Interested in making a difference on campus? Become a Consent McGill Peer Educator to help raise awareness about consent education, sex positivity, healthy sexual relationships and sexual violence prevention at McGill.
The Peer Educator program is designed to empower students to become leaders for change at McGill. By developing and perfecting your communication, facilitation and event planning skills, you will directly contribute to creating a healthier, safer campus. Through a collaborative approach, Peer Educators get to work on meaningful projects and connect with folks who share similar interests.
The Peer Educator program will run throughout the 2024-2025 academic year, with a new training session taking place in September.
Peer educators can choose to focus on one of three areas:
1. Social media
These volunteers will help with OSVRSE’s Facebook and Instagram account. Tasks will include researching topics and relevant and up-to-date information, along with creating engaging posts to increase the office’s social media presence. Volunteers will also plan and organize class announcements, do postering, develop tabling themes and create tabling kits.
Qualifications
- Responsible, strong communication skills
- Possess anti-oppressive values
- Willing to learn more about sexual violence, consent, oppression, and intersectionality
- Experience with social media and online social media campaigns
- Able to work within a tight deadline
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- Possess strong written and analytical skills
- Graphic design skills are an asset
Position requirements
- Attend all volunteer meetings and volunteer training opportunities
- Review and submit an agreed upon number of social media posts per week
- Create introductions to articles for online materials
- Create visual graphics to promote events online
2. Events
These volunteers will be responsible for maintaining current OSVRSE events and developing new initiatives. Examples of past events include the #ConsentMcGill Campaign, the Sexual Health Fair and Trauma Sensitive Yoga classes. These volunteers often work in collaboration with different groups and services on campus and across the Montreal community. In this team, there is a lot of room to be creative and to put your planning skills to use!
Qualifications
- Possess anti-oppressive values
- Willing to learn more about sexual violence, consent, oppression, and intersectionality
- Comfortable working within a team and independently
- Experience with event planning, logistics coordination, managing peer events, multitasking, and doing promotion
- Able to work within a tight deadline
- Able to reflect on student needs and develop events and initiatives that best fit our campus
- Connections to various student groups on campus is an asset
Position requirements
- Attend all volunteer meetings and volunteer training opportunities
- Attend the events created
- Submit event ideas that reflect student needs
- Manage logistics and communication about event
3. Workshops
These volunteers will be responsible for facilitating the Becoming an Active Bystander and How to Respond to Disclosures workshops with student groups. Individuals interested in being a part of this stream must possess strong communication skills and enjoy speaking in front of large groups of people.
Qualifications
- Empathetic, non-judgmental, responsible, strong communication skills
- Passionate about consent education, sexual violence prevention work, and bystander intervention work
- Possess anti-oppressive values
- Willing to learn more about sexual violence, consent, oppression, and intersectionality
- Experience engaging in conversations about consent and sexual violence an asset
- Experience delivering workshops is an asset
Position requirements
- Attend all volunteer meetings and volunteer training opportunities
- Collaborate and participate in updating workshop content and design
- Manage logistics and communication around workshop delivery
Volunteer applications
Click here to apply for the 2024-2025 academic year.
We invite volunteer applicants of backgrounds and levels of experience with consent education and sexual violence prevention work to join us at OSVRSE!
