The Program Coordinator is a full-time, 12-month position within the Survivor Advocacy and Foundational Education (SAFE) Center reporting to the Director of SAFE. The Program Coordinator supports the development, coordination, facilitation, and evaluation of prevention education and outreach initiatives focused on interpersonal violence prevention, consent education, healthy relationships, bystander intervention, and student well-being.
The Program Coordinator shares responsibility for supporting the mission of the SAFE Center through the implementation of educational programs, outreach initiatives, campus collaborations, and student engagement efforts. This position also supports awareness campaigns, educational materials, and prevention-focused programming for students, faculty, and staff.
There are two Program Coordinator positions within the SAFE Center. While both positions share core responsibilities related to prevention education and outreach, one position will have an emphasis in social media management, graphic design, and digital communications, while the other position will have an emphasis in masculinity-focused prevention programming and student engagement.
This position will supervise and mentor student staff and peer educators supporting SAFE Center prevention education, outreach, and engagement efforts and will become trained as a confidential victim advocate but will not operate in a confidential capacity.
1. Prevention Education & Program Facilitation
Develop, coordinate, and facilitate educational programs and workshops focused on interpersonal violence prevention, consent, healthy relationships, bystander intervention, and student support resources for students, faculty, and staff.
2. Campus Outreach & Partnership Development
Build and maintain collaborative relationships with campus and community partners, including student organizations, Fraternity & Sorority Life, Athletics, Housing & Dining Services, and other university departments to support prevention education efforts.
3. Student Staff Supervision & Mentorship
Assist with the recruitment, training, scheduling, supervision, and mentorship of student staff and peer educators supporting SAFE Center programming and outreach initiatives.
4. Program Planning, Assessment & Data Tracking
Support program planning, outreach coordination, data collection, learning outcome assessment, and reporting efforts to evaluate program effectiveness and campus engagement.
5. Social Media, Marketing & Educational Materials
Create and manage educational content, promotional materials, social media campaigns, newsletters, and outreach resources that support SAFE Center initiatives and awareness efforts.
6. Masculinity-Focused Prevention Programming
Develop and facilitate programming and engagement opportunities focused on healthy masculinity, relationship skills, leadership development, and violence prevention for men and masculine-identifying students.
7. Victim Advocacy Training & Collaborative Support
Successfully complete confidential victim advocacy training within six months of hire and collaborate with the SAFE Center Advocacy team to support prevention education, outreach efforts, and campus awareness initiatives related to interpersonal violence prevention and survivor support.
8. Other Duties as Assigned
Perform other duties as assigned in support of SAFE Center operations, programs, outreach efforts, and campus initiatives.
Bachelor’s degree in education, communication, public relations, psychology, social sciences, human services, student affairs, marketing, higher education, or a related field.
Demonstrated understanding of interpersonal violence prevention, consent education, healthy relationships, and/or student support services in a higher education setting.
Demonstrated experience facilitating presentations, trainings, workshops, outreach initiatives, or educational programs for various audiences.
Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships and work effectively within a team environment while managing multiple projects and responsibilities.
Available to work evenings and weekends as necessary to meet the needs of students and campus programs.
Experience creating and managing social media content, graphic design projects, newsletters, or marketing campaigns using platforms such as Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar software.
Experience developing and facilitating prevention education, peer education, leadership development, or masculinity-focused programming.
Experience supervising, mentoring, or training student staff, interns, volunteers, or peer educators.
Experience with program assessment, data collection, learning outcomes, and reporting.
Experience collaborating with campus partners including Athletics, Fraternity & Sorority Life, Housing & Dining Services, or student organizations.
Experience working in higher education, advocacy, prevention education, student engagement, or related settings.
Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Experience creating and managing digital communications such as Instagram content, newsletters, social media campaigns, or other outreach materials is preferred.
Pre-employment Criminal Background Check required for new hires.
Successfully complete confidential victim advocacy training within six months of hire.
Evening and weekend work required as necessary to support programming and student needs.
This position operates in a professional office and campus environment and includes program facilitation, outreach activities, event coordination, and collaboration with students, faculty, staff, and community partners.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in education, communication, public relations, psychology, social sciences, human services, student affairs, marketing, higher education, or a related field
- Understanding of interpersonal violence prevention, consent education, healthy relationships, and/or student support services in a higher education setting
- Experience facilitating presentations, trainings, workshops, outreach initiatives, or educational programs for various audiences
- Ability to build collaborative relationships and work effectively within a team while managing multiple projects and responsibilities
- Availability to work evenings and weekends as necessary
- Experience creating and managing social media content, graphic design projects, newsletters, or marketing campaigns using Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar software
- Experience developing and facilitating prevention education, peer education, leadership development, or masculinity-focused programming
- Experience supervising, mentoring, or training student staff, interns, volunteers, or peer educators
- Experience with program assessment, data collection, learning outcomes, and reporting
- Experience collaborating with campus partners, including Athletics, Fraternity and Sorority Life, Housing and Dining Services, or student organizations
- Experience working in higher education, advocacy, prevention education, student engagement, or related settings
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Experience creating and managing digital communications such as Instagram content, newsletters, social media campaigns, or other outreach materials
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