Graduate Assistant Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a field related to the program(s) and five years of program-related experience, or an equivalent combination of experience, education, and training.

Responsibilities

• Assist in strategic planning, development, and implementation of programs.
• Represent the organization at meetings, conferences, and other events; develop and present speeches or presentations to promote program awareness as needed.
• Provide technical support by evaluating processes, conducting training, attending operational meetings, and networking with affiliated groups.
• Monitor progress toward program objectives and deadlines.
• Participate in planning, administering, and monitoring program budgets and approved expenditures.
• Conduct research, design initiatives, and collaborate to ensure programs remain viable.
• Serve on, hold office in, or chair committees as needed; write publishable articles and papers as needed; and may supervise staff.
• Oversee or assist with operational and statistical reports and maintain required records and documentation.
• Lead assessment and continuous improvement of assigned Laney-AERO initiatives by reviewing participation, feedback, outcomes, implementation challenges, and scholar needs; document lessons and recommend improvements.
• Execute events and activities for Learning About Laney, LGS-SOAR, the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, and other assigned initiatives, including planning, communications, logistics, on-site implementation, issue resolution, and follow-up.
• Manage the annual cycle of Learning About Laney, including applications, participant administration, campus experiences, faculty and academic-program participation, travel, scholar liaisons, prospective-scholar guidance, recruitment follow-up, records, and assessment.
• Manage the annual cycle of LGS-SOAR, including applications, committee review, approved scholar-faculty placements, onboarding, orientation, training, workshops, research activities, scholar support, partnerships, records, and evaluation.
• Manage Bouchet Graduate Honor Society processes and activities, including applications, selection-process support, onboarding, scholar engagement, recognition, reporting, chapter activities, alumni engagement, and recordkeeping.
• Develop and implement communications, marketing, outreach, and digital-engagement activities, including presentations, materials, websites, email campaigns, newsletters, social media, virtual programming, participant resources, templates, and FAQs.
• Implement activities supporting scholar belonging, engagement, persistence, retention, professional development, and degree attainment, including workshops, networking, recognition, community-building, and connections to academic and professional communities.
• Provide developmental advising, coaching, program guidance, resource navigation, referrals, and follow-up to prospective and current scholars; document appropriately and escalate sensitive, complex, urgent, or high-risk concerns.
• Recruit, train, assign, supervise, coach, and evaluate fellows, junior fellows, ambassadors, delegates, graduate scholar liaisons, and other initiative personnel; establish expectations and ensure appropriate professional staff supervision.
• Make routine decisions for assigned programs; work within established goals, procedures, timelines, and resources; guide special projects and provide organizational support and coverage; escalate significant exceptions, resource concerns, faculty-related matters, sensitive scholar concerns, and decisions outside the position’s authority.
• Perform related responsibilities as required.