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Undergraduate Program Assistant

Apply now(opens in a new window) Job No: 508139
Division/Organization: College of Letters & Science
Department: Center For Healthy Minds
Job Type: UW Student Jobs
Remote Eligbility: Not Remote
Location: UW Madison
Salary/Wage Range or Lump Sum: $15.00 /hr
Job Categories: Interpersonal Communication, Digital Technology, Teamwork/Collaboration, Professionalism/Work Ethic, Communications, Broadcasting, and Media Arts, Honoring Context and Culture

Department Overview:

 At the Center for Healthy Minds, we've identified four core values that guide our work toward our larger mission of a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world. Each member of our community is responsible for upholding these values and embodying them in their work.

1. Conducting our work with rigor
2. Making an impact on the world
3. Cultivating a prosocial workplace
4. Improving diversity, equity and inclusion

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds (CHM) is a leader in conducting science - in and out of the lab - on how to nurture emotional well-being in daily life, considering the complexity of our human experience. Because of societal inequities in science and academia, as well as the disproportionate harm that marginalized members of our society experience - such as Black, Indigenous, People of color (BIPOC), people from poor and working-class backgrounds, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ+ and non-binary identities, etc.- we believe these identities must be centered in our work in order to fulfill a vision of a kinder, wiser, more compassionate world.

Anticipated Start Date:

 January 21, 2025

Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):

 December 10, 2025

Remote Work Eligibility Detail:

Not Remote

 

Anticipated Hours Per Week:

 10

Schedule:

 Relatively flexible within 9a-5p working hours

Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:

 $15.00 /hr

Number of Positions:

 1

Qualifications:

 - Ability to work in a collaborative environment while also demonstrating independence and motivation to advance individual tasks
- Strong interest in developing outreach/communication skills such as website development, newsletter drafting, and meeting scheduling
- Familiarity with Google Suite Tools (e.g., Google Docs, Sheets, Forms, etc.) and Office 365

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Preferred, but not required:
- Experience with website design and construction using drag-and-drop website platforms such as Wix, SquareSpace, etc.
- Familiarity with using email platforms such as Mailchimp
- Interest and familiarity with social media outreach
- Interest and/or experience with copywriting and content creation

Position Summary/Job Duties:

In this position, you will support the communications and outreach activities of the Plasticity of Well-Being Research Network based at the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison. This position will be supervised by Research Assistant Professor Dr. Christine Wilson-Mendenhall and Research Program Coordinator Pablo Aquiles-Sanchez.

The Plasticity of Well-being Network is funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to advance research on emotional well-being. The network brings together researchers across a broad range of fields, including psychology, microbiology, community-based research, computer engineering, population health and biology, and the humanities. One of the network’s initiatives is supporting a collective of emerging scholars (e.g., graduate students, postdocs, early-career faculty)--the “WeMerge” Emerging Well-being Scholars Collective. Members of the WeMerge collective are currently engaged in projects that focus on how we do research–the emotional well-being of scholars and stakeholders (i.e., the people the research is intended to impact) involved in the research process. This work is developing new frameworks for transforming structural and interpersonal dynamics in higher education and research practices. The individual in this role will primarily work on outreach and communications regarding the work of the WeMerge Collective, as well as provide some basic communications support to community-engaged research initiatives.

Job Duties
- Help plan, design and create website for WeMerge activities and resources, as well as maintain website content
- Help draft and disseminate WeMerge newsletter
- Help create additional outreach materials and event advertisements for the WeMerge Collective and the network’s related community-engaged research initiative

Physical Demands:

Primarily sitting and standing. Required to work at a computer for majority of tasks.

Institutional Statements:

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu

Accommodation Statement:

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
 
 

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