VIOLENCE Prevention Educator

We are currently recruiting for the 2026-2027 school year! Interviews will begin the week after finals and continue until positions are full.

The Phoenix Center at Auraria’s Violence Prevention Education (VPE) Program raises awareness and exposes myths and stereotypes of interpersonal violence through interactive workshops, outreach, social media, and events on campus.

Violence Prevention Educator

NOTE: 1) This position is available as an unpaid academic internship or as a paid work-study student employment position.

2) VPE’s do not provide direct advocacy services to PCA clients (VPE’s do not meet with clients or have case load).

Violence Prevention Educators (VPEs) are Auraria students who provide workshops on a variety of topics related to interpersonal violence (IPV). Workshops can be customized to run 60-90 minutes long so they can be easily implemented during a class period, staff meeting, or conference. They are interactive sessions and intend to engage the folks in the discussion of these difficult issues. VPEs also conduct campus outreach and help plan and facilitate campus events to educate folks about IPV and its intersecting issues.

Onboarded undergraduate and graduate prevention educators will be trained to provide consistent, thorough information about relationship violence, sexual violence, and stalking, and related topics to the Auraria campus community. They will be involved in the design of prevention and education programs and their implementation.

Prevention Educators will actively engage in campus awareness activities, classroom presentations, orientations, social media content, and educational presentations to various campus groups.  Prevention Education Interns must be self-starters and able to fulfill their hours with little direction.

We are looking for flexible and committed individuals who are dedicated to the cause. Prevention Educators will develop presentation, facilitation, and leadership skills through participation in this opportunity.  We serve the University of Colorado Denver, the Community College of Denver and Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Reports to: Violence Prevention Education Program Manager

To apply: Email cover letter, resume, and completed VPE Position Application (below) to Racheal.reed-maloney@ucdenver.edu.

*NEW AS OF 2026

Violence Prevention Educator: Social Media & Marketing

NOTE: 1) This position is available as an unpaid academic internship or as a paid work-study student employment position.

2) VPESSMs do not provide direct advocacy services to PCA clients (VPE’s do not meet with clients or have case load) and do not provide prevention education workshops.

This is a new branch of the VPE program the PCA is exploring to better support the VPE programs goals with expanding education access on campus.

Onboarded undergraduate VPESSMs will be trained to provide consistent, thorough information about relationship violence, sexual violence, stalking, and related topics to the Auraria campus community through physical and digital marketing materials. VPESSMM will conduct research about interpersonal violence to create bathroom signs, event flyers, blogs, social media posts, podcasts, and more.

Prevention Educators will actively engage in campus awareness activities, classroom presentations, orientations, social media content, and educational presentations to various campus groups.  Prevention Education Interns must be self-starters and able to fulfill their hours with little direction.

We are looking for flexible and committed individuals who are dedicated to violence prevention work through education, marketing, and the creation of social media content. VPESSMM will develop research, marketing, accessibility considerations when creating marketing materials, media literacy, critical thinking, time-management, organizational, and leadership skills through participation in this internship/work-study position.

Reports to: Violence Prevention Education Program Manager

To apply: Email cover letter, resume, and completed VPE Position Application (below) to Racheal.reed-maloney@ucdenver.edu.