Graduate Assistant - Naropa Writing Center
Position Title: Graduate Assistant - Naropa Writing Center
# of Openings: 7
Department/Program: Writing Center 45000
Work Location: Hybrid On-Site/Remote
Campus Location: Arapahoe Campus
Reports to: Amy Bobeda, Naropa Writing Center Director
FLSA Classification: Exempt/Salaried
FTE: 25% (10 hrs/week)
Compensation: $20 per hour and $3,000 scholarship for the academic year
Application Deadline: 3/31 or until filled.
Job Summary
The Naropa Writing Center’s goal is to be an effective resource for all members of the Naropa community (student, staff, faculty, alumni) by providing a respectful, collaborative, and engaged learning environment for all writers. Our approach includes interactive sessions, asynchronous sessions for async students. Our writer-to-writer feedback and collaborations fosters analytic thinking, reading, and writing; and facilitates a space where writers may practice, experiment, and take risks without judgment.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
• Create and maintain a positive team environment and behave professionally with everyone encountered in the course and scope of the job duties.
• Offer instructional support in the Writing Center and in the classroom when available.
• Conduct online and in-person consulting sessions with writers.
• Conduct async writer-to-writer feedback sessions.
• Aid with the day-to-day functioning of the Naropa Writing Center.
• Attend program orientation: one full-day training that occurs during the week preceding the start of the fall semester.
• Attend professional development meetings once a month on Fridays.
• Design one workshop for professional development.
• Support COR classes with workshops.
• Other duties as assigned.
Job Qualifications:
• Must enroll in and successfully pass WRI700: Writing Pedagogy Seminar with an A- or better. Note: an incomplete does not satisfy this requirement.
• Ability to create and maintain a positive team environment and behave professionally and empathetically with everyone encountered in the course and scope of the job duties.
• Demonstrate advanced writing ability.
• Demonstrate potential for/compatibility with the NWC’s pedagogy (constructivist,
contemplative, experiential, process-based).
• Possess an interest in the study of writing pedagogy and practice, particularly in a writing
center setting.
• Have strong interpersonal, collaborative, and professional work skills, the ability to
meticulously attend to details, and an initiative to work independently and collaboratively.
• Have strong technological skills for online consulting sessions and operation of the online
platform used by the NWC.
• All job candidates must demonstrate an appropriate level of understanding of and appreciation for the values of Naropa University and the capacity to demonstrate an integration and embodiment of these values as evidenced in work, communication, collaboration styles, and other general workplace behaviors.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Previous experience with writing centers or teaching.
• Previous training in the following areas: learning disabilities, multilingual speakers, diversity
awareness, trauma-informed pedagogy, research writing, and MLA/APA/CMS.
• Incoming first-year Jack Kerouac School MFA candidate.
Physical Requirements & Environmental Conditions:
In the classrooms and on campus may experience: interruptions, distractions, heat, cold, dust and/or dampness. As a graduate assistant, you may spend extended periods time with any of the following:
•Reading academic texts and materials, student papers, etc.
•Operating personal computer and audio-visual equipment.
•Standing or sitting for hours at a time.
•Moving around campus for classes and meetings.
Naropa recognizes the following holidays throughout the year: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Fall Break, 4th Thursday and Friday in November, Winter Break, the last two weeks in December encompassing the Christmas holiday as well as New Year’s
Naropa’s health and welfare benefits include the following: medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-paid life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment, an employer-sponsored pre-tax retirement savings plan, which includes up to 2.5% employer matching, and a variety of voluntary, employee-paid supplemental insurance plans.
A comprehensive benefits package is available to full-time employees who work a minimum of 30 hours each week. Employees who work 20 – 29 hours each week are eligible for only the employer-paid short-term & long-term disability, employer-paid life insurance & accidental death and dismemberment, and the retirement plan, which includes up to 2.5% employer matching.
Employees who work fewer than 20 hours per week are eligible to participate in Naropa’s retirement plan only, which includes up to 2.5% employer matching.
All regular full-time and part-time faculty and staff, including student workers, accrue sick leave benefits. Full-time and part-time staff positions accrue vacation and personal time. All leave accrual rates vary based on the position, hours worked, and years of service.
The University recognizes the importance of including its employees in its organizational mission and values and welcomes employees into the classroom to “touch the magic.” Specifically, regular employees are provided generous tuition remission opportunities for themselves and their family members.
Naropa University participates in the Council of Independent Colleges Tuition Exchange Program (CIC-TEP). CIC-TEP is a network of CIC colleges and universities willing to accept, tuition-free, students from families of full-time employees of other CIC participating institutions (full-time as designated by the employer/institution). Additional information can be found here: https://www.cic.edu/member-services/tuition-exchange-program.
Naropa University is an equal opportunity, non-discriminatory employer and Title IX is a federal civil rights law that prohibits gender discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual and relationship violence. This law applies to all students, faculty, and staff.