I’m reaching out to you to see if you might be able to help
Gloria J. Parks Community Center recruit some STEM instructors for their Summer
Camp, which runs July 8 to August 16. They have a budget to support
purchasing materials and equipment, and to hire 6 instructors for $18/hour for
10 hours per week, plus a week of preparation before the camp begins.
They acquired 4 sets of 12 Chromebook laptops this spring to
help our youth program integrate more on-line curricula. And we now have
a Smart Board on a portable cart. But we will purchase more equipment and
supplies given the plans and needs of the new instructors.
I’m wondering if any of you know undergraduate and/or
graduate students who might be interested.
I’ve attached a flyer that you could forward out to your
groups’ social media and email lists. We’d like to get resumes by June 3, and start interviews the following week so
people can plan their summers, as well for us to meet and organize the supply
and equipment orders once we have the team of 6 instructors.
This will be a great experience in translating Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Math concepts into hands-on activities with
children ages 5 to 14 years old. Even if you are never planning to teach
for a living, this kind of experience may influence and inspire your work and
volunteer life for many years to come.
Thanks so much for the help.
Michael A. Tritto Jr.
Associate Director of Operations
and Human Services
University District Community
Development Association, Inc.
Explore Buffalo is seeking a full-time Education Coordinator with an engaging and enthusiastic personality to join our energetic and professional team in support of the organization’s mission of promoting Buffalo and Western New York history, architecture and neighborhoods through quality education to learners of all ages. Responsibilities: Youth Education Programming Manage Explore Buffalo’s youth education programs, including but not limited to: • Coordinate tours for K-12 schools and colleges: o Act as primary point of contact for groups planning their tour, including confirming tour details, arranging payment, scheduling docents for the tour, communicating tour details to docents, coordinating Activity Book distribution to schools (if applicable), thanking groups after the tour, and requesting tour feedback. o Work with Education Committee to develop School Tours and associated supplementary materials. o Maintain an awareness of current school curriculum and learning standards to ensure School Tours and materials connect with requirements. Distribute continuing education opportunities and reading materials to School Docents as appropriate. o Cultivate new relationships with college programs, school districts, and other youth programs to expand the Education Program’s impact. • Oversee Explore Buffalo youth educational programs, including the Scouts BSA Architecture Merit Badge Workshop, Explore the Summer, Architecture & Use Workshop, and Junior Explorers Workshop. o Work with community partners and the Education Committee to schedule and deliver all aspects of the programs, including but not limited to developing promotional materials and program content, scheduling volunteers, training new volunteers, etc. Docent Training Primary staff support for Explore Buffalo’s Docent Training programs, which include three new docent classes per year and a continuing education program (Explore Buffalo University): • Participate in the Docent Training Committee’s planning process for each training program. • Work with other staff to facilitate promotion of docent training and recruitment of new docents. • Attend each training class, providing administrative and logistical support. • Be the primary staff liaison for trainees in the docent training program. • Supervise the School Docent Certification program, working with the Education Committee. o Recruit school docents to ensure Education Program docent needs are met o Review all school docents annually to ensure a high-quality experience for schools. Adult Education Programming Manage Explore Buffalo’s non-tour adult educational programs, including but not limited to: • Manage the Speaker Series, History/Architecture Courses, and Teacher Center Courses: o Work with volunteers, and community partners where applicable, to coordinate program schedules, content, and implementation. • Manage the Guest Speaker program: o Act as primary point of contact for groups booking Guest Speaker engagements, including confirming program details, arranging payment, scheduling docents, communicating program details to docents, thanking groups after their program, and maintaining an active database of available talks. • Facilitate training and feedback for docents preparing new presentations. • Innovate other educational programs as applicable and oversee their development and implementation. Development Support Support education-focused fundraising efforts: • Administer use of the Education Fund, tracking the use of available funds. • Administer grant funding, maintaining records as required by funders for accountability. • Develop and maintain relationships with donors and other funders. Other • Establish and maintain good working relationships with other cultural, nonprofit, and historical organizations in WNY. • Represent Explore Buffalo in a professional, personable manner through tabling, speaking engagements, attendance at community partner events and Explore Buffalo events, etc. • Assist with general office tasks and major events as needed, and other duties as they may develop. Qualifications: • Enthusiastic and energetic personality • Flexibility and adaptability in a fast-paced work environment • Strong organizational skills • Ability to work independently and with a team, depending on the task • Attention to detail; ability to coordinate multiple tasks simultaneously • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Comfortable speaking in front of groups at all age levels (youth, adult, senior) • Bachelor’s Degree (Education degree is encouraged, but not required) • Non-profit experience is encouraged, particularly with a cultural organization and/or in an educational setting • Experience working with youth is strongly encouraged • Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs • Primarily regular office hours, with various evenings and weekends required • Must have reliable transportation
To apply, please contact Executive Director and Honors Alum, Brad Hahn: brad@explorebuffalo.org
Supervisor: Erin Goetz,
Social Media Specialist, eringoet@buffalo.edu
716-645-4654, 330
Crofts Hall, UB North Campus
Application Due Date: April 21, 2018
Application Deadline: Applications
accepted immediately, until position is filled
Position Start Date: Position
is available to start immediately. Start date is flexible
Paid Position? Yes
($11.35/hr)
2. 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 Assistant Analyst you will focus on helping to
organize and mature the information and reporting systems in our best-of-class
Social Media Management system (Sprinklr) and use it to analyze and report on UB’s
impact in the social media landscape.
