Job Opportunities

Duties and responsibilities

• Thoroughly learn writing center processes, policies, and staff profiles in order to help students schedule appointments and trouble-shoot
• Work in teams with peer writing consultants to manage and accommodate student tutorials, direct student inquiries, and support smooth transitions between appointments and shifts
• Navigate scheduling, re-scheduling, and cancellations with students
• Learn common technology trouble-shooting, such as Zoom, converting pdfs and editing pdfs, attaching and deleting files, etc.
• Provide excellent customer service, including friendly greetings, thorough explanations, and modeling information-seeking behavior
• Manage and add to FAQs and question logs/scenarios
• Manage phone calls and messages, email, and live-chat
• Provide clerical and office support when needed, including picking up mail, copying, etc.
• Room scheduling/calendars (not sure what this will look like in our new space)
• Develop professional competency/experience in an area of interest, including social media, data/assessment, leadership, technical writing, etc.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Good problem-solving skills
• Must have a strong desire to help students in an academic support setting
• Good computer skills including knowledge of Google Suite, MS Office suite
• ​Organized and calm under pressure

Application process

• Please find our application on Handshake

Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate one-on-one or in groups with clients to provide academic and skills support and to help them meet their academic goals in UWT’s quantitative courses
• Attend required meetings and trainings
• Assist with TLC quantitative workshops, orientations, and class visits
• Set and meet quarterly goals with professional staff to help develop and advance the resources of the TLC
• Perform routine tasks including greeting clients, answering phones, helping students, and administrative duties. Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Minimum 3.0 grade for courses in assigned quantitative fields (math, statistics, css and engineering)
• Completion of calculus series - Calc I, Calc II and Calc III
• Completed coursework in specific tutoring content area
• For scheduling purposes, an applicant needs to be available to work during at least 10 hours of the TLC's open hours
• Commitment to work at least 5-6 hours per week
• Effective communication skills
• Strong desire to work in an academic support setting
• Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment
• Commitment to an inclusive and equitable working/learning environment
• Strong computer skills including knowledge of MS Office and email

Educational Benefits

• Gain experience working with other students in an academic/instructional support setting
• Develop and strengthen the tutor's own quantitative skills
• Receive training in pedagogical theory and practice

Application Process

• First stage
  • Send a resume/CV, application, unofficial transcripts to uwtteach@uw.edu
  • Faculty reference should be sent to uwtteach@uw.edu directly by faculty
  • Must pass an entrance quantitative exam
• Second stage
  • One hour interview involved a mocking tutoring session and a conversation from the interview questions

Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate one-on-one or in groups with clients to provide academic and skills support and to help them meet their academic goals in UWT’s quantitative courses
• Attend required meetings and trainings
• Assist with TLC quantitative workshops, orientations, and class visits
• Set and meet quarterly goals with professional staff to help develop and advance the resources of the TLC
• Perform routine tasks including greeting clients, answering phones, helping students, and administrative duties. Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Minimum 3.0 grade for courses in assigned quantitative fields (chemistry and biology)
• Completed coursework in specific tutoring content area (TBIOL 120, 130, 140 and TCHEM 142, 152, 162)
• For scheduling purposes, an applicant needs to be available to work during at least 10 hours of the TLC's open hours
• Commitment to work at least 5-6 hours per week
• Effective communication skills
• Strong desire to work in an academic support setting
• Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment
• Commitment to an inclusive and equitable working/learning environment
• Strong computer skills including knowledge of MS Office and email

Educational Benefits

• Gain experience working with other students in an academic/instructional support setting
• Develop and strengthen the tutor's own quantitative skills
• Receive training in pedagogical theory and practice

Application Process

• First stage
  • Send a resume/CV, application, unofficial transcripts to uwtteach@uw.edu
  • Faculty reference should be sent to uwtteach@uw.edu directly by faculty
• Second stage
  • One hour interview involved a mocking tutoring session and a conversation from the interview questions

Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate one-on-one or in groups with clients to provide academic and skills support and to help them meet their academic goals in UWT’s quantitative courses
• Attend required meetings and trainings
• Assist with TLC quantitative workshops, orientations, and class visits
• Set and meet quarterly goals with professional staff to help develop and advance the resources of the TLC
• Perform routine tasks including greeting clients, answering phones, helping students, and administrative duties. Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Minimum 3.0 grade for courses in assigned quantitative fields (accounting, business and economics)
• Completed coursework in specific tutoring content area (TACCT 210, 220, 230)
• For scheduling purposes, an applicant needs to be available to work during at least 10 hours of the TLC's open hours
• Commitment to work at least 5-6 hours per week
• Effective communication skills
• Strong desire to work in an academic support setting
• Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment
• Commitment to an inclusive and equitable working/learning environment
• Strong computer skills including knowledge of MS Office, MS Excel and email

Educational Benefits

• Gain experience working with other students in an academic/instructional support setting
• Develop and strengthen the tutor's own quantitative skills
• Receive training in pedagogical theory and practice

Application process

• First stage
  
  • Send a resume/CV, application, unofficial transcripts to uwtteach@uw.edu
  • Faculty reference should be sent to uwtteach@uw.edu directly by faculty
• Second stage
  • One hour interview involved a mocking tutoring session and a conversation from the interview questions

Duties and responsibilities

• Work with students to help them understand assignments, clarify ideas, and develop as writers.
• Attend training and scheduled meetings.
• Assist with workshops, orientations, and classroom visits.
• Develop handouts, web content, and other resources for the TLC.
• Perform light reception duties.

Qualifications

• Current UW student available to work at least one full academic year (three quarters)
• Excellent listening, responding, and analytical reading skills
• Knowledge of or interest in different writing styles and genres
• Interest in developing further as a writer
• Ability to explain and demonstrate concepts in multiple ways
• Desire to work with all writers at UWT and to help others learn and understand
• Proficiency with word processing software, especially Microsoft Word
• Commitment to the anti-racist and inclusive mission of our writing center

Application Process

Our application is now available in the UW Handshake system. Please submit the following documents through Handshake.

We  have made a video for applicants to get a sense of the kind of work writing tutors at UWT do. Watch the video here.

Please watch the video and then send the following documents to Kelvin Keown at kelvin3@uw.edu:

• Resume or cv
• One sample of your writing (preferably in an academic genre)
• A faculty recommendation (may be sent directly by your recommender)
• A cover letter reflecting on your own experiences as a writer and how you envision contributing to tutoring work. Please address the following questions, ideally using specific examples:
  • How do your writing practices relate to academic discourses and other communities you belong to?
  • How has feedback from others influenced your writing and what kinds of feedback do you give others on their writing?
  • How did the video confirm or challenge your assumptions about being a writing tutor?
  • What characteristics and skills would you bring to the writing center?

Compensation

https://hr.uw.edu/comp/student-employees/