Shatter Silence Peer Educator

Job Title: Student Employee – Peer Educator

Location: USC Upstate, Spartanburg, SC

Salary: $10-12/hour (Part/Full Time – 8 hours per week)

A peer educator provides education and support to their peers on a specific topic. Connect & Protect Peer Educators focus their efforts on the issues of Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (DVDVSAS). Peer Educators are students helping other students promote change on campus.

• Become a NASPA-certified Peer Educator.
• Complete training on DVDVSAS prevention best practices.
• Co-facilitate Bystander Intervention and/or Healthy Relationships presentations to University 101 classes and student organizations.
• Plan and implement events, tabling, and programs during 3 awareness months.
• Help create an inclusive, safe campus environment where survivors receive quality services and offenders are held accountable.
• Enhance your communication skills.

• Demonstrated commitment to ending DVDVSAS, recognizing intersectionality, and inclusion of underserved populations (men, students with disabilities, LGBTQ+ students, and students from immigrant communities).
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Interest in learning more about DVDVSAS issues.
• Readiness to model bystander intervention and healthy relationship behaviors to your peers.
• Ability to be a Peer Educator for at least two semesters.
• GPA of 2.5 or higher.
• Ability to work up to 8 hours a week.

The University of South Carolina does not discriminate in educational or employment opportunities or decisions for qualified persons on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, disability, ethnicity, familial status, gender (including transgender), gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV/AIDs status, military status, national origin, pregnancy (false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, childbirth, recovery therefrom or related medical conditions, breastfeeding), race, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other bases under federal, state, local law, or regulations.