CAPE Project Peer Educator

Position Information

Position Title CAPE Project Peer Educator Department Office of Campus Advocacy, Prevention, and Education

Job Location Crete, NE (68333) Supervisor

Jaden Hilkemann

CAPE Director

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 (see below) 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.

CAPE Project Mission and Values:

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.

General Description and Duties

* 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 training - Student Leader Summit on Sunday, April 26, 2026

Special Skills or Knowledge Required

Qualifications Required for Position:

* Passion for ending interpersonal violence

* Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

* Public speaking and communication skills

* Critical thinking and analytical skills

* Comfortable in emotionally complex situations

* Understand the importance of maintaining privacy

* If you have previously experienced an incident of interpersonal violence, you have taken measures of self-care and closure

* Strong relationships within the Doane community

* Available weekends and evenings (scheduling is flexible)

Training Required for Position:

* Peer Educators must complete mandatory training that increases their understanding of the complexities of interpersonal violence on college campuses.

* Peer Educators must be available the week before the start of Fall Term 2026 for training.

* Initial service months will be monitored closely. PEs must be committed to program fidelity.

* Background in social…