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

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Prepare 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 and distribute promotional materials for CLAS and World Languages.
• 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 career competencies in Creativity and Problem Solving, Teamwork and Collaboration, Communication Skills, and Leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• The ideal candidate is highly motivated and has completed one Language and one International Studies course at SLCC and is currently continuing their study at the college.
• 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.

Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)

SLCC is Utah’s largest open-access college in the state, educating 45,000+ students pursuing degrees in 100+ programs across 8 areas of study, and welcoming SLCC graduates into Utah’s fastest-growing industries and four-year baccalaureate programs. Every SLCC employee contributes to transforming students' lives to strengthen surrounding communities. SLCC offers retirement benefits and is fully committed to policies of equal employment and nondiscrimination.