The Harm Reduction Worker is responsible for the delivery of individual and program related support services to participants of Safe Harbour Outreach Project (SHOP), utilizing a non-judgmental, trauma informed, feminist, and harm reduction approach. This position reports directly to the SHOP Program Coordinator and receives mentorship and support from the SHOP Advocacy & Outreach Organizer.

Hours of Work: 21 hours per week, including possible evenings and weekends including possible evenings and weekends 

Closing Date: – Tuesday March 14th 4:30pm (Newfoundland Time)2023

Please email a cover letter and resume to: hiring@sjwomenscentre.ca 

*Applications with Cover Letter appreciated and will help us get to know you better.

Housing & Systems Case Workers (Safe Harbour Outreach Project, SHOP)

SHOP is hiring for two new positions! The Housing & Systems Case Workers are responsible for the delivery of individual and housing related support services to participants of Safe Harbour Outreach Project (SHOP), utilizing a non-judgmental and harm reduction approach. These positions will support individuals identified at the Community Access to Homes table with End Homelessness St. John’s. 

The Housing & Systems Case Workers report directly to the SHOP Program Coordinator and receives mentorship and support from the SHOP Advocacy & Outreach Organizer.

Closing Date: Sunday, April 24th 2022 – 4pm Newfoundland Time.

Please email a cover letter and resume to: hiring@sjwomenscentre.ca Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

SHOP is hiring for a new full-time Community Outreach Organizer. If you are passionate about sex workers’ rights, feminism, outreach and harm reduction, we would love to hear from you! Please see job description attached. Applications for this position will be accepted until 12pm Friday, October 8th, 2021. Start date for this position is after October 12th.

To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume to heather@sjwomenscentre.ca telling us why you are a great fit for this job supporting and advocating for sex workers. We encourage applicants to self-identify any marginalized lived experiences and identities you are comfortable sharing in your application, with the knowledge that disclosed experiences will remain confidential.

SHOP Community Outreach Organizer – Sept 2021

We are currently hiring for our Safe Harbour Outreach Program. We are looking for someone to join the province’s first and only sex worker advocacy program, as our new Housing and Outreach Worker. This new position is one of the only housing support positions for sex workers in Canada.  If you would like to work in a feminist, trauma-informed environment and are passionate about sex worker’s right, harm reduction, and working from a housing first approach – we look forward to hearing from you! See the job description below for more information.

The closing date is Sunday June 20th at 4:00 PM NST.  Please send cover letters and resumes to: heather@sjwomenscentre.ca.

SHOP Housing And Outreach Worker

SHOP is hiring for a new full-time Community Outreach Organizer. If you are passionate about sex workers’ rights, feminism, outreach and harm reduction, we would love to hear from you! Please see job description attached. Applications for this position will be accepted until 12pm Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume to heather@sjwomenscentre.ca telling us why you are a great fit for this job supporting and advocating for sex workers.

We encourage applicants to self-identify any marginalized lived experiences and identities you are comfortable sharing in your application, with the knowledge that disclosed experiences will remain confidential.

SHOP Community Outreach Organizer – job description (Sept.2020)

The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened the livelihood of many workers, particularly those who work in unprotected industries and lack access to traditional forms of income support and employment-related benefits. This pandemic has been especially devastating for sex workers who are unable to work – many of whom are experiencing a drastic loss of income without employement benefits, sick days, EI, and facing barriers to federal financial support programs. Without supports, sex workers find themselves trying to balance between self-isolating versus putting themselves at risk to continue meeting clients (some of whom are taking advantage of the situation to pressure workers for higher risk services for lower wages).

In the middle of an unprecedented public health crisis our sex working communities are struggling to access basic services and protections without facing stigma, violence, shame or barriers. This is especially true for sex workers who are homeless or do not have safe housing, are Indigenous and/or racialized, are trans, two spirit and non-binary, are surviving violence in their home, have precarious immigration status, and for sex workers who are living with chronic illness or disabilities.

With the help of some generous donations and emergency funding, Safe Harbour Outreach Project (SHOP) has established a COVID-19 Sex Worker Relief Fund to directly support sex workers during this difficult time. This SHOP Relief Fund will be used to help sex workers most affected by the pandemic continue to stay housed, pay bills, put food on the table, and survive the pandemic.

If you are a sex worker living in St. John’s or surrounding communities who identifies as a woman or a marginalized gender, and you would like to apply to the SHOP Sex Worker Relief Fund, please fill out our online application form (on your own or with the help of someone else), or get in contact with SHOP staff if you do not have access to the internet. We’re currently able to offer one-time funding and applications will remain open until we’ve reached capacity. If additional funds are available, we will update this on our social media. The form can be reached at the link embedded above, or by copying and pasting the following into your browser: shorturl.at/huQUZ 

Heather: 709-771-1077

Bridget: 709-771-7171

If you would like to contribute and donate to this fund, please visit the Canada Helps page of the St. John’s Women’s Centre and specify that you’d like the funds to go to “Safe Harbour Outreach Project (SHOP)”. All donations during this time will go directly to sex workers in need, with the goal of prioritizing members of our community who have been most affected. The more donations we receive, the more people we can support. Help ensure that no one is left behind during this pandemic. Please consider making a donation, and share this widely!

For more information about this Relief Fund, please contact:

Heather Jarvis

SHOP Program Coordinator

(709) 771-1077

heather@sjwomenscentre.ca

SHOP continues to advocate in many ways to challenge discrimination, stereotypes and misconceptions against sex workers, engaging in campaigns and education to address stigma, violence, and call for change. We submitted a report to St. John’s City Council in December 2018 containing information on why we advocated against a moratorium on massage parlour permits, references to national and international research for sex worker safety, and multiple letters from sex workers and survivors in St. John’s. We are now publishing the report as City Council is voting on the issue. You can view that report here: Lifting the Ban – SHOP Report for City Council

JOB TITLE

SHOP Summer Student/Program Support Worker

JOB DESCRIPTION/DUTIES

This position engages in group facilitation, outreach, harm reduction, advocacy, feminist and trauma informed approaches to front line service work. We strive to make our work as intersectional and strengths-based as possible so that individuals working with SHOP can experience community work while building their skills and work experience working with women. Duties include: planning summer workshops and events, assisting in the ongoing development of SHOP materials, co-coordinating regular weekly drop-in meals, volunteer support, upholding a non-judgmental environment for current and former sex workers and marginalized communities including LGBTQI2S people, Indigenous peoples, people living with disabilities, survivors of violence and trauma, formerly incarcerated women, and criminalized communities. Requirements: submitting a certificate of conduct, must identify as a woman or someone who has experience in sex work as a woman, previous engagement with sex worker issues. Preference given to women who are current or former sex workers.

PLAN FOR SUPERVISION

Reporting to the SHOP Program Coordinator, with support from the SHOP Community Outreach position, the SHOP Program Support Worker will receive training, support and check-ins on a weekly basis, with opportunities for debrief

PLEASE NOTE: Students applying for this position must be entering or returning to Post-Secondary training within the current year, must be legally entitled to work in Canada, and must not be an immediate family member of the employer.

Hourly Rate of Pay: $13/hour

Number of Hours a Week: 30

Number of Weeks Requested: 6

Closing Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 4pm NL Time

Please submit resumes to heather@sjwomenscentre.ca