03/30/2022
CEED is hiring for four work-study positions. If you have work-study and are interested in working and learning about issues of justice, please consider working for CEED. See the job description below for more information. You can also stop by MH150/158 and talk with Grey.
Title: Faculty Assistant I
Category: Paraprofessional
Description: Work Study staff collaborate with the CEED Director and CEED Program Coordinator to support Woodring College of Education's vision that fosters community relationships and a culture of learning that advance knowledge, honor diversities, and promote social justice.
The Center for Education, Equity and Diversity serves as a resource center for students, faculty, and staff who are interested in topics of educational equity and multicultural education, with an emphasis on social justice and critical consciousness cultivation.
Important responsibilities of CEED staff include providing programming, maintaining a healthy learning space that fosters community-building, assisting in the upkeep and day to day operations of the new Food Pantry, providing friendly and knowledgeable library support, and resources. Resources include films, documentaries, books (adult, young adult, and children) and articles from CEED and the CIRCLE book collections that will benefit and support students, staff and faculty in the areas of educational equity and social justice. More importantly, CEED staff collaborate in program-planning and facilitation of CEED-sponsored events. Student employees must be willing to work after hours and evening events, weekly meetings and sign a written contract agreeing to duties and responsibilities. Students will be required to take the Western’s Accessibility Training in order to update website materials.
Description of Duties:
● Be familiar with the contents of the Center especially the library – location of CEED books and videos, Canadian-American Studies collection, Circle collection, and others resources
● Learn and use the center’s library data system including locating items on the shelves, checking out, checking in CEED materials and sending out notification for overdue resources
● Learn and use software programs used for communication and organizational purposes, including Trello, Eventbrite, and Facebook (among others)
● Learn and be responsible for updating CEED website
● Learn to design posters and advertisement using publisher and other software programs
● Develop evaluations for events and enter completed evaluations in excel spreadsheet
● Track, report and record work hours using Trello
● Monitor hours worked based on work-study allocation
● Submit bi-monthly timesheets without reminders
● Help run and maintain the Food Pantry
● Complete individual assigned tasks regularly without the need for reminders
● Report to work on time
● Keep you CEED and work areas neat and clean
● Take messages and give the message to the appropriate person
● Open and close Center according to protocol
Contact: Grey Webster or Kristen French
Hours/Week: 6-19 hour per week
Pay Rate: $15/hour or DOE
Positions Available: 4
Closes: 10/01/2022
