The Prevention Educator position at Ulster Prevention Council involves planning, implementing, and coordinating prevention education in school and community settings. The role requires teaching, facilitation, and public speaking skills, with a focus on substance-use disorder and prevention.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Education, Teaching, Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, or related Human Services field OR comparable mixture of education and demonstrated proficiency.
- Minimum two years of experience in teaching, facilitation, and/or public speaking.
- Minimum two years’ experience working with youth.
- Knowledge of (or ability to learn about) substance-use disorder and substance-use prevention.
- Ability to engage youth using a strength-based and culturally competent perspective and approach.
- Strong planning and written, verbal, and organizational skills, including the ability to work with students, staff, faculty, and community members.
- Quickly adaptable to changing ideas, responsibilities, expectations, and scheduling as related to program needs.
- Use and familiarity with technology and multiple forms of media and comfort using PCs and Microsoft Office software.
- Understanding of, and experience working with, an evidence-based curriculum
- One year of experience in substance-use prevention.
- Program monitoring and evaluation.
- Bilingual (Spanish/English) is a plus.
- Familiarity with social media and content creation.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer match up to 5%.
- Generous paid vacation, holiday, sick and personal time package (2 weeks’ vacation in first year, 13 paid holidays per year, 12 sick days per year and 4 personal days per year).
- Access to Family Services’ Compassionate Leave Program where employees can donate/receive unused time off.
- Group term life and long-term disability insurance.
- Supplemental life insurance & accidental death and dismemberment coverage (AD&D).
- Supplemental insurance through Aflac.
- Employee assistance program (EAP).
- Pet insurance.