Candidate Profile
The
successful candidate will:
Be
highly motivated, professional, creative and excited to learn
Bring
ideas and inspirations to the table
Be
a big picture thinker who is extremely detail oriented
Be
comfortable working in a high-productivity team environment
Demonstrate
strong social media and analytical skills
Be
a current SUNY student (mandatory)
Ideally, the candidate
will remain a SUNY student through May 2020 or later
Hours
This PAID student position requires a weekly commitment of 15-20
hours. Successful candidates will be available to work summer 2018 and ideally
continue through spring 2019.
All work (unless otherwise agreed) is to be conducted in UC
offices in Crofts Hall on UB’s North Campus.
Responsibilities
The Social Media Assistant
Analyst will work directly with the Social Media Specialist, and
collaboratively with other members of the UC team to accomplish the following
goals using UC’s social media management tool (Sprinklr):
Assessment
of Social Media organic (our channels) and paid (advertising) performance,
as well as identifying trends in the social landscape
E.g. Defining and measuring key
performance indicators on each social channel
Content/campaign
performance
E.g. Measuring performance for all
outbound content during March Madness
Identifying
and maturing information architecture and systems
E.g. Developing tagging structure to
effectively benchmark like content/posts that can be scaled for units
across the university
E.g. Use tagging structure to analyze
data, identify trends and optimize future posts
Support
and project logistics
Assist in management and administration of UB’s top-level social
media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and
Pinterest
Support digital analytics activities
Qualifications
Must have strong user knowledge of social media, web and mobile
platforms (this is NOT a programming position. It is an information
organization, system and analysis position)
Must be a critical thinker, with strong organizational skills and
attention to detail
Must have excellent analytical skills
Ability to recognize and classify content
Excellent written and verbal communications are essential
Effective time management and adherence to deadlines
Experience in Excel, Google Docs required
Experience with Google Analytics a plus
Keen sense of individual responsibility and initiative. Self-directed
Desire to learn and explore new and existing technologies
Supervisor: Erin Goetz,
Social Media Specialist, eringoet@buffalo.edu
716-645-4654, 330
Crofts Hall, UB North Campus
Application Due Date: April 21,
2019
Application Deadline: Applications
accepted immediately, until position is filled
Position Start / End Date: Flexible
start dates beginning May 2019
Paid Position? Yes
($11.35/hr)
2.
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 – including graphics, GIFs,
Instagram stickers and social videos (such as Instagram Stories) as well as
video content that tell our distinct UB story and inspire our online audiences.
Additional tasks include curating and producing innovative,
thoughtful and inspiring content for social media, and monitoring and engaging
with online audiences. You will also learn to 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
Demonstrate
strong social media, visual and editorial skills
Be
a current SUNY student (mandatory)
Ideally, the candidate
will remain a SUNY student through May 2020 or later
Hours
This
PAID student position requires a weekly commitment of 15-20 hours during the
academic semester and 20 hours during summer 2019. Hours are available
during breaks.
All work (unless otherwise agreed)
is to be conducted in UC offices in Crofts Hall on UB’s North Campus.
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 video, multimedia and other
content on social media
Assist in management and administration of UB’s top-level social
media platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn, and
Pinterest
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, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat,
YouTube, LinkedIn and Pinterest)
Video production skills, esp. knowledge of
video editing tools including Adobe
Premiere (proficiency in Adobe After
Effects or Final Cut Pro is a plus)
Graphic design and multimedia skills,
esp. knowledge of editing tools including Adobe Photoshop or Adobe
Illustrator
Excellent writing (esp. for web and
social)
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
Be a leader in a vibrant
community of talented and enthusiastic high-school students and energetic
faculty.
