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Sexual Violence Prevention Educator

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Senior Level
Part-Time

About the role

Staff - Non Union

Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Administration, Level C Job Title Sexual Violence Prevention Educator Department UBCO | Prevention and Education | Sexual Violence Prevention Office Compensation Range $7,851.50 - $12,243.25 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Posting End Date

July 31, 2026 Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

March 31, 2028 This position is expected to be filled by promotion/reassignment and is included here to inform you of its vacancy at the University. At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office is a confidential place for those what have been impacted by sexual or gender based violence, harassment or harm. Our response services include both individual and group support and advocacy. SVPRO also have a multi-faceted educational program (i.e, outreach, event planning, panel participation, presentation, Q&A sessions, workshops or training and consultation) which strives toward attitudinal, behaviour, social and systemic change. The Sexual Violence Prevention Educator leads campus-wide sexual violence prevention education strategies that promote a culture of consent by addressing attitudes and behaviours that support rape culture to create an inclusive environment for diverse populations of UBC faculty, staff, and students. This position is responsible for planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating sexual violence prevention education and training initiatives that support the successful implementation of UBC's Sexualized Violence and Sexual Misconduct Policy. The Sexual Violence Prevention Educator collaborates with UBC faculty, staff, students, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure that prevention education strategies are integrated and coordinated across campus units, departments, programming, and practices.

Organizational Status

The Sexual Violence Prevention Educator reports to the Director, SVPRO and works collaboratively as a member of a team of professionals, leading the development and implementation of education and training initiatives. The Sexual Violence Prevention Educator collaborates with UBC faculty, staff, students, and other relevant stakeholders to integrate and coordinate education and training initiatives across campus.

Work Performed

Develops and implements a campus-wide sexual violence prevention education strategy that promotes a culture of consent by addressing attitudes and behaviours that support rape culture to create an inclusive environment for diverse populations of UBC faculty, staff and students.

Develops and implements a comprehensive education and training plan for the UBC Community about sexual violence, including prevention and response, in cooperation with UBC faculty, staff, students, and other relevant stakeholders.

Provides education and training about sexual violence and related issues including UBC's Sexual Misconduct Policies and other relevant policies including, the Discrimination Policy, the Retaliation Policy and the At-Risk Behaviour Policy.

Provides education and training related to new issues arising in the field of sexualized violence response and prevention to individuals, units, and departments involved in responding to disclosures of sexualized violence.

Designs and delivers training curriculum and materials about sexualized violence and related issues, utilizing multiple online and offline channels tailored to the needs of specific audiences including UBC faculty, staff, and students.

Coordinates educational programs, projects, and special events related to sexualized violence prevention.

Implements and monitors social media strategies

Oversees social media channels, creates videos, revises information of print and digital resources for various audients Develops and implements strategies, processes, plans, and programs that promote evidence-based approaches to sexualized violence response and prevention education.

Recruits, trains, and supports faculty, staff, and students to provide peer-led prevention education and training.

Consults and collaborates with individuals, community groups, professional organizations, post-secondary educational institutions, government, and other partners to develop and deliver post-secondary education on sexualized violence response and prevention.

Organizes and assists in the policy implementation committee

Develops, supports, encourages, and promotes provincial, national, and international programs relevant to the position and to post-secondary institutions, in collaboration with other post-secondary educational institutions, off-campus agencies, and government departments.

Designs and conducts evaluation to assess performance of sexual violence education and training programs. Collects, analyzes, interprets, and reports on results and progress towards goals.

Creates, disseminates, and compiles results of campus climate surveys.

Performs other duties as required.

Consequence of Error/Judgement

Exercises professional judgement in the provision of sexualized violence prevention education, and acts as a cooperative team member in the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office. Poor professional judgment or practice may create undue hardship for prospective and current students, faculty, staff and visitors to UBC and/or serious public relations or legal liability for the University.

Supervision Received

Works independently within University policies and procedures, and relevant Federal and Provincial legislation. Works within a collegial model of consultation and collaboration, under the direction of the Director, Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office.

Supervision Given

May supervise project staff, practicum students, student employees and volunteers

Minimum Qualifications

Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline. Minimum of five years of related experience, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.

  • Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own
  • Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion

Preferred Qualifications

Graduate degree in a relevant discipline preferred. A minimum of 5 years of experience developing education strategies and programming. Relevant lived experience as a person from an under-represented background in the workplace environment, is preferred. Equivalent combination of lived experience, education, training and work experience will be strongly considered. Ability to develop and implement sexualized violence prevention education that recognizes the diversity of survivor’s experience due to sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, radicalization, age, family status, religion, faith, ability, disability, national or ethnic origin, Indigeneity, immigration status, socioeconomic status, class and language. Experience providing sexualized violence prevention education in a post-secondary or in the anti-violence field setting for diverse audiences using multiple platforms. Experience in evaluating program delivery and impact.

Demonstrated cultural humilities and intercultural communication skills to support work with a diverse community. Ability to consider intercultural differences and adapt learning and communication approaches as necessary. Excellent oral and written communication, public speaking and presenting skills. Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills with diverse stakeholders to achieve common goal. Ability to design and implement organizational change initiatives, anticipate challenges, solve problems and deliver results. Ability to plan ahead, direct the work of others, and ensure deadlines are met. Ability to take direction, lead others and to function as an effective team member. Ability to manage projects and multi task while paying attention to details. Excellent computer skills including working knowledge of MS Office Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Some evening and weekend work may be required, as well as some travel.

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