Graduate Assistant - Jack Kerouac School
Position Title: Graduate Assistant - Jack Kerouac School
# of Openings: 1
Department/Program: Jack Kerouac School 12100
Work Location: 100% Remote
Campus Location: Arapahoe Campus
Reports to: Michelle Naka Pierce
FLSA Classification: Non-Exempt/Hourly
FTE: 25% (10 hrs/week)
Compensation: $20 per hour and $3,000 scholarship for the academic year
Application Deadline: 3/31/25 or until filled.
Job Summary
This graduate teaching assistant position offers MFA low-res graduate students an opportunity to support classes in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics curriculum; graduate assistants will have the opportunity to lead contemplative & creative exercises, offer feedback to students, and/or lead class discussions. Graduate assistants will also receive mentorship and professional development with regards their teaching philosophy and pedagogical practices.
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
• Attend online classes & regular meet with mentoring faculty
• Participate in monthly in-service with other GAs in pedagogy collective
• Comment and offer feedback on student work in a timely fashion
• Conference with students
• Develop creative assignments and contemplative exercises
• Lead class discussions of both student work and course readings
Minimum Qualifications:
• Current graduate student at Naropa University in good standing.
• Demonstrated advanced creative writing ability.
• Ability to create and maintain a positive team environment and behave professionally with everyone encountered in the course and scope of the job duties.
• 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 coursework in Canvas.
• Successful completion of JKS pedagogy course or comparable teaching experience.
• Strength of Application Materials (sample creative and contemplative exercises and assignments)
• 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 teaching or TAing.
• Previous training in the following areas: learning disabilities, multilingual speakers, diversity awareness.
• Jack Kerouac School MFA low-res candidate.
Physical Requirements & Environmental Conditions
In Canvas classrooms you may experience: interruptions, distractions. 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 on canvas classroom or in 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, and 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.