Join Our Consent Café Team

The Consent Café is adding to their team!

The Consent Café Team is seeking one Consent Café Program Assistant, and multiple Consent Café Mentors in order to support the implementation of a pilot Consent Café program with all grade 8 students in SD73.

The Consent Café is an activity-based consent education, communication, and sexualized violence prevention and response program for youth and young adults. Our overarching goal is to introduce and reinforce rights-based consent literacy and sexualized violence prevention early to ensure youth transitioning from high-school to post-secondary (TRU) or high school to the workforce have this critical knowledge. The Consent Café works because we meet participants “where they are at”, where they learn, and where they are navigating consent every day. Our curriculum and Consent Mentors are relational and capacity building, peer and community supported, reflexive, strengths-based, and trauma-informed.

Volunteer Consent Café Program Assistant

The Consent Café team is hiring a volunteer Consent Café Program Assistant to support the implementation of a pilot Consent Café program with all grade 8 students in SD73. Volunteers will be remunerated with an honorarium for their time and effort.

The successful applicant will have various duties, including, but not limited to:

• Liaising with SD73/agency representatives to ensure that each site has the required room and supplies available before each Consent Café
• Participating as a Consent Mentor at each Consent Café (facilitating small group dialogue sessions with youth about communication, consent, relationships, and violence)
• Maintaining the Consent Café social media sites
• Curriculum development and facilitation of content as needed
• Curation of grounding kits
• Ensuring program supplies are coordinated and ready for each Consent Café
• Supporting the coordination and implementation of Consent Café participant art gallery exhibit entitled ‘My Consenting Self’
• Representing the Consent Café in the community

Application Requirements

• HUMS/BA/BSN/BSW or other related education (graduate student)
• Cleared vulnerable sectors criminal records check
• Comfort and capacity to facilitate discussions with youth about consent and sexualized violence prevention and response
• Previous sexualized violence prevention and response (SVPR) training is an asset, OR ability to participate in mandatory SVPR training
• Health promotion experience
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice
• Demonstrated relational skills, including strong written and oral communication skills
• Event planning experience is an asset (may consider hospitality experience)
• Access to vehicle/transportation
• Ability to attend Consent Café offerings from November 2022 – June 2023 during high school hours
• Interest in working with children and youth
• Experience working with children and youth and asset

Volunteer Consent Café Mentors

The Consent Café team is hiring volunteer Consent Café Mentors to support the implementation of a pilot Consent Café program with all grade 8 students in SD73. Consent Mentor volunteers will be remunerated with an honorarium for their time and effort.

Consent Mentors will have various duties, including, but not limited to:

• Meeting with the Consent Café team to review curriculum and their role during program delivery
• Setting up and taking down Consent Café's at various high school and community sites
• Facilitating small group dialogue with youth about communication, consent, relationships, and violence
• Communicating with Consent Café leaders if they are concerned about a student (or the content of the conversations)
• Representing the Consent Café in the community
• Actively engaging with the Consent Café team

Application Requirements

• Cleared vulnerable sectors criminal records check
• Comfort and capacity to facilitate discussions with youth about consent, communication, relationships, and sexualized violence prevention and response
• Demonstrated relational skills, including strong written and oral communication skills
• Commitment to consent education, health promotion, and social justice
• Previous sexualized violence prevention and response (SVPR) training is an asset, OR ability to participate in mandatory SVPR training
• Access to reliable vehicle/transportation
• Ability to attend some (not all) Consent Café offerings from November 2022 – June 2023 during high school hours
• Interest in working with children and youth
• Experience working with children and youth an asset