Overview

Since 1972, Covenant House has served and advocated for youth and young families experiencing homelessness, human trafficking, and exploitation. Our overarching goal is to end homelessness among youth and young families by helping them achieve housing stability, heal from trauma, tap into their innate resilience, and hone their interests and skills to forge new pathways to independence. This work is carried out across Covenant House sites in 34 cities in the US, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Overview

Since 1972, Covenant House has served and advocated for youth and young families experiencing homelessness, human trafficking, and exploitation. Our overarching goal is to end homelessness among youth and young families by helping them achieve housing stability, heal from trauma, tap into their innate resilience, and hone their interests and skills to forge new pathways to independence. Since 2022, Covenant House in Latin America has partnered with the State Department and its Office for Trafficking in Persons to prevent, protect and pursue trafficking and exploitation crimes. Building on an existing intervention, the position will further strengthen human trafficking prevention and protection for children aged 12-18 who are survivors or are at high risk for human trafficking in Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. From a prevention perspective, the role will strengthen the capacity of service providers, communities, youth, and survivors themselves to identify victims and address root causes and enabling conditions that allow trafficking to persist. From a protection perspective, our sites in Latin America are in the process of adapting the enhanced, evidence-informed Covenant House Program Model, our approach to care and centers our work on helping young people reach their goals,



build a lasting sense of belonging, and sustainably end their experience with homelessness. The position will further strengthen trauma-informed, survivor-centered wraparound services by supporting this adaptation. As part of this process, we are enhancing our staff knowledge and capacities about trauma and its impact on the still-developing brains and behaviors of our young people.

Location:
Honduras, Mexico, or Guatemala. Applicant must have legal work status in the country they will be working from. Salary will be commensurate with experience and contingent upon location.

About The Role

The Regional Manager, Program Training (Latin America) will lead the design and facilitation of training for Covenant House sites and partners in the Latin America region on the use of human trafficking and screening tools, as well as Covenant House's Program Model critical content. Regarding the former, you will conduct the work in close coordination with Covenant House International's Program Department and Covenant House New Jersey, research partners, and external stakeholders, with the aim of contributing to the cultural adaptation and testing of tools and protocols, and to develop and deliver training curricula for both specialized and non-specialized service providers, and strengthen local capacity through Training of Trainers initiatives, technical assistance, and ongoing support.



In this role, you will help ensure that organizations serving children and youth can effectively identify, refer, and respond to cases of human trafficking using evidence-based, culturally relevant practices. In addition, as part of the updating of Covenant House’s model of care in Latin America, you will 1) support staff training to build capacity to effectively engage in transformational relationships with youth, 2) improve practice, quality and service delivery policy and 3) provide coaching and contribute to quality assurance efforts to embed trauma-informed care, youth engagement, and transformational relationships throughout service delivery. You will work closely with the Program and Research, Evaluation and Learning teams at local sites and CHI, as well as external institutions, to build new and enhance existing trainings in key programmatic areas, facilitate trainings and workshops, develop train-the-trainer curricula and plans, and evaluate the effectiveness of training programs and resources. All work in this area will be undertaken with a spirit of collaboration and commitment to partnership with Covenant House site leaders and designed from a strengths-based, culturally sensitive, trauma-informed lens. If you are a positive, dynamic, and hardworking individual, then come join our awesome international team at an organization with a heart All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Content Development & Management

- Develop and refine training content, curriculum and resources related to the trafficking identification tools (QYIT and HTIAM).
- Develop a train-the-trainer model, process, and fidelity assessment,

📌 Regional Manager, Program Training (México)
🏢 Covenant House International
📍 México