Description
UW Bothell offers student employment opportunities to help prepare students by providing practical work experience. Students are provided professional development and mentoring to develop skills to support post-graduation employment preparation and success.
Position Description & Educational Benefits:
The Social Justice and Civic Education team (SJCE) prepares students to enter the fields of event planning, marketing, organizing, social justice education, and careers requiring teamwork and leadership skills.
SJCE is a small team of passionate and dedicated student leaders who are committed to serving marginalized students and building community at UW Bothell. SJCE members empower students with structurally marginalized identities, increase access to identity-specific resources, create opportunities for social justice education, civic engagement, and celebration of all identities.
Student Engagement & Activities (SEA) – Duties & Responsibilities:
- Contribute respectfully to the diverse and inclusive work environment at UWB and the Student Engagement & Activities (SEA) department
- Contribute to the SEA mission
- Perform outreach to students about SEA programs, events, and services to promote student involvement, and provide current information about campus resources
- Maintain shared workspace with other student leaders, including supplies management, rotating cleaning and organizational duties, prompt reporting of issues, etc.
- Maintain active, timely communication with supervisor and team
- Connect with the UW Bothell student body to find out what different students want and/or need
- Maintain documents and folders in a shared digital filing system, on a student engagement platform, social media, and other technology
- Perform clerical duties including documenting and updating processes, data entry, maintaining work calendars, booking rooms, and scheduling meetings
- Support and staff SEA events and operations as needed. This includes but is not limited to: New Student Orientation, Welcome Week, SEA org support, and large-scale campus events
- Represent the SEA department at events and as requested by supervisor
- Support the recruitment of future student leaders during hiring processes
Time commitments
1. Work hours
- 15 hours per week during fall, winter, and spring quarters. Hours must be regularly scheduled during business hours of 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday.
- Must be available to attend weekly team meetings, 1-2 hours per week, times TBD.
2. Required job training
SEA Student Leader job training will take place:
- September 6th – 26th, 2023, times TBD
- January 5th, 2024, times TBD
- April 5th, 2024, times TBD
Candidates not available during required job training are not eligible for the position.
Work conditions
Most work is in-person, with 4 hours per week of optional remote administrative work.
Virtual work requires use of Zoom, Teams, and other platforms (training provided)
Event set up and take down may require lifting boxes and equipment up to 20 lbs.
Work is completed in a shared, open-office workspace with minimal privacy
Pay
$18.69 per hour
Pay rate anticipated to increase January 1st, 2024, amount of increase TBD
Employment Period: September 1st, 2023 – June 30th, 2024
Hours per week:5
Supervisor & Contact Info: Julius Rodriguez, Program Manager of Student Engagement & Activities, odriguez@uw.edu
For additional information, please visit us at www.uwb.edu/sea/
Role Preferences:
Marketing Lead
This position prepares you for jobs in marketing, communications, and graphic design
Additional skill building: collaboration, social media, event planning, vendor relations
- Manages SJCE image, brand, and visibility on campus
- Oversees social media platforms (Instagram, Discord)
- Creates posts about identity-specific resources for UW Bothell students, using research summaries provided by Social Justice Lead
- Ensures SJCE events and offerings are marketed creatively and to multiple student groups, especially marginalized identities and cultures
- Collaborates with Social Justice Lead on implementing equitable practices for marketing
- Ensures that SJCE marketing is accessible and social justice oriented
- Assists Event Leads with event marketing by creating materials, customizing and implementing marketing plan, tracking RSVPs, and more
- Assists Event Leads with event logistics, incl. set up, take down, check-in, food forms, budgeting, space reservations, and more
- Oversees purchasing, incl. event supplies, food, SJCE swag
- Preferred qualifications:
- Graphic design experience (Photoshop, InDesign, or similar)
- Experience creating effective flyers, social media posts, reels, videos, or similar
- Experience implementing creative outreach and marketing campaigns (competitions, scavenger hunts, games, rituals, etc.)
Social Justice Lead
This position prepares you for jobs in social justice education, accessibility, advocacy, and cross-cultural communication
Additional skill building: research, collaboration, pedagogy
- Researches social justice topics, incl. accessibility and identities relevant to UWB students
- Uses research to create and document equitable practices for event planning, marketing, and other SJCE operations
- Educates SJCE team on equitable practices; helps ensure that all SJCE events and marketing are accessible and social justice oriented
- Identifies potential guest speakers, community organizations, and vendors aligned with values of equity and social justice
- Provides research summaries to Event Leads
- Researches identity- and culturally specific resources for UW Bothell students
- Provides research summaries to Marketing Lead
- Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with research
- Ability to effectively summarize large amounts of information
- Familiarity with social justice concepts, such as intersectionality, racism, accessibility, power, marginalization, equity, etc.
