Youth and Community Educator

Busy but rewarding part-time contract for someone who is passionate about working with young people and ending child sexual exploitation.

ECPAT New Zealand is looking for a thoughtful, confident, and values-driven engagement facilitator to join our small team for a fixed-term role delivering our youth programme and frontline training programme.

This role sits at the intersection of prevention, education, and advocacy. You’ll be delivering workshops on preventing harm from child sexual exploitation, including online exploitation.  The work is varied, meaningful, and people-focused — and no two weeks look the same.

This is not a typical social work role. There’s no caseload and almost no clinical work. Instead, it’s about facilitation, connection, and confidently holding spaces for important conversations.

About the role

• Casual, part-time employment

• Approximately 10 hours per week on average (hours vary week to week)

• Fixed-term for approximately five months

• Auckland-based, with a mix of:

  • Remote work

  • Time in our Mount Eden office

  • Community-based delivery across Auckland and just outside the region

• Immediate start preferred

• Salary aligned with experience (approximately $35/hour)

• Aiming to grow the role and seek further funding to continue delivering our engagement programmes

What you’ll be doing

• Delivering and co-facilitating workshops for frontline workers (including social workers and youth workers)

• Supporting ECPAT's youth engagement programme with teenagers

• Creating safe, participatory environments where young people feel respected and heard

• Adapting your facilitation style for different audiences and settings

• Preparing for and following up on training delivery

• Working independently while being part of a supportive, values-driven NGO team

There may also be scope to support other areas of ECPAT’s work (such as advocacy or communications), depending on your interests and experience.

Who this role might suit

This role would suit someone who:

• Has a social work background or closely related training (qualified or currently studying)

• Is trauma-informed and comfortable working with sensitive content

• Has experience working with people affected by, or at risk of, child sexual abuse or exploitation

• Is confident facilitating groups and speaking to diverse audiences

• Builds rapport easily with young people

• Is self-directed, organised, and comfortable working with minimal hand-holding

• Is looking for flexible, meaningful work alongside study or other commitments

• Holds a New Zealand driver’s licence and has access to their own transport

We strongly encourage applications from Māori, Pasifika, and other minority communities, and from people with lived experience of trafficking or sexual exploitation.

Why work with ECPAT New Zealand?

• You’ll be part of a small, committed NGO working on issues that matter

• You’ll be trusted with real responsibility from day one

• You’ll gain hands-on experience across youth engagement, training delivery, and advocacy

• You’ll work in a flexible, human-centred environment that takes wellbeing seriously

Please send your cv and cover letter to info@ecpat.org.nz

We will begin interviews in mid February and may fill the position once a suitable candidate is found.