Careers with Resilience

Case Management Specialist (Bilingual, English/Spanish)
Click here to view the job posting. To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter to our Hiring Team at jobs@ourresilience.org. No phone calls, please.

Director of Education & Training
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Prevention Educator, Austin Location (Bilingual, English/Spanish)
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Established in 1974, Resilience now serves over 2000 survivors of sexual violence and their loved ones annually through our main office in downtown Chicago and our community‐based offices in Austin and Ravenswood, and several co-locations within partner organizations across the city. Persons of color and LGBTQ+ persons are encouraged to apply. Resilience is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability in its procedures and policies.

Internships with Resilience

Resilience’s Trauma Therapy Team is now accepting internship applications for the 2023-2024 school year.  If you will be in a 2nd year grad program for counseling, consider applying for an internship with us.  Please view the position description here and send your resume and cover letter to Renee Miranda-Beristain (she/her), the Clinical and Internship Supervisor.  Spanish-speaking candidates strongly encouraged to apply!

Resilience’s Advocacy Team is now accepting internship applications for the 2023-2024 school year. If you are interested in providing advocacy services to survivors including assistance and support in navigating criminal and civil legal systems, consider applying for an internship with us. Please view the position description here and send your resume and cover letter to Sami Altman (she/her), the Legal Advocacy Internship Supervisor.  Spanish-speaking candidates strongly encouraged to apply!

Please check back for additional postings as they become available.

General Information

Each year Resilience offers internships in our Advocacy, Trauma Therapy, Education & Training, and Development departments, as well as with OurMusicMyBody.

With the exception of the Development & Communications Intern, all of our interns are required to complete a minimum of 40 hours of sexual assault crisis intervention training in accordance with the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault mandates. You must complete this training prior to or within a month of beginning your internship. Resilience offers this training at least 4 times a year. The schedule is available here. There is no cost for the training if you are accepted into the internship program. Training is approximately 5 weeks long, in the evenings. There may be other training options available on a case-by-case basis.

With the exception of the Development department, most internships at Resilience are a minimum of a one-year commitment. Resilience does not hire summer interns. Our internship cycle runs July 1 to June 30. Occasionally, we may be able to work around different internship needs or academic requirements on a case by case basis. Preference may be given to those who have completed the training prior to starting an internship with Resilience. Resilience accepts non-academic interns by exception. Trauma Therapy Intern applicants must be enrolled in a Master’s-level program to be eligible for an internship within this program.