Department:

Location:

Belknap Campus, Health Sciences Center

Time Type:

Full time

Worker Type:

Temporary (Fixed Term)

Job Req ID:

R104010

Minimum Requirements:

Six or more years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training and work experience.

Position Description:

Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) Grant Project Student Development Assistant (SDA)

This is a temporary grant funded position from May 2024-July 2024 which will re quire shift work.  

Supervision and Communication

• Serve as the first point of contact for the scholar participants. Which includes managing scholar GroupMe, helping disseminate information, assisting with getting scholars connected to the correct resources, etc.

• Track scholar attendance during all sessions, and track attendance for buses.

• Reach out to scholars if they are late or absent from a session and/or designated meeting time.

• Assist scholars with course content, technical challenges, and responding to scholar requests.

• Serve as chaperones on weekend activities, service events, ride on buses etc.

• Enforce program rules/regulations/restrictions.

Mentorship

• Support and foster relationships between scholars within the cohort and the SDA team.

• Help supervise, tutor, and mentor a group of ten scholars through the cluster system.

• Be willing to talk about your journey to your health professional school.

• Attend all programmatic components.

• Serve as tutors. Participants will have time set aside to study as a group; your job is to make sure that they understand the information.  (This is why it is critical for you to attend sessions.)

Programming

• Plan social activities for participants, and lead at least one small group activity per week.

• Have icebreakers or activities ready when presenters cancel or are running late.

• Suggest and assist with optional programming initiatives (i.e. volunteer opportunities, study session etc.).

Administrative Duties

• Assist with scholar registration, and housing check in and out.

• Monitor participants to check for health issues; transport to emergency/urgent care centers if needed.

• Serve in an on call rotation

• Report scholar misconduct.

• Communicate with the SHPEP Leadership team when/if issues arise.

• Assist with orientation activities, and course content.

• Help support scholars in their engagement in the program.

• Any other duties the SHPEP Leadership team deems would be beneficial to add to help with the impact and integrity of the program.

• Other Duties as assigned

Preferred Experience and Education

• Has received a bachelor’s degree.

• Must be entering or attending a health professional school (i.e. dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy) and/or taking a gap with the intention of attending health professional school. 

• Participant of a summer pipeline program (i.e. SHPEP/SMDEP, MCAT-DAT, PEPP, Gear Up, etc.).

• Able to support the program for the full 7 weeks (May 2024-July 2024).

• Enthusiastic about mentoring and supporting scholars and the SHPEP Program.

The Health Science Center Office of Diversity & Inclusion encourages candidates to apply who have demonstrated capacity to create inclusive work environments, will work effectively on increasingly diverse teams, and will serve the increasingly diverse students we admit and want to attract.

Target Compensation : $15.00/hr. for up to 40 hours/week. During the first two virtual weeks of the program (June 3-June 14), Student Development Assistants will work shifts, including up to two 12-hour shifts from 7 AM-7 PM, one evening shift from 5 PM-9 PM, and one overnight on-call shift from 7 PM-7 AM each week and will include weekends.

Compensation will be commensurate to candidate experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Louisville is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, age, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status, pregnancy, or veteran status. If you are unable to use our online application process due to an impairment or disability, please contact the Employment team at employment@louisville.edu or 502.852.6258.

Assistance and Accommodations

Computers are available for application submission at the Human Resources Department located at 215 Central Avenue, Ste 205 - Louisville, Kentucky 40208.

If you require assistance or accommodation with our online application process, please contact us by email at employment@louisville.edu or by phone 502-852-6258.