Facilitator 1

Hourly Rate: $30-45/hr

Employment Type: Hourly, Nonexempt

About The Ahimsa Collective

The Ahimsa Collective supports healing, builds safety, and challenges punitive thinking and practices. We work directly in our locality and support justice-based movements through training and technical assistance, opportunities to convene, and grantmaking to organizations doing similar work nationwide. For more information, visit The Ahimsa Collective.

Position Overview

The Facilitator 1 will learn to facilitate the Healing Pathways program at The Ahimsa Collective. Healing Pathways runs in-prison groups called Realize, Empathize, and PATH, the community-based Restorative Justice in the Community (RJC) program, Victim Offender Dialogues (VOD), and survivor support groups. This position is not to exceed 1040 hours a year. This position is based on the availability of grants and may terminate on 12/31/2025.

Job Responsibilities

• Learn to facilitate healing and accountability processes that include but are not limited to groups and one-on-one dialogues from start to finish. Tasks include attending meetings with co-facilitators and participants and giving input at meetings.

• Learn the curriculum and methodology for the Realize, Empathize, VOD, and RJC programs.

• Develop a basic understanding of restorative and transformative justice, trauma healing principles, and their applications to working with survivors and responsible parties.

• Help establish trusting relationships and rapport with participants and demonstrate the capacity to create a safe environment.

• Foster agency and voice for each participant.

• Observe interpersonal or group dynamics, make appropriate suggestions, and learn to gauge the needs of group and individual participants.

• Understand how power and oppression work in interpersonal and group dynamics, Recognize how culture, race, gender, age, ability, gender identity, and worldviews, as well as intersectionality, inform a participant’s lived experience.

• Identify one's own positionality in relationship to participants .

• Identify and integrate one’s own personal narratives regarding their past history while maintaining professional boundaries.

• Practice critical self-reflection on one's capacity as a facilitator, and be open to growth and feedback from participants, colleagues, and supervisors.

• Communicate consistently through phone, email, text, and in person with other facilitators and Ahimsa Collective staff.

• Receive and offer constructive feedback to further learning and capacity as facilitators.

• Attend meetings with co-facilitators and other Ahimsa Collective staff.

• Attend monthly facilitator meetings.

• Timely reporting of hours worked, invoicing, and other administrative tasks as assigned.

• If assigned as an in-prison facilitator, must not be absent from 2 or more sessions. Absences for 2 or more sessions may lead to termination.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience facilitating in a justice or educational capacity.

• 1-3 years of directly impacted lived experience or 2-4 years as a trained facilitator in the field.

• Strong understanding of the impact of the criminal legal system, incarceration, and gender-based violence on communities.

• Strong understanding of environmental, social, and historical conditions impacting communities of color, and a commitment to supporting these communities in their agency and leadership. Solid understanding of racial justice and patriarchy.

• Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Ability to manage, track, and complete workload independently. Self-motivated and driven.

• Strong organizational skills and ability to track multiple projects.

• Ability to work nights and weekends.

• Willingness to communicate through various media platforms (email, phone, text) based on participants' needs.

• Must have reliable means of transportation to get to and from worksite(s)

• Must have a Class A Drivers license and Government Issued Valid ID

Compensation & Benefits

• This position is not eligible for medical, dental, or vision or chiropractor.

• Benefits include federally mandated time off requests.

The Ahimsa Collective is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to maintaining a culturally diverse work environment that reflects the makeup of the communities we serve. People with diverse personal experiences are encouraged to apply, especially people of color, bilingual English-Spanish speakers, LGBTQIA+, women-identified, and those who have been formerly incarcerated or impacted by incarceration.