Teach and learn what most
interests you, in an atmosphere of freedom and excitement.
Be a friend and mentor to 120
marvelous kids.
Be an architect of an
experience that those 120 kids will cherish for years.
Canada/USA Mathcamp (www.mathcamp.org) is a
summer program for talented high school students from all over the United
States, Canada, and the rest of the world. At Mathcamp, students interact with
world-class mathematicians, explore advanced topics in mathematics, and find a
true intellectual peer group.
The mentor job is a hybrid between
a teaching position and a camp counselor role. Your primary responsibility is
to teach great classes, and you’ll be doing this in the context of a
residential summer program: you live, eat, and play with the campers. It’s a
lot of work and a lot of fun.
As a mentor at Mathcamp, you get
an amazing teaching experience: there is no set curriculum, so you create your
own classes and teach the math you’re interested in. From group theory to
projective geometry, from complex analysis to cryptography, from fractals to
voting theory – there is an abundance of mathematics that can be taught (with a
little imagination) at camp level. You’ll have support (in both curriculum
design and pedagogy) from master teachers, and you’ll work with students who
are exceptionally smart and engaged.
Mentors are also the camp’s
primary leaders and organizers, and cultivate the rich life of the camp by
planning activities, setting camp policy, and serving as residential
counselors—essentially, running the camp, and bringing it to life with creative
ideas, inside and outside the classroom. Initiative, flexibility, and tolerance
for a certain degree of chaos are a must—that is part of what makes Mathcamp an
exciting place to work!
Since women and minority students
often face a shortage of role models in mathematics, we are especially eager to
recruit mentors from these groups.
I wanted to reach out to you because we are currently looking to hire several creative, innovative and detail-oriented students to help us tell the UB story on the institution’s primary social media accounts.
These paid positions are a wonderful opportunity for anyone who would like to challenge themselves to grow their creative, problem solving, storytelling, human behaviors or critical thinking skills – or for students who want to build skills in communications on social media.
Honors students really do well with us. Their humor and creativity make them outstanding candidates. And as you know, many of the honors students you have placed with us have gone on to do great things.
Our Video and Content students not only craft stories (including video content), but analyze performance.
Our Operations students collaborate to design and mature our information and measurement systems and information architecture in our best-of-class Social Media Management system (Sprinklr) uses it to analyze and report on UB’s impact in the social media landscape.
We prepare our students for careers in social media marketing and our past student assistants have gone on to have incredible experiences. In the last few years alone, our students have secured internships and jobs at global companies such as Hulu, Casper, The Smithsonian Institution and more.
The positions we are hiring for are as follows (see attached job descriptions for details):
Please feel free to share with students or faculty members who would know of any stand-outs student to work with us as we continue to elevate our UB social media channel performance.
This paid position does not have a tuition waiver; however, it is a great learning position for experienced students with skills that they want to sharpen in this area.
Honors College Work Study/Student Assistant Description:
The primary responsibility of the Work Study/Student Assistant (SA) is to support the Honors College Front
Desk/Reception area by providing general office support to the Honors College’s professional staff including:
Answering telephones
Greeting Honors College guests
Answering basic questions
Scheduling Advising appointments
Checking students in for appointments
Upkeep of Don Shack Student Lounge
Mailing (some large)
Copying
Assist with room reservation inquires
Assist with programs and events
Completing special projects
Other duties as assigned
Preferred Qualifications:
Ability to communicate in a clear and friendly manner
Customer service orientation
Strong organizational skills
Previous office work, desired but not necessary.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel
Must be accurate, dependable, friendly and willing to work on a team
Desired Availability:
Flexible availability to work for up to ten hours weekly between the hours of 8:15am – 4:30pm
Office Profile:
The University Honors College has a staff of a Director, Administrative Director, three Assistant
Directors, two Academic Advisors and a Graduate Assistant. The Student Assistant/Work Study students
will report directly to the UGE Assistant Finance/HR Manager who also serves as the Honors Office
Manager. Work assignments can be assigned from all Honors College professional staff members.
Interested students, please contact Douglas Hoston at prov.dlhoston@ubitmail.buffalo.edu
716.645.6036.
The Career Experience Program, supported by the NYS Centers of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences and in Materials Informatics, pays UB students to work at local life science or engineering companies. The positions companies are seeking to fill are varied and cross a range of disciplines, including engineering, graphic design, grant writing, lab sciences, computer science and business.
The positions are paid $13.50/hour and are for a total of 144 hours during the Spring 2019 Semester.
These positions are now posted in Bullseye and companies are ready to hire! Search by Keywords, “Career Experience Program”.
