{"id":19044,"date":"2023-07-26T13:52:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T17:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/?page_id=19044"},"modified":"2025-09-30T17:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:06:37","slug":"graduate-school-professional-development-and-community-development-graduate-assistant-position","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/graduate-school-professional-development-and-community-development-graduate-assistant-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate School Professional Development and Community Development &#8211; Graduate Assistant Position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Department:<\/strong>&nbsp;The URI Graduate School, Professional and Community Development<br><strong>Position:<\/strong>&nbsp;Graduate Assistant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Department Contact Name: Cara Mitnick<br>Eligibility and Remuneration Details:<\/strong>&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/funding\/assistantships\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/funding\/assistantships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Graduate Assistant Eligibility and Benefits<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Position Description:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Graduate School&#8217;s Office of Professional and Community Development provides<br>professional and career programs and services to 2,000+ in person and online master&#8217;s, PhD, and certificate students in all stages of their graduate careers. This support takes the form of programs, workshops, individual advising, online resources, newsletters, a Graduate Writing and Presenting Lab, Equitable &amp; Inclusion Badge Program, Academic Skills Support, and more.<br>The GTA would develop, create, and lead professional development curriculum and<br>programs, and help expand and run our new Equitable and Inclusive Teaching &amp;<br>Pedagogy Badge program. They would update and expand professional development<br>website resources. They would also help organize and run a graduate student poster<br>day and conference together with the Director of Professional and Community Development, assist with event planning and logistical issues, and help students improve their job application materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A successful candidate will demonstrate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Client-oriented, professional, positive attitude and ability to interact respectfully in all interactions with all levels of staff, faculty, students and other constituents<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comfort with ambiguity, demonstrated discretion and confidentiality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Best practices for diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>High degree of accuracy and attention to detail<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interest in graduate career and professional development and community building<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strong computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, webpage software such as HTML or Wix and experience contributing to and\/or managing website content<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fluency with additional tools for design and communications such as Canva or Adobe Creative Suite<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Interested? Send a resume or CV, cover letter, and names of two references to<br>the&nbsp;Graduate&nbsp;School\u2019s Director of Professional Development, Cara Mitnick,<br>at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:cmitnick@uri.edu\" target=\"_blank\">cmitnick@uri.edu<\/a>&nbsp;by August 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information about eligibility and benefits described here:&nbsp; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/funding\/assistantships\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/funding\/assistantships\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graduate Assistantship Eligibility and Benefits<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department:&nbsp;The URI Graduate School, Professional and Community DevelopmentPosition:&nbsp;Graduate Assistant Department Contact Name: Cara MitnickEligibility and Remuneration Details:&nbsp; Graduate Assistant Eligibility and Benefits Position Description:&nbsp; The Graduate School&#8217;s Office of Professional and Community Development providesprofessional and career programs and services to 2,000+ in person and online master&#8217;s, PhD, and certificate students in all stages of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4928,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-19044","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22791,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19044\/revisions\/22791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/graduate-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}