With over 20,000 members, SSMU’s role is to represent undergraduate students and to offer them services since 1908.

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Comptant plus de 20,000 membres, le rôle de l’AÉUM a été de représenter les étudiants de premier cycle et de leur offrir des services depuis l’année 1908. 

Last year, SSMU Legislative Council formally passed a motion to Acknowledge Rape Culture on McGill Campus and at SSMU. Our Turn’s National Student-Led Action Plan to End Campus Sexual Violence graded McGill’s sexual violence policy a C+. At the end of the year, SSMU released an open letter regarding McGill’s mishandling of complaints against professors. This year, McGill is set to pass an updated policy in March. Continuing this work, requires careful attention to past activism on campus, with an eye forward.   A perennial challenge to student activism is high turnover: as one generation of students replaces another, a great deal of invaluable experience is lost and must be reacquired from scratch. Moreover, these efforts can be scattered and poorly coordinated, with students in different communities fighting the same battles again and again, without the benefit of one another’s knowledge and skills. In order for our campus community to work efficiently and successfully against sexual violence and administrative apathy, we need to learn from our predecessors. The goal of this position is threefold: (1) to organize students currently engaging in this work, (2) to draft a report on previous advocacy and mobilization effort undertaken by McGill students, (3) continue mobilization work at SSMU, through work on a concrete project that would impact the campus climate.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Compile a confidential and internal detailed timeline of previous advocacy and mobilization effort undertaken by McGill students around sexual violence prevention. In order to do this, the Researcher will consult exit reports, newspaper articles, public statements, policies, and more, as well as conducting substantial primary research in the form of interviews. Due to the sensitive nature of some information in the report, this could be made available only to other groups or individuals upon request;

2. Create a shorter, more accessible version of this report that can be shared widely with members at large.  This document will omit any confidential or sensitive details about individuals.

3. Hold regular meetings for stakeholders and members working on McGill Committees, at SSMU services, or other grassroots organizations currently engaged in advocacy and/or mobilization on Sexual Violence at campus.

1. Extensive experience in conducting research, primarily on social movements, activism, sexual violence, and public health - ideally in both social science and humanities formats;

2. Professional knowledge of trauma-informed approaches to interacting with survivors of sexual violence;

3. Excellent writing, communication, and interviewing skills and experience;

4. In-depth knowledge of the recent history of anti-sexual violence organizing at McGill, as well as in the wider context of Quebec and North American campuses - ideally through first-hand involvement;

5. Existing network within McGill activist and political spheres.

• Hours on average: 5 hours per week;

• Priority will be given to a student that wants to continue this work into the next academic year;

• Contract;

• Deadline to apply is on August 6, 2019.

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