Community Engagement
& Leadership Education (CELE) Center

Thursday, 28 September 2023 1:30 pm–3:30 pm
Location: Mary Gates Hall Commons

You are invited to join us for CELE Center's Volunteer, Internships, and Paid Opportunities (VIP) Fair as a part of Dawg Daze!

Thursday September 28, 2023

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Mary Gates Commons

The CELE Center has an outstanding opportunity for a Program Manager for Community Partnerships. This position leads the day-to-day implementation of our academic community-engaged courses program and has significant responsibility for building community-based organization and campus relationships that support the overall mission of the CELE Center. The range of tasks in this position will include direct advising with students enrolled in community-engaged courses, outreach to community-based partner organizations, work with faculty/instructors to support community-engaged pedagogy in their classrooms, and management of online systems and web content to enable and support community-based learning at the University of Washington.

The hiring salary is set at $5616 per month for this position. Interested applicants should see the full position description and apply to requisition #223420 on the UW employment site. Application review will begin the last week of August.

We seek competitive applications from individuals who fully embrace the University of Washington's commitment to racial equity, diversity, and inclusion. We are committed to building and supporting a diverse and inclusive work team and to bringing these core values into our daily work with students, faculty, staff, and the communities in which and with whom we work.

Applications are live for all positions! Apply by November 10th! Positions are open until filled, but start date is immediately and service in the classrooms begin January 3rd.

Check out position descriptions, benefits, and how to apply for each position HERE. 

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• Community Engagement Coordinator (1 position)
  • Create and collaborate on various family and community engagement events to support the Jumpstart mission!

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.

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

Click here for full description and application instructions.  

The Tutoring Program Coordinator(s) will collaborate with CELE staff to support the America Reads program through the CELE Center at UW.  Work-study eligible UW students can become paid year-long reading tutors in elementary and middle schools in Seattle. The Tutoring Program Coordinator(s) will have the opportunity to collaborate with CELE staff and students, the UW Work Study office, and Seattle Public Schools to expand the program. This position is supervised by the Program Manager of School Based Internships. We are hiring up to 2 coordinators for the 2023-2024 academic year.

View full job description here (UW netID log in required)

Hours: 10-15 hrs/week, up to 19

Compensation: $25.00/hr *This role is hourly federal work-study and is not eligible for a tuition waiver, as it is not classified under the ASE contract.

Dates of Service: September 27, 2023 – June 7, 2024 (opportunity to start earlier if you have a summer work-study award)

Priority Application Deadline: August 27, 2023 (Open until Filled)

To apply, please submit the following:

• A current resume including the names and contact information for two references.
• A cover letter outlining why you are applying for this position and articulating your interests in supporting tutoring programs, promoting educational equity with underrepresented communities, and developing community-campus partnerships.

Please submit all materials via the online application form: https://airtable.com/shrfeAN76Tve53WHl

Please email Emma Pelletier, Program Manager of School Based Internships, at egbp@uw.edu with any questions.

The Community Engagement and Leadership Education (CELE) Center is accepting applications for a Graduate Staff Assistant (GSA): Community Engaged Learning position for the appointment period of September 18, 2023 - June 15, 2024.

Compensation and benefits for this role will reflect the negotiated labor contract and salary schedule that govern academic student employees and are subject to union shop provisions.

The Graduate Staff Assistant: Community Engaged Learning will contribute to community-engaged learning at the UW through partnership development and student engagement. This position will work primarily with our community-engaged courses program and will support students community-based service opportunities with academic coursework. The GSA will also contribute to the institutionalization of community-engagement at the UW Seattle through research, writing, and faculty outreach.

If interested, please review the full position description and application instructions. Deadline for submission is September 1.

The CELE Center has an outstanding opportunity for a Program Manager for Community Based Internships. This position leads the day-to-day implementation of the Undergraduate Community Based Internship (UCBI) program; is a member of the facilitation team for General Studies 350 and LEAD 298; and offers strategic support for paid internship programs in the CELE Center. The range of tasks in this position will include: recruitment, advising, and academic support of students interested in community-based internships; outreach and relationship building with community-based organizations that host undergraduate interns; implementation of co-curricular workshops and/or class sessions for community-based interns; the development of campus partnerships to support community-based internship programming; and supervision of graduate student staff focused on undergraduate student development via internships with non-profit and government organizations.

The hiring salary is set at $5616 per month for this position. Interested applicants should apply to requisition #225453 on the UW employment site. Application review will begin August 30.