Jobs at BWSS
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BWSS is a feminist ending violence organization with an entrepreneurial spirit on a mission to end gender-based violence. For over 40 years we’ve walked alongside cis and trans women, femmes, and transfeminine survivors providing advocacy, amplifying resilience and resistance, and we’re just getting started. We are committed to doing the work and putting survivors at the centre. A mission like ours needs a perspective like yours, that’s what makes us stronger.
BWSS is known for its inclusionary hiring practices. We offer the opportunity to work within an accomplished team making a difference every day on the frontline and beyond.
The following positions are currently available:
Manager, Justice Centre
The Justice Centre at Battered Women’s Support Services is a legal advocacy community clinic that supports women and gender-diverse survivors of gender-based violence navigating family, immigration, criminal, and child welfare legal systems. The work draws on an intersectional feminist legal advocacy to support individual survivors while contributing to broader efforts to improve legal and public safety systems.
The Role
The Manager, Justice Centre leads a high-volume, frontline legal advocacy clinic and is responsible for ensuring effective, trauma- and violence-informed service delivery while contributing to program development and broader efforts to improve legal and public safety systems.
This role brings together direct legal advocacy, program leadership, and systems-focused work grounded in BWSS’s decolonizing, intersectional feminist, and racial justice analysis.
Indigenous Women’s Counsellor
About the Role
As the BWSS Indigenous Women’s Counsellor you will join the BWSS stopping the violence counselling team and undertake a broad mandate that includes affecting social change, to address gender inequalities and ultimately to end violence against Indigenous girls and women, through providing feminist decolonizing, intersectional based counselling for Indigenous women survivors of gender-based violence. You will provide trauma- and violence-informed individual and group counselling to girls, women, femmes, and gender-diverse survivors. You will work as part of an interdisciplinary team committed to safety, healing, and liberation.