Resource Specialist

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🏈 Alabama, Florida, +7 more states – Remote

🏈 Alabama – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🐎 Kentucky – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🎸 Mississippi – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote ⛰️ West Virginia – Remote 🍑 Georgia – Remote

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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1984

🤝 Non-profit

Non-profit

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is the nation’s largest and most influential child protection organization. It leads efforts to protect children by providing resources, operating a 24-hour hotline and CyberTipline for reporting child sexual exploitation, supporting missing children cases and AMBER Alerts, offering victim and family support, professional training and education programs (NetSmartz, KidSmartz), removing explicit content, and partnering with government and corporate entities. It focuses on issues like child sexual abuse material, online enticement, child sex trafficking, abductions, missing and endangered children, generative AI implications, and provides legal, mental health, and disaster response resources. The organization operates regional offices and is funded in part by government grants and donations.

📋 Description

• Serve as a regionally assigned subject matter expert on child sex trafficking response and trauma-informed, youth-centered intervention • Provide individualized, case-specific assistance to child welfare professionals and multidisciplinary team members supporting youth with active NCMEC missing-child cases • Support recovery planning, safety planning, youth engagement, connection to specialized local resources, and troubleshooting of system barriers and complex case scenarios • Conduct strategic outreach and cultivate relationships with victim service providers, child welfare agencies, child advocacy centers, task forces, and regional resources • Maintain current regional resources, contacts, laws, policies, processes, and child sex trafficking response knowledge • Develop and maintain relationships with specialized providers and national child sex trafficking networks • Conduct outreach to child welfare and multidisciplinary team members to support intentional, victim-centered, trauma-informed recovery plans • Provide psychoeducation, coaching on strength-based youth engagement, safety planning, and support related to youths’ stages of change • Document case efforts and activities accurately within required timelines • Coordinate with NCMEC case managers, analysts, supervisors, and managers across relevant divisions • Contribute to materials and resources for child welfare professionals and multidisciplinary teams • Provide technical assistance on operational child sex trafficking recovery plans, victim assistance, and trauma-informed considerations • Participate at times in live, short-duration enforcement operations, including possible evening, overnight, or weekend shifts • Share promising practices, research, case examples, and resources with Recovery Services Team members • Communicate individualized, practical applications of trauma-informed response, victim engagement, safety planning, and rapport building • Provide presentations and trainings on NCMEC resources and Recovery Services Team services • Explain NCMEC programs, resources, and data to internal and external stakeholders • Collaborate on projects and cases involving missing or exploited child victims of sex trafficking • Promote NCMEC’s child-protection mission and maintain professional, courteous communication with stakeholders • Respond promptly to calls and correspondence, follow organizational policies, and perform other assigned duties

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Criminal Justice or a related field • Minimum of 6 years professional experience providing direct services to survivors of child sex trafficking, combined with practical knowledge and experience providing individualized technical assistance to professionals on complex topics such as trauma-informed response, stages of change, safety planning, and strength-based youth engagement • Demonstrated experience participating in recovery response or planning efforts related to victims of child sex trafficking • Experience professionally challenging misunderstanding, bias, and attitudes about youth who have run away and are being exploited through child sex trafficking • Experience working within or interfacing with child welfare agencies, strongly preferred • Specialized knowledge and experience working with populations impacted by child sex trafficking; experience with marginalized youth and communities strongly preferred • Individuals with lived experience of CST or other relevant specialized experience encouraged to apply • None of the listed licenses or certifications are required; LSW, LCSW, LPC, and LPA are preferred • Must be eligible to apply for Virginia Criminal Information Network (VCIN) certification, requiring either U.S. citizenship or lawful U.S. residence for the past 10 consecutive years • Ability to successfully pass background screening, including fingerprinting, criminal history check, and professional references • Strong knowledge of child sex trafficking topics, victim vulnerabilities, trafficking tactics, victim services, survivor-informed efforts, policy, and legislation in the United States • Demonstrated success managing and forging relationships with diverse local and national anti-trafficking stakeholders • Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex topics and communicate effectively to relevant audiences • Demonstrated problem-solving, communication, active listening, and mediation skills • Ability to work with difficult or disturbing case situations • Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; ability to prioritize multiple tasks • Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite, PowerPoint, and Excel, and ability to learn new software systems • Ability to balance projects, meet deadlines, and ensure staff project deadlines are met • Adaptability, flexibility, and ability to work independently and as part of a team • Ability to handle and maintain the integrity and confidentiality of highly sensitive material and information • Passion for combating child sex trafficking in the United States and supporting NCMEC’s mission • Must live in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, or West Virginia, or be willing to relocate to a state in the region • Monday–Friday availability, 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m. in the time zone encompassing the majority of states served • Ability to travel as needed; occasional after-hours, overnight, and weekend work may be required

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Access to high-speed internet and a workspace that guarantees the safety of sensitive information • Occasional travel, conferences, training, presentations, and public speaking engagements • Minimum 37.5 hours within five days per week • After-hours and weekend response/collaboration availability as needed

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