Shatter Silence Peer Educator

Position Description

Title: Student Employee – Shatter the Silence Peer Educator

Campus: USC Upstate, Spartanburg, SC

Department: USC Upstate College/Division Level

Salary: $10-12/hour

Hours per week: 8 (as student’s class schedule allows)

Part/Full Time: Part Time

Position Summary: A peer educator provides education and support to their peers on a specific topic. Connect & Protect Peer Educators will 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 the three 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).
• 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.

Desired

Start Date:

08/10/2026

Job Close Date: 03/30/2026

EEO Statement: 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, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other bases under federal, state, local law, or regulations.