What are the responsibilities and job description for the CAPE Project Peer Educator position at doane?
Fall 2025 - Spring 2026The 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 relationship 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.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.RespectIndividual 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.InclusionWe 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.LeadershipWe 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.EducationWe 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.EmpowermentWe 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.ImpactWe 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.The CAPE Project seeks to build a team across gender and sexuality spectrums and includes students of color, religious diversity, and different ability levels. We actively pursue a team that can bring diverse perspectives to the table and encourage individuals who may not meet every qualification to apply.
