Volunteer with Atria

We are deeply grateful for our dedicated volunteers, who work to serve individuals across the gender spectrum.

Our 60+ community volunteers contribute more than 7,000 hours annually to help us further our mission by providing such services such as: 24-hour hotline hotline staffing, info table staffing, in-person office support, court accompaniment, and administrative support.

All volunteers, board members, interns, and staff at Atria Collective must participate in our volunteer training. Our volunteer training is bi-annual, typically held in October and April. To make our training as accessible as possible, our trainings follow a hybrid model, where participants attend in-person and/or virtually.

We offer various tracks for volunteers to choose. Everyone must first go through the Foundations track, which covers the history and roots of sexual & domestic violence, domestic violence 101, and sexual violence 101. Then, volunteers who would like additional training can follow our advocacy track, supervised visitation track, and/or administrative track.

Join Atria

Find our current open roles listed below and check back periodically for updates.

We devote special attention to dismantling all forms of oppression, including gender-based violence and racial injustice and recognize that diversity in our workforce is critical to fulfilling our mission. We are committed to the diversity of our staff and encourage applicants from marginalized communities and survivors of gender-based violence to apply. All applicants must be dedicated to working in and sustaining an environment of inclusion that affirms and celebrates the backgrounds, learned and lived expertise, whole identities, and individual perspectives of our staff.

Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal.

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Use this form, or send your resume and cover letter to:

Hiring Committee
Atria Collective
PO Box 67
Middlebury, VT 05753-0067

Open roles

Per Diem Direct Service Advocate

The per diem Direct Service Advocate is responsible for the direct provision of comprehensive, trauma-informed services to those accessing services from WomenSafe and The Supervised Visitation Program. This position has two distinct roles. The first role is to be an in-office Direct Service Advocate and the second role is to assist the Supervised Visitation Program as a Supervised Visitation Program Monitor.

The pay for this position is $22 per hour. The position is per diem, averaging at about 10 hours per week.

Duties and responsibilities include:

  • Provide direct services to survivors through the hotline and in-person request 

  • Provide on-going survivor centered emotional support and advocacy, including safety planning, options, and crisis management 

  • Support with legal advocacy and navigating other community organizations

  • Support service users with economic justice matters: 

    • Maintenance and expansion of economic justice resources 

    • Outreach and marketing of economic justice resources 

    • Development and implementation of economic justice related workshops 

  • Facilitate a safer environment for parent-child contact to occur 

  • Maintain the policy of strict neutrality between all parties involved, providing unbiased services that emphasizes in an uncompromising way the safety that each individual is entitled to while helping create a child centered environment   

  • Intervene in visits when a visiting parent’s behavior is inappropriate or threatens the safety of children, the other parent or program staff 

  • Be available on a per diem basis for visits on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays up to 10 hours total per week

  • Participate in collective tasks

  • Perform other related duties within the agency as requested by supervisor, the executive director or as decided in staff meetings 

  • Commitment to anti-oppression and anti-racist work and social equity  

Minimum qualifications:

  • An intersectional feminist understanding of gender justice issues, specifically those of domestic, dating, sexual violence, and stalking  

  • Ability to adhere to strict confidentiality policy  

  • A strengths-based and non-judgmental approach to supporting all survivors  

  • Domestic and/or sexual violence training and work or volunteer experience 

  • Crisis intervention and ability to remain calm under pressure  

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills 

  • Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and flexibility across tasks  

  • Strong organizational and computer literacy skills 

  • Knowledge and awareness pertaining to working with people of divers communities  

  • Flexibility and willingness to take on responsibility and new tasks 

  • Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience (each 6 months of relevant full-time experience can be substituted for a semester of full-time college work)