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Safe Passage Team Lead (The Intersection of Equity in Education and Transportation)

Go Together, Inc.
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 “There’s work and there’s your life’s work. The kind of work that has your fingertips all over it. The kind of work that you would never compromise on. That you’d sacrifice a weekend for.”  
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The Safe Passage Team Lead is critical to Go Together, Inc.'s success as partner with DC Deputy Mayor of Education Strategic Initiative team and Mayor Bowser's Safe Passage Program.

What is Safe Passage?
Safe Passage is a district wide effort that focuses on three areas:

  • Safe Passage transportation and travel between home, school, and related activities;
  • Violence prevention in communities focused on better understanding why youth are experiencing violence, who the violence perpetrators are, and what can be done to prevent violence; and 
  •  Safety in schools: the ongoing programming during and after school to make students feel safe in the school building
DC Safe Passage is about more than providing safe routes to school—it includes neighborhood safety and school safety as well.

National Best Practices undergirding DME's Safe Passage Program

The 6 E’s
Education
  • Increase safety training for youth
  • Increase parent and community education about Safe Passage programs
  • Increase civic engagement training for all community residents
  • Increase training of gang intervention workers
Evaluation
  • Community participatory research crime-data mapping
  • Community stakeholder surveys, interviews, and focus groups
  • Community-engaged asset mapping
  • Student-engaged hot spot mapping
Engineering
  • Utilize Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) strategies
  • Improve the physical appearance of the environment
  • Increase access to low-cost public transit for students
  • Increase signage promoting safe school zones and safe haven businesses and organizations
  • Increase safety of school facilities through better lighting and use of natural surveillances
Enforcement
  • Increase community and parental presence
  • Increase usage of trained community-based safe passage workers
  • Increase training for law enforcement personnel
  • Increase law enforcement capacity specifically dedicated to Safe Passage
  • Listen if students (particularly BIPOC) are feeling unsafe or uncomfortable with police presence
Encouragement
  • Provide incentive programs for volunteers
  • Train parents
  • Establish safe spots
  • Link academic programs and curricula to safety goals
  • Create staggered arrival and dismissal times
  • Tailor public bus and school bus schedules to prevent situations of potential conflict and injury
  • Establish supervised walking school buses and bike trains to support children traveling through hotspot areas
Equity
  • Create access and ensure safe and equitable outcomes for low-income communities, communities of color, and everyone else

As the Safe Passage Team Lead, you will:
  • Participate in meetings and events with Go Together, Inc. CEO with the Deputy Mayor of Education Strategic Initiative (DMESI) team to ensure we contribute and execute on activities that align with Safe Passage Program.
  • Research solutions and collaborate with partners to get data to develop strategies for Go Together, Inc. to deliver the highest value to DMESI.
  • Manage the weekly communications and deliverables between DMESI and Go Together, Inc.
  • Work with Go Together, Inc team members (Tech, Customer Success and Exec) to create awareness of DMESI initiatives, develop strategies to execute the deliverables and communicate results and feedback from DMESI.
  • Capture key wins that can be communicated externally


You're great for our team if:
  • You see yourself as just what a leader needs to be the best at what they’re doing.
  • You have the experience, can do a great job getting things done and leave a reliable trail of how you got things done.
  • You enjoy lots of variety in your work and enthusiastically will perform routine and complex clerical and administrative tasks with clarity and on time.
  • You want to contribute to helping all students to receive a high quality education and help leverage our technology to remove transportation barriers for their safe arrival and dismissals.

The best team members are:
  • Enjoy dynamic work experiences and energized by being part of creating something new.
  • Outgoing, friendly personality with excellent people skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Organization is your forte, you problem solve for any situation and can multitask like a wiz 1-3 years of direct phone support experience
  • Proven success in a position handling conflict resolution
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint
  • Stickler for time and closing loops
  • Previous experience at a startup is a plus.
  • Bachelors or Associate technical degree or equivalent of 4 years of work experience in a related discipline

You wouldn’t be a great match for us if you:
  • Need lots of structure to work
  • Don’t work well in remote work setting
  • You need to be in the same space as your team
  • Think apps are bothersome
  • Aren’t ready to contribute and create your own mark on CarpooltoSchool that the industry and markets across the country.