SARP Prevention Interns
SARP Prevention Interns collaborate with SARP staff to facilitate prevention programming and evaluation, develop social media and marketing strategies, and curate prevention content and materials.
Requirements
- Enrolled in a BU graduate program
- Commit up to a minimum of 12 hours per week (no more than 20 hours)
- Must be available Mondays from 12-2 for group supervision and team meeting
- Ability to work
Support
- Intensive Orientation
- Weekly supervision
- Paired facilitation
- Peer support
- Professional development
- Competitive Compensation
Qualifications
- Must be available in-person starting August 11th, 2026 (Including training)
- Enrolled in a graduate school full-time
- Ability to commit 12 hours/ week
- Interest in sexual violence prevention
- Experience working and collaborating on a team
- Ability and skills to commit to one prevention intern specialization for the year (See descriptions below).
Goals
- Facilitate Trainings and workshops that teach undergraduate students the skills to create a safer, violence-free campus.
- Create a space for professional development and goal setting for students in graduate degree programs.
General Duties
- Available as backup facilitator for trainings: Bystander intervention, Consent (YES! Consent & Sex Positivity), Healthy Relationships (This Dating Life), and Prevention as Student Leaders (Leading for Change)
- Data collection: Distribute and collect evaluations for each training session
- Anonymous feedback mechanisms to improve the PI experience
Application Process
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- Applications are closed for the 2026-2027 academic year.
- Email prevent@bu.edu if you have questions or concerns.
Statement of Encouragement
Students of color, international students, students with disabilities, and/or LGBTQ+ students are strongly encouraged to apply.
Intern Specializations
Research and Data Analysis
Review previous years’ surveys, report findings, provide recommendations for training updates (e.g,. new scenarios), and new curriculum development
- Analyze results from training evaluations weekly
- Create quarterly reports with suggestions for the application based on feedback from evaluations
- Research (as needed) different ways to apply feedback from evaluations
- Apply feedback from evaluations
- E.g. design scenarios for curriculum
- Design and analyze evaluations for events and activities in collaboration with appropriate interns and supervisor
- Research and compile information for new curriculum, modules, and activities based on SARP’s vision and goals for the year
Communications and Outreach
- Design materials as needed for outreach activities, such as awareness-building around incidents.
- Create a quarterly newsletter
- Develop informational “handouts”/one-pagers as needed for SARP training and services
- Develop four types of supplemental material to complement trainings and events (e.g., short videos, modules)
- Monthly consume and review sex-positive media like podcasts, books, and other media to promote learning
- Ambassador support can be enlisted
- Plan one annual awareness campaign to launch during SAAW
- Graduate and med campus-specific objectives:
- All the above objectives
- Act as student rep for SARP by attending and engaging in monthly GSO meetings
- Present SOPs to graduate student groups as needed.
- Manage social media accounts: Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook,
Create daily content for SARP social media (primarily Instagram) based on existing social media guidance
- Develop a monthly calendar for social media content using Facebook Creator Studio
- Coordinate the social media content creation team, including ambassadors
- Promote advertisements for SARP events and activities as needed
Development & Programs
- Responsible for the overall day-to-day community organizing, networking, and mobilization of student ambassadors. Activities include:
- Supervise, support, and provide student ambassadors as it relates to preventing interpersonal violence on campus
- Plan the ambassador tabling schedule
- Make presentations and represent SARP’s strategic vision at student activities, meetings, and collaborative university-based projects
- Train student ambassadors to deliver SARP’s mission and strategic vision through tabling, events, and other outreach activities
- Organize, plan, and co-facilitate weekly meetings for student ambassadors for the entire academic year
- Plan and facilitate retreat for student ambassadors to achieve the above goals.
- Work to ensure that SARP services are understood and accessible to students, student groups, and departments on campus
- Develop strategic outreach plans and approaches; implement innovative ways to provide information and recruit students for leadership development, events, and other initiatives
- Evaluate the ambassador program