Community Education Speaker
HybridPalo Alto, California, United States
Job Summary
Deliver engaging presentations, workshops, and trainings to diverse community audiences including parents, educators, school staff, and youth-serving professionals while representing CHC at events, conferences, and on our podcast. Develop slide decks, research-informed articles, and video content for digital and in-person delivery, collaborating with internal teams to ensure materials are mission-aligned. Adapt communication styles for varying groups and facilitate Q&A sessions with confidence, gathering feedback to refine educational offerings. Act as an expert speaker for donor events and participate in panels as a subject matter specialist. This part-time role involves varying hours, potential evening or weekend events, and local travel from the Palo Alto, CA campus.
Required Qualifications
- Active professional license in a relevant field (e.g., LCSW, MFT, LPC, school psychologist, licensed educational specialist, or equivalent)
- Expertise in learning differences (including executive function)
- Comfort, experience and expertise in speaking and presenting to various audiences
- Adept with using technology as tool and resource
- Clinical Experience: Meaningful direct experience working with children, teens, and/or young adults, with a genuine enthusiasm for this population
- Specialized Knowledge: Demonstrated expertise in youth and adolescent mental health, learning differences (e.g., ADHD, dyslexia, learning disabilities), executive function development and DBT skills
- Communication Skills: Proven ability to take clinical or research-based concepts and present them in language that is clear, warm, and accessible to non-clinical audiences; exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Public Speaking: Comfortable, engaging, and credible presenting to community audiences such as parents, educators, or school communities — on stage and on camera; experience in panel facilitation and/or media appearances
- Content Creation: Experience developing educational materials including slide decks, written content, and/or video
- Collaboration: Ability to work effectively within a team and alongside colleagues across departments
- Planning & Organization: detail oriented, organized, effective time manager
- Lifelong Learner: Open to learning, growing
- Community based work: Experience working within or alongside school systems, districts, or community-based organizations serving youth and/or parents
- Ability to work extensively with interpersonal interactions with peers and outside contacts
Desired Qualifications
- Bilingual in Spanish highly desired
- Part-time, with varying hours depending on requests for speakers
- There may be evening, morning and weekend events
- More frequent evenings and/or weekends events may take place in spring and fall seasons
- The position is based out of our Palo Alto, CA campus, with flexibility for hybrid work
- Speaking events will require travel within the local community and surrounding areas
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