PAVE Peer Communications Coordinator

Job no: 508963
Position type: UW Student Jobs
Location: Partially Remote
Division/Equivalent: Division of Student Life
School/Unit: Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment (PAVE)
Categories: Interpersonal Communication, Leadership, Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Digital Technology, Teamwork/Collaboration, Professionalism/Work Ethic, Communications, Broadcasting, and Media Arts, Education and Training, Nonprofit/Community-Based Organization, Honoring Context and Culture

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Department Overview:

 Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE) is a student organization dedicated to preventing sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking through education and activism. We reach out to students through our interactive peer education workshops, volunteer and all-campus events, and awareness-raising campaigns.
Our vision is a campus community that practices healthy sexuality, expects and offers respect, and celebrates pleasure so enthusiastically that is incompatible with violence. Join us as we build a community on campus against the violence that empowers its members to be the change they want to see!

Anticipated Start Date:

 08/20/2025

Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):

  

Remote Work Eligibility Detail:

Partially Remote

 

Anticipated Hours Per Week:

 Minimum: 12

Schedule:

 Around 12 hours per week, flexible schedule. Weekly staff meetings required

Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:

 Minimum: $15.00 

Number of Positions:

 1

Qualifications:

 - Must be currently enrolled as a student at UW-Madison
- Exceptional organizational, verbal and written skills
- Solid commitment to PAVE’s mission statement and to ending sexual/domestic violence
- Knowledge of sexual assault, dating violence, and primary violence prevention strategies
- Willing to commit necessary time to the position in order to help the organization be successful in educating and informing the student body of sexual/domestic violence current events and how they affect the Madison community at large

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

- Experience in or deep interest in writing for publication, specifically on issues of sexual/domestic violence
- Experience with word processors, spreadsheets email and desktop publishing programs essential
- Preferred knowledge of Adobe programs (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) or willingness to attend available trainings on these programs
- Experience responding to reporters, developing talking points and working on public awareness campaigns preferred
- Comfortable working under deadlines

Position Summary/Job Duties:

- Writes editorials responding to local events/articles regarding sexual assault and dating/domestic violence, as well as to raise awareness and advertise for PAVE events.
- Works with PAVE members to do the same.
- Uses networking tools to build/maintain relationships with campus newspapers
- Works with student papers to encourage them to write about sexual assault in a way that supports and strengthens PAVE’s message
- Follows up with individual campus media reporters to discuss appropriate reporting techniques
- Provides editorial writing tips to PAVE staff and members
- Regularly utilizes the PAVE Blog to outreach to general campus as a medium to discuss topics relating to sexual violence in popular media
- Works with the Peer Education Coordinator to ensure that information about current events in the media regarding sexual assault and dating/domestic violence is passed along to Peer Education students and discussed as appropriate
- Primary control of maintenance and updating of the PAVE website and Facebook group with important current events in the media and starts discussion forums each week or as appropriate
- Leads efforts for awareness raising campaigns
Advertisement:
- In partnership with the Campus Outreach Coordinator, promotes and advertises PAVE events
- Creates newspaper advertisements and posters to promote PAVE events and services
- In partnership with the Volunteer and Peer Education Coordinators, heightens campus’ awareness of PAVE’s programs (facilitation services, Peer Education Program, facilitation training, and volunteer opportunities)
- Works with the Campus Outreach and Peer Education Coordinators to recruit students for the Peer Education Program
- Updates PAVE website

Physical Demands:

N/A

Institutional Statements:

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu

Accommodation Statement:

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
 
 

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