Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse Lead

This role provides an exciting and challenging opportunity to help shape our approach to tackling harassment and sexual misconduct at the University of Brighton. Your expertise and passion for prevention alongside your skills and ability to support survivors will be key to your success in this position within the Student Wellbeing Service.

As the University Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse Lead, you will work closely with our Disclosure Response Service and specialise in supporting survivors of sexual violence and domestic abuse.  The role is also fundamental in furthering the University’s #NeverOK Pledge.  You will possess the relevant skills, qualifications, and experience to support students, and continue enhancing our approach to tackling all forms of violence and harassment.  Working with key colleagues and teams internally and continuing to develop key partnerships externally, this is a fantastic opportunity to play a major role in creating a safe community and delivering an excellent student experience.

To succeed in the role, you will be a strong team-player with the confidence and drive to influence others and be ready to contribute to the wider student wellbeing agenda.  In joining the Student Wellbeing team there will be opportunities for development, collaboration, and innovation.  For further information about the role and the qualities we are looking for, please see the job description. 

The University has an attractive range of benefits including generous annual leave, membership to pension scheme you can find more information in the Working here section of our website which includes information on equality, diversity and inclusion and facilities.

We welcome applications from job sharers.

Further details:

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.

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