We seek dedicated, compassionate, and dynamic people to join our Instructor Team as we:
Applications for Lead Instructor are currently open. Additional information and application instructions are available here.
Applications for Suited Instructor are currently open. Additional information and application instructions are available here.
All instructors are part of a mixed-gender woman-led instructor team. Instructors are needed to work part-time on a varied schedule that includes weekday, evening, and weekend hours. Once training is completed, all in-class time is paid.
Lead Instructors
In each course, Lead Instructors facilitate and plan content, demonstrate and teach the self-defense tools presented, and act as coach and referee during simulated scenarios presented.
Qualifications:
Suited Instructors
Suited instructors play the role of an aggressor in simulated scenarios through which students learn both verbal and physical skills. Suited instructors wear customized full-body armor to ensure students’ and their safety in scenarios where students defend themselves by striking as hard as they can.
Qualifications:
- support others to find their power, develop their confidence, and enhance their safety
- work toward a non-violent world in which all people can live safely and with dignity
Applications for Lead Instructor are currently open. Additional information and application instructions are available here.
Applications for Suited Instructor are currently open. Additional information and application instructions are available here.
All instructors are part of a mixed-gender woman-led instructor team. Instructors are needed to work part-time on a varied schedule that includes weekday, evening, and weekend hours. Once training is completed, all in-class time is paid.
Lead Instructors
In each course, Lead Instructors facilitate and plan content, demonstrate and teach the self-defense tools presented, and act as coach and referee during simulated scenarios presented.
Qualifications:
- Physical endurance, mobility, fitness, concentration, and focus
- An understanding of sexual assault, violence against women and other populations, and how gender affects sexual assault and self-defense
- Significant experience with most of the following:
- Teaching
- Facilitating
- Group leadership
- Public speaking
- Counseling or trauma/crisis work
- Physical activity and generating power
Suited Instructors
Suited instructors play the role of an aggressor in simulated scenarios through which students learn both verbal and physical skills. Suited instructors wear customized full-body armor to ensure students’ and their safety in scenarios where students defend themselves by striking as hard as they can.
Qualifications:
- Ability to teach a physically demanding curriculum
- Excellent physical condition with experience in martial arts, contact sports, or other intensive physical activity.
- Ability and willingness to provide support to students in a training process that is sometimes difficult and emotionally charged
- Ability and willingness to play the role of an aggressor in simulated attack scenarios
- Reliable access to a vehicle and cell phone
