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:
Women's Support Worker
About the Role
We’re looking for a Women’s Support Worker who thrives in complexity, can think critically and independently, and always centres survivors.
As part of our Community-Based Victim Services crisis team, you’ll provide feminist, intersectional, decolonizing support to survivors of intimate partner, domestic and sexual violence. You’ll be part crisis worker, part advocate, part systems navigator, and part change-maker.
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.