University of Kansas: Undergraduate Writing Consultant (Temp/Freelance)

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University of Kansas is looking for a Undergraduate Writing Consultant Student Hourly. This job has been crawled from the web.

Location: Lawrence, KS

Contract: Temporary

Undergraduate writing consultants are peer educators who meet one-on-one with students in person and online to discuss writing projects in a variety of disciplines and genres. Undergraduate consultants collaborate with writers at any point in the writing process, teach strategies for researching, drafting, organizing, revising, and editing, and direct writers to resources. They also support other KUWC programming, like workshops. Consultants are required to work in-person on the Lawrence campus.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and foster student learning by asking questions, collaborating with writers during consultations, and teaching important writing strategies and concepts
• Contribute to the creation of a safe, inclusive, and collaborative environment for learning
• Lead writing workshops and assist with marketing events
• Participate in pre-service training and ongoing education, trainings, and professional development
• Participate in committees and special projects, bringing your ideas, interests, and skills to expand the collective knowledge and abilities of the Writing Center
• Ability to work at least 8 hours/week and at least one evening/week
• Continuing consultants may be interested in additional roles, such as consultant development facilitator

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate student at KU, enrolled in at least six credit hours
• Excellent written communication skills as evidenced in application materials
• A commitment to the improvement of one’s own writing and professional development as a writing consultant, as demonstrated in application materials
• Willingness to work in multiple modalities (face-to-face, online, videoconference)

Preferred Qualifications:

• A Federal Work-Study (FWS) award for the academic year
• Previous experience as a writing consultant or peer tutor at a high school or college
• Experience with public speaking
• An investment in helping writers reach their academic goals with strong listening skills, sensitivity, generosity, and flexibility
• Experience working productively with diverse populations