CAPE Project Peer Educator

Please see Special Instructions for more details.

• March 6, 2026 – Applications Due (Priority Review)
• March 13, 2026 – Extended Application Date
• March 22 – April 3, 2026 – Interviews Take Place
• April 9, 2026 – Notifications Sent
• April 26, 2026 – Mandatory Student Leadership Summit

Position Title

Department

Department Office of Campus Advocacy, Prevention, and Education

Job Location

Purpose of Job

The CAPE Project Peer Educators are ambassadors for the Campus Advocacy, Prevention, and Education Project. They will live the CAPE Project mission and values in their role and everyday life. After comprehensive training, peer educators will provide education on campus about healthy relationships and sexuality behaviors, healthy masculinity, positive bystander intervention, conflict resolution skills, and how to support survivors of interpersonal violence, among other topics.

They will assist in the coordination of awareness events and other prevention and education activities.

The CAPE Project seeks to build a team across campus involvement, gender, and sexuality spectrums and includes students of color, religious diversity, and different ability levels. We actively pursue a team that can bring different perspectives to the table and encourage individuals who may not meet every qualification to apply.

• A. Mission The CAPE Project for Doane University will shift our campus cultures to those free from interpersonal violence through collaboration with students, faculty, staff, and all broader campus communities to embrace survivor-centered, trauma-informed practices; enhance systems of community response for incidents of interpersonal violence; and adopt inclusive interpersonal violence prevention and education programs.
• Respect Individual thoughts and experiences are recognized as worthy and of value. We recognize people’s dignity and maintain their confidentiality. We agree to respect people in our community as well as organizations that are also striving for the betterment of the community.
• Inclusion We aspire to embrace the diversity of all faculty, staff, and students from each of our campuses. Within those communities, we will seek inclusion of all marginalized communities, allowing their experiences to inform our choices and programs, and providing safety from the harm of revictimization.
• Leadership We aspire to develop courageous leaders on campus. Individuals who are not only a member of our Coordinated Community Response Team, but those who have a vested interest in ending interpersonal violence on campus. By creating and engaging new leaders, we will expand our influence for creating a campus cultural shift.
• Education We agree to focus our efforts on educating our students, faculty, and staff of our mission and values. Through various practices and while reaching out to different groups on campus and beyond, we will provide the intellectual and practical tools needed to prevent interpersonal violence on campus.
• Empowerment We encourage students, faculty, and staff to take initiative and act to solve problems of interpersonal violence. By acting in accordance with the mission and values of CAPE, we want to embrace an atmosphere where community members can make decisions and take responsibility for the decisions they have made.
• Impact We strive to make a lasting impression in the culture of all Doane University campuses. We hope to create a positive change in the culture that will show the value of all persons in our community and allow them to participate in their educational experience to the fullest.

• Facilitate training and discussions using an intersectional, trauma-informed, survivor-centered lens
• Distribute, collect, and input evaluations
• Plan and coordinate educational/awareness events
• Attend events regularly
• Attend weekly staff meetings
• Actively lead outreach and education
• Participate in the design and implementation of new programs and sustainability measures
• Participate in the Doane University Coordinated Community Response Team
• Be a leader and resource on campus for students in need at all times.
• Attend the required…