Community Engagement Specialist

With over 40 years of measured success in working with youth, SADD is widely considered the Nation’s Premier Youth Health and Safety Organization. We are a National team of dedicated professional advocates working to empower, engage, mobilize, and create positive change for students and adult allies through peer-to-peer intervention. Focusing on prevention programs in mobility safety, substance misuse, mental health, and leadership development, SADD students are working to impact their peers through a model of school and community-based chapters. Our chapter network is globally recognized, with members in all 50 states, various territories, and internationally, creating a presence on six continents. 

SADD aims to equip our students with the technical assistance and skills necessary to advocate for their safety effectively. Our motivated team of adult allies is many groups' first point of contact and inspiration. We seek that next great innovator and mentor to serve as the new Ohio SADD Community Engagement Specialist.

Essential Goals & Functions:

• Assisting senior staff in executing grant goals and objectives, coordinating activities, and communicating consistently with state grant representatives.
  • Supporting SADD chapters, including but not limited to identifying a staff advisor, liaising with administrators to advocate for SADD on campus, advocating for students with boards of education and boards of trustees, assisting students in developing chapter bylaws, creating a set of first meeting agendas or annual calendar of events, onboarding new advisors or chapter leadership, etc.
  • Working with current SADD chapters to build their leadership capacity and promote relevant programming, producing quality educational workshops, brainstorming events and ideas with chapters, and assisting with events and activities on the ground.
  • Contributing to a strategic digital footprint for the state, ensuring photos/videos of relevant events are shared with the Communications team for National promotion.
  • Participating with and supporting State staff with an active group of student leaders who serve as a statewide Student Leadership Council (SLC), hosting consistent meetings with students, providing guidance, promoting personal projects, and ensuring they complete tasks as assigned to assist in reaching grant goals.
  • Identifying and researching outreach opportunities, creating connections and partnerships, and scheduling programs to engage new chapters, schools, community organizations, and the like will be paramount to this position.
• Meeting the needs of SADD’s various constituents and organizational goals, focusing on data-driven outreach and results, which are reported as required by grant and SADD leadership. 
• Understanding and taking accountability for documentation of grant expenditures to ensure SADD remains a good steward of the funds.
• Accurately and informedly completing reporting, time cards, expenses, and related paperwork to ensure clear claims processing, which requires meeting internal and external deadlines.
• Collecting, recording, and managing chapter, participant, event, and demographic data, disseminating pre- and post-surveys to event attendees for program evaluation as needed.
• Exuding professional behavior; a "Yes, and…" attitude is expected when representing the organization.

Additional Activities:

• Specifically, in this role, serve as the statewide expert trainer in the Shifting Gears program, hosting train-the-trainer sessions, coordinating workshops, keeping data and disseminating resources, while conducting outreach to increase the visibility and use of program throughout the State.
• Assisting the Field Engagement team in developing programming, creation, and redesign; developing activity layouts, asset design, and training for students or adults to promote new opportunities; providing critical feedback from the field to inform programming updates.
• Support National initiatives, including various awareness campaigns, programmatic funder opportunities, National SLC, and conferences that help elevate and build student leaders.
• Other duties as needed & assigned.