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Women's Center receives funding to create new position

Seeks to hire new coordinator for outreach and education

<p>The Women's Center will hire a new coordinator for outreach and education within the Gender Violence and Social Change (GVSC) program.</p>

The Women's Center will hire a new coordinator for outreach and education within the Gender Violence and Social Change (GVSC) program.

The University is hiring a new outreach coordinator position in the Women’s Center Gender Violence and Social Change program to work on public relations and education efforts in an effort to promote solutions against gender-based violence on Grounds.

GVSC Director Claire Kaplan said the coordinator will contribute to existing programs but also work to establish new programs.

“She or he will have two primary responsibilities,” Kaplan said in an email. “Running the Men’s Leadership Project, which is a mentoring program for college men and middle school boys with a prevention and positive masculinity focus, [and co-leading] Survivor Support Network trainings, which offer in-depth workshops for faculty, staff and students on the dynamics of gender based violence, the impact of trauma, and how to refer survivors to appropriate resources.”

The Women’s Center is conducting a national search for qualified candidates to fill the position. Women’s Center Director Leigh Anne Carver said in an email that the Center is looking for a someone with experience in the fields of gender violence prevention and college student interactions, with a focus on college men.

“We are looking for someone with experience working on issues of gender-based violence in a college setting [and] experience in working on diversity and intersecting issues of gender/race/class/sexuality; an understanding of masculinity theory and psychology of men, college student development, and engaging college men in leadership and mentoring,” Carver said.

The Center has pushed for the addition of an outreach coordinator for years, and they are excited to have more permanent funding now, Kaplan said.

“A grant funded this position for one and a half years, but when the funding ran out, the position was eliminated due to lack of any other funding,” she said.

Both the Women’s Leadership Council and University administrators helped the Center to secure the funding, Kaplan said.

Kaplan said that the Center hopes adding more positions and initiating more programs which advocate against gender-based violence will better enable the Center to help University students and community members.

“The more staff we have who are dedicated to creating change at U.Va., the more successful we will be,” she said.

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