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The Strategic Sharing Facilitator is responsible for delivering engaging, trauma-informed training to individuals with lived experience in the child welfare system, equipping them to share their personal stories in ways that are meaningful, focused, and impactful. This role ensures participants learn to communicate their experiences in a manner that influences positive change while safeguarding their emotional well-being and minimizing potential risks associated with personal sharing.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Facilitate Strategic Sharing training sessions for individuals with lived experience in child welfare, including birth parents, caregivers, foster/adoptive parents, and youth who have experienced care.

• Guide participants in identifying key elements of their stories to align with the goals of influencing policy, practice, and system improvement.

• Teach and model storytelling techniques that focus on relevance, clarity, and purpose.

• Provide strategies for setting personal boundaries and maintaining emotional safety while sharing personal experiences.

• Create a supportive, respectful, and inclusive learning environment that honors participant perspectives and fosters trust.

• Adapt facilitation techniques to meet the diverse needs, learning styles, and comfort levels of participants.

• Collaborate with program staff to refine training content, activities, and materials to ensure cultural responsiveness and effectiveness.

• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to ethical guidelines in all training interactions.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience facilitating training or workshops, preferably in human services, child welfare, or community engagement settings.

• Lived experience in the child welfare system strongly preferred.

• Strong understanding of trauma-informed and strengths-based practices.

• Excellent communication, active listening, and group facilitation skills.

• Ability to create a safe and supportive environment for sharing sensitive personal stories.

• Skilled in adapting facilitation for various group sizes and participant needs.

• Commitment to professional boundaries, confidentiality, and ethical practice.

• Experience in public speaking, storytelling, or advocacy.

• Knowledge of child welfare policies, practices, and systems.

• Capacity to manage emotional topics with empathy and professionalism.

• Flexibility, creativity, and problem-solving skills.

The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry.

EEO Statement

The University System of New Hampshire is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access employer. The University System is committed to creating an environment that values and supports diversity and inclusiveness across our campus communities and encourages applications from qualified individuals who will help us achieve this mission. The University System prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or marital status.

Location:

Manchester

Salary Grade:

Adjunct Hourly Staff 00