Student Employment - Specialist I, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) (Part Time)

Job Summary

The Center for Latin American Studies is an interdisciplinary center focused on supporting Latin American-based activities including teaching, research, and community engagement. We are in search of student workers at the Center for Latin American Studies to support the Center’s plans and initiatives. This position is ideal for a student studying International Studies or World Languages.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide light general office support, such as greeting guests at events, photocopying, printing, scanning, answering phone calls, taking messages, and maintaining common areas.
• Set up and manage International Studies and World Languages listservs and send out monthly newsletters to help promote the visibility of languages and CLAS across the college.
• Plan, organize, and host student events (daytime and occasional evenings).
• Create effective social media posts to promote language study related to the interdisciplinary nature of Latin American Studies and SLCC’s Languages Program.
• Promote events through social media and the distribution of flyers around SLCC campus(es).
• Support CLAS initiatives as needed.

Knowledge & Skills & Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of people with a variety of abilities and backgrounds, to maintain good working relationships across the College.
• Ability to work with all groups from a variety of academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, and with community college students, faculty, and staff, including those with disabilities.
• Develop and distribute promotional materials for CLAS and World Languages.
• Promote events through social media and the distribution of flyers around SLCC campus(es).

Minimum Qualifications

• A current SLCC student.
• Awarded funds through SLCC's Career Services via the Work Study Program.
• A passing grade in at least one class with a professor associated with CLAS.
• A 2.0 GPA.
• Taking 6 credit hours for fall and spring semester.

Preferred Qualifications

• Highest degree of motivation.
• Completed one Language and one International Studies course at SLCC.
• Academically curious.
• Interested in and capable of graphic design.
• Believes strongly in the importance of helping others build language and cultural skills in order to participate effectively in globalized 21st-century communities.

SLCC Information

• Salt Lake Community College is Utah’s largest open-access college in the state.
• We proudly educate 45,000+ students pursuing degrees in 100+ programs across 8 areas of study, and Utah’s fastest growing industries and four-year baccalaureate programs consistently welcome SLCC graduates.
• Every SLCC employee has a hand in transforming students’ lives to strengthen its surrounding communities.
• SLCC employees work at 8 locations across the valley and capital city of Salt Lake with easy access to the beautiful Wasatch Mountains, world-class outdoor recreation, sporting events, museums, history, and arts and entertainment.
• SLCC is fully committed to policies of equal employment and nondiscrimination. The College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, religion, protected veteran status, expression of political or personal beliefs outside of the workplace, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.