Employment Opportunities

 
Are you ready to make a difference? Whether it’s at CCADV or one of our 18 member organizations, you’ll have an opportunity to be part of an impactful, committed team of professionals working everyday to make the lives of survivors and their children better. Check out current job opportunities & student internships below!

 

CCADV Employment Opportunities

  • Director of Legal Advocacy (Full-Time): The Director of Legal Advocacy is a strong social change leader who champions victim-defined advocacy and provides leadership and guidance to CCADV's Family Violence Victim Advocate (FVVA) program. This position provides leadership on legal policy development, systems advocacy, and comprehensive advocacy training, along with ongoing grant management, including developing grant proposals and ensuring timely, accurate, and impactful reporting. Click here to read the complete job description and required qualification, and to apply.

  • Clinical Care Coordinator (Full-Time): The Clinical Care Coordinator will work with four assigned domestic violence member organizations and offer short term clinical services to survivors receiving services from member programs. Specifically, the Clinical Care Coordinator will work with survivors experiencing difficulty connecting with community providers. This position will bridge and combine, clinical intervention, behavioral health services, case consultation, and community partnership development with behavioral health practitioners. Additionally, this position will also provide educational support to staff at assigned member organizations and assist them in developing working relationships with local community providers. Click here to read the complete job description and qualifications, and to apply.

  • Safe Connect Intact Coordinator (Full-time, Bilingual Spanish): As the entry point for domestic violence services in Connecticut, the Safe Connect Intake Coordinator provides crisis intervention, information, and referral at the caller’s initial point of contact via telephone, chat, text messaging or email. This position works in partnership with our eighteen member organizations as the point of triage to assist victims with a seamless transition to services that can be easily accessed based on location. Safe Connect operates 24/7/365. This position requires weekend and holiday shift coverage on all shifts. We are currently hiring for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shifts. Click here to read the complete job description and required qualifications, as well as to apply.


 

Member Employment Opportunities

  • Domestic Violence Advocacy & Empowerment Services Program Manager (Full-time): The Domestic Violence Advocacy and Empowerment Services Program Manager supervises and supports The Center’s Domestic Violence Advocacy Services department, which provides intake, crisis intervention, advocacy, short-term counseling, case management and referrals for victims of domestic violence/ intimate partner violence as well as sexual violence/abuse. In addition, this position will also coordinate The Center’s empowerment/self-sufficiency services. Click here to read the complete job description and required qualifications. Please email resumes to Chief Program Officer, Kayte Cwikla-Masas kcwikla@centerforfamilyjustice.org.

 

CCADV Internship Program

CCADV's internship program offers students working towards a Bachelors or graduate degree with the opportunity to combine their academic studies with on-the-job-training and experience.

  • Students interested in an internship opportunity with CCADV should submit a cover letter and resume to Bergen Battiston, Office Manager, at bbattiston@ctcadv.org. The cover letter must address the following:

    • Why are you interested in interning at CCADV?
    • What internship focus area are you interested in?
    • What is your area of study and how does it relate?
    • The beginning and end dates you are requesting for your placement, the amount of hours per week you are requesting, and whether or not you are seeking school credit.

    Placements are available for the fall & spring semesters, as well as for the summer. Cover letters and resumes will be accepted based on the following schedule:

     

    Cover Letter / Resume Accepted

    Start Date (on or about)

    No later than August 1st

    September 1st

    No later than December 1st

    January 1st

    No later than May 1st

    June 1st

     

    A limited number of internship placements are available and will be granted on a rolling basis. Internship requests that are received without the required cover letter and resume, or outside of the schedule noted above, will not be considered.

Internship Focus Areas May Include:

  • Communications/Public Awareness
  • Member Services Coordination
  • Program support, research and community organizing for programs such as: Children’s Advocacy, Diversity & Accessibility, Fatality Review, Law Enforcement Coordination, Legal Advocacy, Primary Prevention & TeamUp CT, Healthcare Advocacy, Housing Advocacy
  • Project Assessment & Evaluation
  • Public Policy
  • Direct service coordination/hotline
  • Development/fundraising/event organization

*Please note that not every project area has internship projects available each semester. Applications and available projects will be decided on a case-by-case basis.