referrals as appropriate.
2. Develops, implements, coordinates and conducts educational programs and initiatives designed to educate and support faculty, staff, and students regarding their rights and, where applicable, obligations under Title IX, state and local laws, including reporting options/responsibilities, support services, college policy and applicable disciplinary code, grievance procedures, confidential resources, etc.
3. Supports the Title IX coordinator and ensures intake and response of reports of sexual misconduct are appropriate, reliable, timely, confidential and impartial; reviews investigative findings and proposed sanctions for sexual misconduct before they are imposed to ensure that they are aligned with Title IX expectations. 
4. Coordinates with personnel of other college areas related to addressing sexual misconduct, which includes training, coordination of internal procedures and controls, and problem resolution. Provides and facilitates training and education as appropriate.
5. Supports a designated Title IX team across critical areas of the institution; ensures investigators, adjudicators, and those involved with processing Title IX complaints are adequately trained in compliance with Title IX guidance. Follows up with staff on training as needed.
6. Identifies systemic problems relating to complaints and recommends whether campus-wide resources should be adopted in response, including review and revision of the college's sexual misconduct policies, increased monitoring, supervision or security at locations where sexual misconduct is reported to occur, and increased education and prevention efforts to targeted populations.
7. Collaborates with leadership and campus constituencies to disseminate information, redesign processes, and support the college's investigative processes; collaborates and coordinates with compliance partners within the department and across the institution to support the college's overlapping needs and responsibilities.
8. Communicates with local law enforcement and government agencies, as appropriate, to ensure reports are handled appropriately and in a timely manner; coordinates with local victim advocacy organizations and service providers.
9. Supports ongoing compliance with federal and state law by collecting and analyzing data, writing comprehensive reports, and maintaining records.
10. Serves on various college planning and policy making committees; recommends and participates in the development of college policies and procedures.
11. Provides information and reporting to Public Safety as required by the Clery Act.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, public administration, education, sociology, psychology, mental health, public health, human services, equity and inclusion, or related fields 
• Three (3) years of experience with sexual misconduct, Title IX compliance, sexual misconduct victim’s advocacy, and/or sexual health education programming
• Experience designing systems for equitable outcomes and a commitment to diversity and inclusion 

Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered on a year for year basis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience administering Title IX at the investigator level or higher
• Experience using trauma-informed and culturally-responsive practices that are healing focused
• Experience developing, implementing, and revising compliance systems and associated policies
• Experience managing training schedules for compliance, and prevention programming for faculty, staff, and students
• Current certification for Title IX, Victims Advocacy, or related certifications and/or trainings

Working Conditions

Work is typically performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a computer terminal. Visual eye strain and repetitive hand/wrist motion for data entry and keyboarding functions.

Benefits

Mt. Hood Community College offers an exceptional benefits package that includes vacation, sick and personal business or emergency leave; medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, long-term disability insurance; optional short-term disability insurance, optional life, optional AD&D; retirement through Oregon PERS; tuition waiver plan and professional development funds; and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).