Job description

The Organization:

SEEDS envisions a future in which all individuals, organizations, and communities recognize conflict as an opportunity for positive growth and have the skills and capacity to engage in effective dialogue and promote peaceful resolution of interpersonal and intergroup challenges and conflicts.

SEEDS is a professional service organization that offers a range of skilled conflict transformation services to residents, governments, businesses, school districts, and communities throughout the Bay Area. We have an excellent reputation for supplying high quality programs across the Bay Area for over 30 years.

The core to SEEDS’ approach to Restorative Justice Implementation centers on community building, conflict resolution, restorative inquiry, de-escalation, harm repair, relationship restoration and positive school culture and climate development. In addition to restorative justice trainings, SEEDS’ School Services offers support services in building the capacity of relational school systems including effective communication strategies, feedback, customer service, facilitation, transition management, interest-based decision making, and conflict mediation.

COVID Policies:

All staff are required to be fully vaccinated (2 doses of a 2-dose sequence or 1 dose of a 1-dose sequence), barring a medical or religious exemption. We base our in-office masking policy on current public health data and governmental guidelines. As of April 2022, staff are asked to wear masks in public areas of the office unless otherwise agreed by everyone present. We have a hybrid remote/in-person work model and currently require employees to be present in the office at least 3 days per week with the option to work remotely up to 2 days per week. We work remotely when public health guidelines require it.

The Opportunity:
Join a dynamic, highly communicative, and collaborative team committed to fostering positive relationships between educators and students and supporting schools in the paradigm shift from a punitive model to a framework that embodies restorative justice and practices.

This role supports the implementation of restorative practices with contracted schools and youth serving organizations throughout California using the SEEDS fee for service model. We are looking for a highly skilled, energetic, experienced Senior Practitioner who can deliver high-quality, engaging trainings with administrators and teachers in a direct and compassionate way and facilitate structured, organized group processes.

Reporting Structure: Reports to the School Services Manager.

In this position, you will:

• Participate in the SEEDS team
• Support service delivery in accordance with SEEDS business plans, mission, vision, and values
• Participate in team and staff meetings and circles
• Practice congruence with Conflict Transformation and Restorative communication internally and externally
• Represent and promote SEEDS in accordance with organizational values and messaging
• Design and deliver customized conflict transformation services
• Conduct direct service delivery of restorative practices in schools (including formal training, circle facilitation, coaching) using SEEDS’ 3-5 year whole school RJ culture and skills model
• Train cohorts of staff, students, and/or admin, often with the background of conflict/tension among staff/parents/students
• Provide mediation services for education-based clients and organizations
• Support contracting process
• Ensure timely and accurate data entry
• Develop and improve programs
• Give feedback on school-based offerings including materials, program models, toolkit resources, etc.
• Meet quarterly with School Services Manager and other practitioners to review best practices, give feedback on curriculum, update resources
• Ensure consistency and quality of all materials
• Ensure high quality infrastructure, systems, evaluation, and quality assurance for School Service programming and mediation cases
• Support School Services program development
• Support School Services curriculum development
• Support School Services data entry via SalesForce and Google Suite
• Additional projects and duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements:

• Valid CA Driver’s License and access to a working vehicle (for required in-person service delivery)
• Ability and willingness to travel within the Bay Area and beyond for in-person service delivery
• Ability and willingness to utilize organizational technological systems (MacOS, Salesforce, Google Classroom, Box, Microsoft Office, etc.)
• Conflict resolution, mediation, and restorative justice training
• Experience facilitating group processes, training or teaching, and/or mediating conflict
• Experience working and communicating with stakeholders representing broad diversity in terms of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion, etc.

This job is for you if:

• You are confident engaging with people in both virtual and physical spaces
• You enjoy learning new things, learn quickly and can roll with change. You’re open to trying on the “beginner’s mindset” and committed to continuous growth.
• You are a team player with a capacity for both collaboration and independent initiative.
• You are committed to relationship building, restorative communication, moving through difficult conversations, and non-adversarial problem solving.
• You can manage multiple projects at the same time and quickly reprioritize competing needs.
• You enjoy problem solving and thinking creatively. You don’t get flustered if you don’t have all the answers. You take initiative until you get what you need.
• You REALLY have a service mindset, are eager to create client satisfaction, and engage with humility when it comes to working with people from diverse backgrounds and with diverse values.
• You have a commitment to self-reflection, self-knowledge, and self-growth so that you can offer better support to those you’re serving.
• You get energized by identifying areas for improvement and growth and thrive on being resourceful and innovative.
• You are committed to equity and learning how to exist in today’s current society while moving the needle forward.
• You understand that a non-profit is a business and that our work costs money.
• You love thinking about better ways to educate and train adults, taking into consideration diverse identities, lived experiences, cultures, and neurodiversity.
• You have a strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills and are a go getter.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and flexible with the changing nature of growing organizations.
• You love building processes and procedures to improve program impact.
• You are patient and able to meet people where they are
• You love working with people, hearing their stories and serving needs.
• You love the details and ensuring you’re using and/or creating the systems needed to ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
• You recognize that being a conflict transformation provider is a life-long learning process of addressing your own triggers/activators.

Compensation

Full-time exempt position. $66,000-$69,000 commensurate with experience. SEEDS offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: $575 monthly allocation for health, dental, and vision insurance and 403(b) retirement plan; 13 paid holidays per year; 2 weeks’ vacation per year; 12 sick days per year; and a yearly professional development allowance.

We strongly encourage and seek applications from people of color, including bilingual and multicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. SEEDS is an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, and breastfeeding and related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, veteran or military status, marital status, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws.

To apply: Please email cover letter and resume to jobs at seedscrc dot orgasap. Please put School Services Senior Practitioner into the title.

We will be accepting applications and interviewing on a rolling basis. Position open until filled. Please note that we cannot respond to applicant queries outside of our typical process.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $34.00 - $35.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

COVID-19 considerations:
All staff are required to be fully vaccinated (2 doses of a 2-dose sequence or 1 dose of a 1-dose sequence), barring a medical or religious exemption. We base our in-office masking policy on current public health data and governmental guidelines.

Application Question(s):

• Have you submitted a cover letter? Please note that applications without cover letters will be automatically rejected.

Work Location: Multiple Locations

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