Event Coordinators (2 positions available)
This position prepares you for jobs in event planning, program management, and advocacy
Additional skill building: collaboration, social media, budgeting, outreach
- Collaborates with other Event Lead on events and programs
- Designs and executes large-scale events on campus in partnership with UWB departments and/or faculty
- Organizes annual SJCE signature programs, incl. Welcome Week guest speaker, Young Black & Gifted panel, and Alternative Spring Break
- Completes required marketing requests, budget requests, and other forms in a timely manner
- Collaborates with Social Justice Lead on implementing equitable practices for event planning
- Uses research summaries to choose guest speakers, vendors, and partners aligned with values of equity and social justice
- Ensures that SJCE events are accessible and social justice oriented
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with event planning
- Experience creating effective flyers, social media posts, reels (Canva, Adobe Express, or similar)
Qualifications
Eligibility
- Must be a matriculated University of Washington Bothell student
- Must be enrolled in at least 6 credits as an undergraduate student or at least 4 credits as a graduate student in fall quarter
- Must be in good standing with UWB. Good standing is defined as:
- You must have a 2.5 cumulative and quarterly GPA
- You must be in good judicial standing
Minimum Qualifications:
- Strong interest in contributing to the mission of SEA: offering meaningful engagement to students and advocating for social justice
- Strong interest in improving the UW Bothell campus for marginalized students
- Interest in event planning and/or marketing
- Strong interest in working in a diverse team, navigating different viewpoints, and making balanced group decisions
- Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks, prioritize effectively, follow through on commitments, and meet deadlines
- Ability to take initiative, proactively identify problems and creative solutions, and make informed decisions
- Computer skills: ability to use email, Zoom, Canvas, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint
- Presentation skills: able to convey information in a clear, concise, and compelling way
- Research skills: able to independently find relevant, accurate information online and in person
- Written communication skills: able to convey information in a focused, coherent, and accurate way
- Collaboration experience
- Demonstrated ability to hear and consider different perspectives
- Ability to give and receive feedback in a work setting
- Ability to articulate personal strengths and areas for growth
- Ability to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of your work
- Ability to articulate understanding of roles you play in groups or teams
- Previous involvement on college campus
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience successfully planning and executing events
- Marketing and/or graphic design skills
- Experience successfully working in diverse teams and environments
- Intermediate presentation skills
- Ability to use Microsoft Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Excel
- Ability to learn new technology quickly
- Ability to motivate others
- Experience assisting with budget proposal writing and presentations
SEA Mission Statement
Students are the center of our work. Our programs are student driven and grounded in equity, inclusivity, and social justice. We construct environments where students co-create collective learning experiences with their peers, which cultivates their agency. We support students as they navigate co-curricular educational opportunities to clarify their identities, purpose, and sense of belonging on campus. Through their involvement, students will be prepared to engage in their communities and contribute to meaningful social change.
UW Bothell Diversity Statement
Diversity and Inclusion are core values and priorities of the University of Washington Bothell. Our work begins with the acceptance and celebration of the differences that are represented through the many diverse and minoritized communities on our campus and in the surrounding community. We recognize that we are bound together in a collective experience and that our actions impact all in our community. When we focus on the lives of the most marginalized groups among us, we also create conditions of equity, justice and academic excellence for everyone.
As embodied in our Diversity Action Plan, we are engaged in an ongoing process of identifying and confronting the ways in which institutional and interpersonal discrimination inhibits the lives and education of our students, staff and faculty.
All new student employees must also complete UW’s online Title IX course about preventing and responding to sex-and gender-based violence and harassment.
Application Instructions
To submit a complete application, you will need your resume available to upload.
Applications submitted after the due date will be accepted, but they may not be considered if there is a large pool of applicants.
Under Washington State Governor Inslee’s Proclamation 21-14.2, UW student employees must be vaccinated against COVID-19 or obtain an approved medical or religious exemption. Your employment is contingent upon proof that you are fully vaccinated or qualify for an exemption. The University of Washington is committed to ensuring a safe environment for all members of the UW community. As a part of that commitment, and in recognition of Washington state law, candidates for employment are required to complete a sexual misconduct declaration and the University is required to conduct a sexual misconduct verification on a final candidate’s current and past postsecondary educational institution employers, prior to an offer of employment.
All new student employees must also complete UW’s online Title IX course about preventing and responding to sex-and gender-based violence and harassment.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.
Diversity is a core value of University of WA Bothell. We believe the power of diversity enriches all of us by exposing us to a range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions. To learn more, read our Diversity Statement.