Your job is to intentionally create Deep Dives for PLCers to expose your peers to meaningful topics, important people doing the work, and possibilities for solutions to systemic social issues. Deep Dives are informative and interactive, one or two-day-long events tailored to inspire exploration and leadership within issues with many social intersectionalities in Colorado. A lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion can be found in all industries, but people tend to only focus on the industry as a stand-alone instead of considering everything that it impacts and is impacted by. By focusing on the intersections of social issues, we as developing leaders, can better understand the current problems and future solutions. Furthermore, Deep Dives serve to align the academics, community, experiential education and service pillars of PLC - aligning the program. Pay Rate = $3,250/Academic Year

Specific responsibilities include:

  • Identifying Deep Dive topics and associated intersecting concerns to explore
  • Designing, coordinating, implementing and attending four (3-6) Deep Dives (to include identifying, contacting, and organizing speakers and site-visits)
  • Ensuring a tight integration between the academic and experiential programs, and delivering high-quality, well-organized, innovative site visits and speakers
  • Ensuring appropriate contact and follow-through (e.g. thank you cards) with experiential program providers such as weekend hosts and speakers
  • Developing briefing materials for students to use in preparation for program activities - readings, questions, post-trip reflections
  • Administering PLC Belonging Survey both pre- and post-trip for longitudinal data collection
  • Tracking and reviewing attendance and post-trip assignments
  • Working with professional staff to track experiential programming-related expenditures
  • Holding weekly office hours with your staff counterpart. (~4 hours/week)
  • Attending weekly student staff meetings - PRLC 2930 (Tuesdays 8-9:15am)
  • Performing other duties as assigned, including staff support for orientation activities, off-campus programs, and admissions programming

What you’ll learn in the position:

  • Outreach skills
  • Flexibility, adaptability to fast-changing plans
  • Project management skills
  • Budget planning and accountability
  • Exceptional networking skills
  • Communication, public speaking, and community relations skills

(Note that, depending on your ability to stay organized, work efficiently as a team, and stay on top of your goals, this position can require some weeks of over 10-15 hours.  At times the responsibilities of this position can be very time-consuming.  Please take this into account when deciding to apply.)