Graduate Assistant Unity Center Lavender Lounge
1 Full-time Position (20 hours a week)
Primary Purpose
The Unity Center is a warm and welcoming space that affirms and promotes equity for students who have been historically marginalized. We work with campus and community partners to create a climate where all students belong and have equitable opportunities and outcomes. We build community, provide education, and support students through programs and services to foster this space and environment.
The Unity Center houses identity-specific resources for students of color, first-generation students, LGBTQ+ students, women, and students with compromised citizenship status. Additionally, the Unity Center houses a Quiet Room that doubles as a lactation space, a lending library, and a computer lab.
Duties and Responsibilities
Lavender Lounge Programming is our new initiative. The Lavender Lounge, outside of being a physical space in the Student Union 434, is a space for students to be their authentic selves. Programming includes a dialogue space around different aspects of the LGBTQ+ identity, training around navigating RIC systems with an LGBTQ+ identity, and other programming that interests students. This GA, with the support of professional staff, will work with undergraduate student workers in the implementation of the work.
- Support Student Programmer Associates’ work year-round.
- Coordinate Programmer Associates signing up for support roles in the internal UC events calendar.
- Support and monitor our Graphic Design Associates in their making of flyers and the newsletter.
- Build dialogue and support circles for marginalized students.
- Research and maintain resources for students around access to services for gender/sexuality resources on campus and in the local community.
- Represent the Unity Center at college wide events, service fairs, orientation and tabling opportunities.
Qualifications
- Strong oral communication skills (public speaking); self-motivated, reliable, dependable, punctual
- Comfortable with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint), One Drive, and Excel.
- Able to work independently or as a team; work within deadlines; organized.
- Act as an ambassador for the Unity Center on and off campus; have a passion for social justice, equity and inclusion.
Learning Outcomes
- Graduate Student will develop project management skills to support the ideation and implementation of a program.
- Graduate Student will develop facilitation skills to support in leading programming, and in facilitation of dialogue circles.
- Graduate Student will develop community building skills and conflict resolution skills while supporting student and center needs.
How to Apply
Applicants must complete the Graduate Assistant Application, include a resume, and provide corroborating documentation for related experience if applicable. Send to Biama Charles, Director.