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.
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:
Requirements
Preferred Qualifications
All UAA Riverways staff will demonstrate and integrate the following Undergraduate Academic Affairs Competencies:
Why work for the CELE/Riverways Project?
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:
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.