Program Facilitator (Pine Ridge, SD)

Description of Work

UNL has provided substantial funding to support the establishment of a Sexual Violence Prevention Center (SVPC) on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Critical to the success of this work are program instructors / research assistants. The individuals in this position will teach culturally-grounded, empowerment-based gender transformative programming (IMpower) to boys, girls, and trans and gender diverse (TGD) youth including Two Spirit Youth.

As such it is important that there be a good balance of cisgender men, cisgender women, and TGD / Two Spirit adults. These individuals will teach to thousands of youth on the Pine Ridge Reservation largely within schools but also in after-school settings as well, such as community centers.

Following implementation on Pine Ridge, these individuals will go to other tribal communities who wish to adapt and implement IMpower.

In addition to discussion-based teaching, much of the classes include practicing of verbal and physical self-defense skills, which will require holding up mitts and shields to take strikes and kicks, doing full-force interactions.

Selected candidates will receive training to teach these skills; for more information on the programming, visit AND

Individuals in this position will also provide support to the network referral system component of IMpower. When program instructors are not teaching in schools, they will assist with research tasks such as participant recruitment, enrollment, and retention;

data entry; community engagement events; dissemination; grant writing; doing community trainings, liaising with implementation partners in other communities, and other research and programmatic tasks as needed.

REPOSTING of position. While all applications will be accepted, due to the needs of the program, preference given to applicants who identify as female.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning 8 / 26 / 2024 and will continue until the position is filled.

The College of Education and Human Sciences respects people, ideas, voices, and perspectives. Diversity strengthens our ability to problem solve and build more equitable and inclusive solutions for complex challenges.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks to attract and retain a high performing and diverse workforce in which employees’ differences are respected and valued to better meet the varying needs of the diverse populations we serve.

The university fosters a diverse and inclusive work environment that promotes collaboration so that all individuals are able to participate and contribute to their full potential.

As an EO / AA employer, the University of Nebraska considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and / or political affiliation