Accessibility Resources is looking for Peer Notetakers! Notetakers provide an essential service that helps ensure equal access to education for students who receive accommodations. Students often find volunteering to be a Peer Notetaker enhances the classroom experience by encouraging more thorough, quality notes. Notetakers may receive a letter of recommendation or, if they qualify, an honoraria at the end of the semester.
If you are interested in becoming a Peer Notetaker, please email your schedule to stu-notes@buffalo.edu as soon as possible. We are able to accept Notetakers on a first come, first serve basis.
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is looking to hire two student tour guides for the Fall 2022 semester to lead our prospective student visits. Interested students should be comfortable leading tours, speaking with larger groups of people and talking about your experience in engineering.
Qualifications:
Undergraduate SEAS student with Sophomore standing within an approved major
Available on Mondays from 9:30am-11:30am.
Please email Noelle Matthews noellehi@buffalo.edu Sr. Academic advisor- if interested.
Athlete Academic Affairs in the Division of Athletics at UB is looking for Athletics Tutor candidates who are completing an undergraduate, master’s degree or pursuing a doctorate degree to assist in academic achievement, skill enrichment, and learning strategies with student-athletes for specific classes. The desired candidate will work with academically at-risk student-athletes, who might be first-year students (freshmen/transfer), are struggling learners, have a diagnosed disability, are International, or are high performing students that are looking for extra help in a class.
Objective:
This position will assist student athletes with a specific class that they may be struggling with, confused on subject matter or need extra assistance to obtain a higher grade.
Responsibilities:
Mentoring and monitoring and teaching a cohort of student-athletes by:
Implementing college-level academic skills and learning strategies.
Implementing personal learning skills to re-teach or review classwork and class materials.
Exam review, writing preparation, skill building, class review and work.
Promoting and facilitating academic and personal growth to help students become independent learners.
Documenting on-going student performance and meeting summaries with up-to-date record keeping through Navigate (UB’s student success portal).
Building and maintaining thoughtful and professional communication with the Athlete Academic Affairs Staff.
Working in a supportive and multi-disciplinary environment.
Hours:
All meetings must take place at the Athlete Academic Affairs Learning Center during business hours (M-Th 8am-9pm, F 8am-4pm, and Sundays 12-6pm).
The nature of this position is very flexible for both you and your student caseload however, meeting days and times should remain consistent throughout the semester.
Given that you will be meeting with student-athletes anywhere from 1-3 times each week (based on pre-determined need), the meetings should be spread out throughout the week to ensure academic task completion. For example, meeting with a student 1 hour each day on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday throughout the semester.
**Ideally looking for candidates that can work 7-15 hours/week across multiple days.
If interested, please email resume and cover letter to:
Are you looking for work? OPPORTUNITY ALERT: We are currently hiring Student Assistants and Work Study Students. Both positions are seeking to fill for multiple positions.
Role Description: We are currently seeking undergraduate students to serve as our Blackstone LaunchPad Student Assistants for project-based student assistant. The major focus of this position is student outreach and recruitment. Work to be performed includes but is not limited to: Creating marketing materials as directed print, online, and social media platforms. Recruiting students to engage in programming by hosting Pop-up events & tabling. Develop and host LaunchPads events (i.e.: competitions, monthly-pitch competition, Open Coffee Club, and Innovation sprints). Assist with tracking of LaunchPad metrics and registration. Promoting a startup culture on campus and in the community. Candidates need to have strong oral and written communication skills to be successful in this position. The position may also require other duties as assigned that are needed by the Center and/or tasks that utilize this person’s personal interests or talents.
The Honors College and EOP are excited to be collaborating in a new program this fall in which Capen 106 will be set aside as a study hall with paid tutors every Monday and Thursday from 2:00-6:00.
The EOP department is in the process of hiring Academic Tutor’s for the upcoming Summer, Fall and Spring semesters. Applicants who select to tutor during the summer will participate as a part of the EOP Summer Bridge Program .
The Summer Tutor position is responsible for providing tutoring support in the areas of Math or Sociology. EOP Summer Bridge Tutors provide academic support and create an open atmosphere of learning for all EOP students. Tutors will serve as a resource and role model to EOP students while providing academic assistance over the course of 5 weeks. The first three weeks will be in-person, tutors will be required to be on campus during this time. The last two weeks will be virtual. The summer program will take place on July 3-August 6 2022.
Supervisor: Kaileigh Saeva, Social Media Specialist, kaileigh@buffalo.edu
716-645-4577, 330 Crofts Hall, UB North Campus
Application Due Date: May 10, 2022
Application Deadline: Applications accepted immediately, until position is filled
Position Start / End Date: Flexible start dates beginning May 2022
Paid Position? Yes ($13.20/hr)
Position Details
Department Profile
UB’s division of University Communications (UC) is responsible for university-wide communications and marketing — including branding, media relations, digital (web, social media), editorial/content, and creative design — for the University at Buffalo (UB). The division is highly visible, nationally recognized, and its award-winning communication products represent the public face of the university. As a member of UC’s Digital Communications & Strategy team, you will help us transform the way content is created, distributed and tracked on social media, the web, and other digital communication platforms. You will support the department’s efforts to monitor and shape perceptions, fulfill information needs and provide exceptional service to external and internal audiences of UB.
