Student Employment

The RISE Center is responsible for creating events, programs, and services for marginalized and underrepresented students. Positions include the Peer Engagement Specialist

RISE Center Peer Engagement Specialists serve as ambassadors for peer education groups focused on social justice topics seeking to create a culture of increased inclusion and representation of all identities at the Lake Washington Institution of Technology. Exploring your own, and other identities and cultures, and engaging in advocacy, and allyship can make the Lake Washington Institution of Technology a truly inclusive community. 

• Event Planning Support 

• • Initiate, plan, and develop events and activities soliciting input from the student body focused on: social justice education and intergroup relations through peer-to-peer workshops.
  • Work collaboratively with college administration, faculty, and staff groups before and during events.
  • Implement events, including ordering supplies or food for small and large-scale events and assisting vendors as needed.
  • Schedule, advertise, and manage the logistics ensuring adequate staffing, booking venues, setting up, cleaning up, engaging with students and faculty/staff during events.
  • Create and distribute email and newsletter invitations for events as needed.  

• Communication 

• • Create a welcoming and engaging environment for all guests in OSL office spaces. 
  • Engage and invite students to attend campus activities including communicating with college leadership, and faculty and staff groups.
  • Work independently as well as cooperatively with OSL team to support department goals, meet deadlines, stay within assigned budgets, provide marketing team design input, and schedule project implementation based on workload, which may include five or more simultaneous projects.
  • Obtain input from professional staff to ensure that events meet OSL standards and expectations, express ideas accurately, and appropriately represent OSL values and purpose.
  • Communicate with other OSL team members regarding issues and concerns. 

• Management 

• • As directed by the Assistant Director accomplish the following:
  • Attend and actively participate in all scheduled meetings and activities.
  • Maintain and post office hours to accomplish duties as assigned. Schedule includes Monday through Thursday (in office between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.) and Friday (up to 4 hours online) for a maximum of 17 hours a week working around the student’s academic schedule.
  • Working as a team, examine existing processes, identify flaws, and create solutions that improve design capabilities.
  • Be a committee member for assigned college committees including faculty tenure committees (required). 

The Wellness Center and its services provide a place to support the health and wellness journeys of the LWTech community.

• Wellness Center Support 
  • Provide exceptional customer service experience to all visitors of the Wellness Center through enrollment of members, answering questions, monitoring the phone and the center.
  • Ensuring the cleanliness of the facility through managing supplies and organizing and cleaning equipment. 
  • Firmly and kindly enforce Center policies to maintain the safety of members, staff, and equipment. 
  • Record and keep clear and accurate information of all questions, complaints, lost property, and repairs and ensure the information is delegated to, and resolved by, the appropriate department.
  • Maintain inventory records of and stock the D.E.N. through spreadsheet reporting.
  • Create wellness education materials that are accurate, inclusive, culturally appropriate, and informative for the student body and anyone else who may view them.
  • Assist in brainstorming, preparing, marketing, and holding events on different wellness topics.
  • Undertake other duties, of a similar professional nature and appropriate to the role, at the request of the Wellness Coordinator.  

• Communication
  • Create a welcoming and engaging environment for all guests in OSL office spaces. 
  • Engage and invite students to attend campus activities including communicating with college leadership, and faculty and staff groups. 
  • Work independently as well as cooperatively with OSL team to support department goals, meet deadlines, stay within assigned budgets, provide marketing team design input, and schedule project implementation based on workload, which may include five or more simultaneous projects.
  • Obtain input from professional staff to ensure that events meet OSL standards and expectations, express ideas accurately, and appropriately represent OSL values and purpose. 
  • Communicate with other OSL team members regarding issues and concerns.  

• Management 
  • As directed by the Wellness Center Coordinator accomplish the following:
    • Attend and actively participate in all scheduled meetings and activities.
    • Maintain a regular schedule of Wellness Center desk coverage (between 4 and 17 hours per week) to accomplish duties as assigned. Schedule includes Monday – Wednesday 8am – 6pm and Thursday and Friday 8am – 4:30pm.
    • While working as a team, examine existing processes, identify flaws, and create solutions that improve Wellness Center programs and functions.
    • Be a committee member for assigned college committees including faculty tenure committees (required).
    • Monitor stock and usage of Wellness Vending Machine.

Student Veterans Center Peer Engagement Specialists serve as ambassadors primarily for Student Veterans and military connected students.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities  

• Assist in event planning for various activities or workshops that engage student veterans with the center or college.
• Contribute ideas to create new programming that engages Student Veterans and military connected students and encourages them to participate in events.
• Working within the Veterans Center answering the phone and taking messages or scheduling student appointments when the Veterans Center Coordinator is in meetings or absent. 
• Keeping the Veterans Center clean, especially after events and activities.
• Occasionally inventory and request purchase of office supplies or items needed to support events and activities.
• Coordinate with other Peer Advocates and officers of ASG, RISE Center, Clubs/Student Activities, and Wellness Center to support events and activities to include participation from Student Veterans.
• Occasional participation in committees such as Tenure Committee, Hiring Committees, Student Activity Fee Committees or Tech Fee committees.  

Marketing and Communication student employees focus their design skills in the development of print and online graphics.

Key Tasks and Responsibilties

• Design
  • Design social media strategies to support students’ engagement, EDI learning, and other OSL initiatives and projects.
  • Ensure all graphics/advertisements are used according to the college’s graphical standard.
  • Plan, create, and implement window displays and bulletin boards for all OSL centers and programs.
  • Create digital and print information graphics for assigned projects.
  • Photograph OSL events, select, and edit photos for print or online feature stories.
  • Update and maintain internal digital and print files, such as manuals, designs, photography, web pages, and videos.
  • Assist with graphic design work for other departments and college projects as needed or assigned.
  • Other related duties as assigned. 

• Advertising and Communication
  • Using the college’s posting policy, advertise marketing designs around campus and restrooms in designated areas and maintain print materials.
  • Engage and invite students to attend campus activities.
  • Create a welcoming and engaging environment for all guests in office spaces.
  • Work independently as well as cooperatively with OSL team to support department goals, meet deadlines, stay within budget, and schedule project implementation based on workload, which may include five or more simultaneous projects.
  • Obtain input from professional staff to ensure that designs meet OSL standards and expectations, express ideas accurately, and represent the OSL appropriately.
  • Communicate with other OSL team members regarding issues and concerns. 

• Management
  • As directed by the Assistant Director accomplish the following:
    • Attend and actively participate in all scheduled meetings and activities.
    • Working as a team, examine existing processes, identify flaws, and create solutions that improve design capabilities.
    • Be a committee member for assigned college committees including faculty tenure committees (required). 

Orgs Peer Engagement Specialists serve as support roles for student organizations in their execution of event planning, promotion and recruitment, community building, supply management, training and accessing resources.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Provide guidance to student organizations in navigating policies and procedures for being an affiliate of LWTech.
• Help students to develop goals for the year to focus on the achievement of their missions.
• Provide information and resources for all new student organization.
• Increase campus awareness of student organizations through marketing strategies.
• Track supplies purchased and stored for student organizations.
• Track student organization events and publish them on the LWTech calendar.
• Aid student organizations in finding and reserving spaces for their events and/or regular meetings.
• Create a welcoming and engaging environment for all student leaders to take lead in their org development.
• Engaging student organizations in participating in quarterly student org events such as student org fair.
• Orgs Peer Engagement Specialist will organize and facilitate various events and event planning meetings with and for student government