Riverways Guides Coordinator Graduate Staff Assistant Position – Deadline 5/15

Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center

Riverways Guides Coordinator Graduate Staff Assistant

Riverways Education Partnerships in the Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center is currently accepting applications for a Riverways Guides Coordinator Graduate Staff Assistant (GSA) position for the appointment period of 9/16/23 – 6/15/24.

Title/Pay Classification: Staff Assistant 50% FTE

Appointment period: 9/16/23-6/15/24

Application open: May 1, 2023

Application deadline: May 15, 2023

Interviews: May 22-26, 2023

Notifications to Applicants: May 29, 2023

Candidate Response Required: June 9, 2023

Salary: Salary and benefits (including tuition) are commensurate with academic standing per the labor contract and salary schedule that govern academic student employees.

Undergraduate Academic Affairs (UAA) shapes, advances, and stewards a world-class undergraduate academic experience for students at the University of Washington. Staff, faculty and students in UAA deepen and enrich the learning experience for all undergraduates, recognizing and supporting the unique learning path of each individual student and the commitment of each academic program to excellence in learning and teaching.

Within UAA, the Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center provides students with opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to contribute to thriving communities. Building authentic community and campus partnerships drive our work. CELE programs are centered around the areas of community-engaged learning, leadership education, P-12 student success and place-based initiatives.

Riverways Education Partnerships connects UW students to a variety of programs that partner with rural and tribal K-12 schools across Washington state as a means of transforming the learning and inspiring the growth of both UW and K-12 students, while addressing inequities in public education. Working with Riverways provides a unique opportunity to learn about public education and gain knowledge of partnerships between the University of Washington and rural and tribal K-12 schools from around Washington state. To learn more, please visit cele.uw.edu.

This position will focus on Riverway’s Rural and tribal outreach programs, including the Neah Bay: Telling our Stories, Imagining our Futures program, the Literacy Arts Alternative Spring Break program and the Riverways Guides Program.

The primary responsibilities of the Riverways Guides Coordinator GSA include:

Riverways Guides Coordinator Responsibilities (70%):

Under the supervision of the Assistant Director of Rural and Tribal Partnerships, facilitate and lead a cohort of UW undergraduates to work with Indigenous and rural k-12 students in a year long program.

• Lead trips and virtual visits to WA high schools throughout the academic year and during Spring Break. Support the team in identifying high schools with high American Indian/Alaska Native populations, and in designing and implementing mentorship and college preparation activities at various high schools, community colleges, and tribal communities.

• Coordinate recruitment and selection of interns for the undergraduate Riverways Guides team
• Facilitate a weekly meeting for the undergraduate team during Autumn, Winter, and Spring quarters. Topics to include: developing best practices in working with Indigenous  and rural communities and students, college and career readiness, mentorship in a classroom setting
• Support undergraduate Riverways Guides in outreach and programming for Native K-12 programs throughout the state.

• Coordinate activities with the Center of American and Indigenous Studies and Multicultural Outreach & Recruitment team around these activities.

Literacy Arts and STEM ASB programming (30%)

Assist the Assistant Director of Rural and Tribal Partnerships in the planning and implementation of Literacy Arts and STEM ASB in 5 – 8 communities:

• Develop and maintain relationships with community partners,
• Recruit and train Team Leaders and participants for the program.
• Assist in leading a Winter Quarter seminar for all participants
• Coordinate activities for ASB week.
• Assist in creation of Literacy Arts ASB magazine

Requirements

• Full time graduate student at the University of Washington in related field
• Previous experience and/or deep interest in education and providing access to higher education
• Willingness to actively engage in addressing issues of structural inequity, power, and privilege in education
• Highly motivated and self-directed.
• Ability to work well as a member of a team and independently.
• Strong research and analysis skills; strong written and verbal communication skills; excellent interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with rural and tribal communities.
• Understanding of the lived experience of indigenous community.
• Experience working with K-12 students, preferably with Native youth.
• Experience in storytelling and writing projects is desired but not necessary.
• Exhibit an appreciation of, a sensitivity to, and a respect for a diverse academic environment, inclusive of students, faculty and staff of many social, economic, cultural, ideological, racial and ethnic backgrounds.

• Experience in higher education academic student services, or K-12 youth educational work.
• Understanding of educational inequities and the racial and socioeconomic disparities that exist in education.

• Ability to work well both as a member of a small team and independently.
• Creative problem solving skills, ability to balance a variety of time sensitive duties, flexibility, and attention to detail.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.

All UAA Riverways staff will demonstrate and integrate the following Undergraduate Academic Affairs Competencies:

• Accountability and Integrity
• Race, Equity, and Difference
• Constituent Focus
• Collaboration and Teamwork

Why work for the CELE/Riverways Project?

• Gain extensive program experience rural and tribal K-12 outreach and assessment of these programs.
• Work with friendly staff in a supportive, team-oriented environment.
• Gain experience mentoring undergraduate students.
• Lesson planning experience

The UW Riverways Educational Partnership is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. The UW Riverways Educational Partnership is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications from people of color, individuals with disabilities, women, and veterans.

 

Work Hours and Location: 220 hours per academic quarter; quarterly schedule negotiated with supervisor, majority of hours will be completed during weekday business hours in a hybrid work environment (combination of remote work hours and in-person hours in CELE Center office in Mary Gates Hall).

Compensation

This is a 50% FTE academic student employee appointment and includes the standard tuition waiver and health benefits. Salary is commensurate with the appointee’s academic standing. For salary information, please click here. Please note that the salary schedule for the 2023-24 academic year is unlikely to be published until summer 2023.

Applications & How to Apply:

Applications will be reviewed and interviews will be scheduled according to the timeline listed above. Application deadline:  May 15, 2023. To apply, please submit the following documents:

• A current resume (one page)
• A cover letter describing why you believe you are an excellent candidate for the position ○ In your cover letter, please include a statement describing your experience working with rural and tribal communities to promote social justice and racial equity. Please share what experience you have directly had in assessment projects both in gathering data from a variety of sources as well as analyzing the results.

• Contact information for three professional/academic references

Please send application materials to Avelaka Macarro, amacarro@uw.edu.

To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at 206.543.6450 / 206.543.6452 (tty) or dso@uw.edu.

Questions: Contact Avelaka Macarro, amacarro@uw.edu.

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