As our Social Media Analyst and Operations Assistant youwill focus on analyzing and classifying UB’s social media interactions across our UB social landscape. This includes identifying opportunities for our engagement team to interact with and building relationships with our current and prospective UB community, as well as identifying and routing customer service opportunities, and identifying and classifying trends.
Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will:
Be highly motivated, professional, creative and excited to learn
Be comfortable working in a high-productivity team environment
Embrace an inclusive environment
Demonstrate strong judgement, precise attention to details and strong work ethic
Be a current SUNY student (mandatory)
Ideally, the candidate will remain a SUNY student through May 2023 or later
Hours
This PAID student position requires a weekly commitment of 15-20 hours during the academic semester. This position is fully remote and the scheduled hours are on nights and weekends. Hours are available during breaks.
Responsibilities
The Social Media Analyst and Operations Assistant will work directly with the Social Media Specialist and collaboratively with other members of the UC team to accomplish the following goals:
Continually monitor, classify, triage and escalate opportunities/needs from our online audiences
Support digital analytics activities
Qualifications
Required Skills
Strong understanding of, and experience using social media (including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and TikTok)
Must be a critical thinker, with strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Must have excellent analytical skills
Excellent written and verbal communications are essential
Self Directed
Additional Skills
Experience in Excel, Google Docs
You should:
Have a keen sense of individual responsibility and initiative.
Demonstrate good judgment
Be an enthusiastic team player.
Be able to handle multiple and varied assignments. Effective time management and adherence to deadlines.
Be comfortable collaborating with others and taking direction; Respect for authority and diverse viewpoints
Be able to handle sensitive information with discretion
University Communications (UC) is seeking an organized and self-motivated editorial assistant to work with the editorial team for 8 hours a week. Duties include content creation and management for the university homepage and other editorial/administrative duties as needed. The editorial assistant also serves on a committee tasked with updating the UB style guide to reflect our institutional values of diversity, equity and inclusion. The ideal candidate will have strong writing and research skills, careful attention to detail, a high level of digital literacy and the ability to work productively on a team. Interested candidates should apply at https://www.buffalo.edu/career/bullseye.on-campus-employer.html (posting No. 6279343).
Supervisor: Kaileigh Saeva, Social Media Specialist, kaileigh@buffalo.edu
716-645-4577, 330 Crofts Hall, UB North Campus
Application Due Date: April 27th, 2022
Application Deadline: Applications accepted immediately, until position is filled
Position Start / End Date: Flexible start dates beginning May 2022
Paid Position? Yes ($13.20/hr)
Position Details
Department Profile
UB’s division of University Communications (UC) is responsible for university-wide communications and marketing — including branding, media relations, digital (web, social media), editorial/content, and creative design — for the University at Buffalo (UB). The division is highly visible, nationally recognized, and its award-winning communication products represent the public face of the university. As a member of UC’s Digital Communications & Strategy team, you will help us transform the way content is created, distributed and tracked on social media, the web, and other digital communication platforms. You will support the department’s efforts to monitor and shape perceptions, fulfill information needs and provide exceptional service to external and internal audiences of UB.
As our Social Media Multimedia Content and Engagement Assistant you will focus on promoting UB by creating multimedia assets with strong visual acuity to amplify and enhance the research, stories and people of UB.
Additional tasks include:
Developing thoughtful and inspiring written and multimedia content for social media
Including social videos (such as Instagram stories and TikToks)
Monitoring and engaging with online audiences.
You will also learn how to communicate on behalf of the brand and capture UB’s distinct mission and culture.
Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will:
Be highly motivated, professional, creative and excited to learn
Bring ideas and inspirations to the table
Be comfortable working in a high-productivity team environment
Embrace an inclusive environment and will strive to showcase our diverse community
Demonstrate strong social media, visual and editorial skills
Be a current SUNY student (mandatory)
Ideally, the candidate will remain a SUNY student through May 2023 or later
Hours
This PAID student position requires a weekly commitment of 15-20 hours during the academic semester. Hours are available during breaks.
Due to current construction on Crofts Hall, this position does NOT require in-person work and can be executed remotely until renovations are completed sometime in the Summer of 2022.
Responsibilities
The Social Media Content/Engagement Assistant will work directly with the Social Media Specialist and collaboratively with other members of the UC team to accomplish the following goals:
Plan, write, produce and distribute graphics, copy, video, multimedia and other content on social media
Assist in management and administration of UB’s top-level social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and TikTok)
Coordinate cross-unit social media campaigns
Continually monitor, identify and engage with our online audiences
Support digital analytics activities
Qualifications
Required Skills
Strong understanding of, and experience using social media (including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and TikTok)
Excellent writing (esp. for social)
Good handling of visual presentation
Knowledge of editing tools including Canva, Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator
Additional Skills
Video production skills, especially knowledge of video editing tools (proficiency in Adobe Premiere, After Effects or Final Cut Pro is a plus)
A strong visual (e.g. photo selection) aesthetic
You should:
Have a keen sense of individual responsibility and initiative.
Enthusiastic team player.
Be able to handle multiple and varied assignments. Effective time management and adherence to deadlines.
Be a strong verbal communicator.
Be comfortable collaborating with others and taking direction; Respect for authority and diverse viewpoints
