Part-time Suited Self-defense Instructor

1 week ago

Boston, United States Impact Boston Full time

**IMPACT is hiring**

**We are looking for a part-time Suited Self-Defense Instructor.**

**Please read on for descriptions of each position and how to apply.**

IMPACT Boston is a nationally recognized abuse and violence prevention organization that gives people practical skills to keep themselves and others safe. Sometimes best known for teaching realistic self-defense, IMPACT’s programs also include education on healthy relationships, internet safety, challenging conversations, and bystander intervention. We also work with schools and organizations IMPACT to develop policies and cultures that proactively prevent abuse.

**We are looking for team members who are committed to social, racial, disability, and gender justice, and who are excited about helping IMPACT begin this new chapter. **The IMPACT workplace values trauma-informed practices, shared decision making, work/life balance, direct communication, flexibility, creativity, humor, hard work, compassion, and a strong commitment to our mission. We are committed to supporting the health and wellbeing of employees through practices such as support from a trained therapist that employees can access during their regular paid workday.

**PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY**

**SUITED SELF-DEFENSE INSTRUCTOR FOR IMPACT, A FULL-CONTACT, TRAUMA-INFORMED EMPOWERMENT SELF-DEFENSE PROGRAM**

**Variable Schedule, some weekday daytime availability is strongly preferred**

IMPACT Boston is a nationally recognized abuse and violence prevention organization that teaches empowerment self-defense. Our curriculum presents students with realistic scenarios of threat, intimidation and imminent danger. Our organizational philosophy emphasizes abuse prevention, healing, empowerment, social justice, and trauma awareness.

IMPACT teaches adults, teens and children of all genders, and has specific programs for people with disabilities, abuse survivors, LGBTQ people, women of color, frontline human service workers, high school, and middle school students. Research on graduates of IMPACT shows that the training reduces symptoms of PTSD in survivors of child abuse and domestic violence and that it increases students’ self-efficacy and self-confidence.

IMPACT is hiring suited instructors to teach self-defense classes as part of a mixed gendered teaching team. In IMPACT’s training model, suited instructors play a unique role that involves both teaching physical and verbal skills and portraying a realistic assailant in simulated attack scenarios with students.

Suited instructors wear full body armor specifically designed to protect them in scenarios in which students strike as hard as they can.

Instructors are needed to work part-time on a varied schedule that includes weekday daytime hours and involves travel that is mostly within Eastern Massachusetts with occasional trips to Western Massachusetts and other New England states. Mileage is reimbursed.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability and willingness to teach a physically demanding curriculum
- Ability and willingness to be emotionally supportive and encourage each student to take on the level of challenge that is right for them
- Good physical condition—experience in contact sports, martial arts or other physically demanding activity is preferred
- Ability and willingness to play the role of an aggressor in simulated attack scenarios
- Some experience with teaching, acting, public speaking, counseling, martial arts, athletics, youth development, or work with trauma survivors
- Reliability
- Experience working with teens and middle school students or strong willingness to teach self-defense to young people
- Availability during weekday daytime hours is preferred

Compensation is $30-50 per hour for teaching and $18.40 per hour for training and administrative work, plus mileage reimbursement for off-site classes.

**Job Type**: Part-time

Pay: $30.00 - $50.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Flexible schedule

Work Location: In person

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