Student Assistant - Field Services Division, Grand Rapids

Job Description

The Student Assistant will provide support to the Field Services Division of the Bureau of Services for Blind Persons, performing general office duties such as preparing documents, distributing materials to customers, scanning and uploading documents, filing, and data entry. The Student Assistant will also communicate with customers, BSBP staff, and community partners via email, phone, and virtual meetings.

• Perform general office duties including document preparation, material dissemination, scanning/uploading, filing, and data entry.
• Communicate with customers, BSBP staff, and community partners via email, phone, and virtual meetings.

• Current enrollment in high school, vocational or technical school, or post‑secondary educational institution.
• No specific type or amount of experience is required.

• Must provide evidence of enrollment or acceptance to an educational institution and a college transcript where applicable.
• Employees in this classification are limited to a maximum of 129 work hours per month; students must enroll in at least six credit hours each term.
• Salary is entirely federally funded. Under federal law, such employees may not be elected officials in a partisan election.
• All newly hired state employees must complete a pre‑employment drug test and, when required, a background check, including state criminal, fingerprint‑based, and driving record checks.
• The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity participates in E‑Verify and will provide the federal government with the applicant’s I‑9 information to confirm authorization to work in the U.S.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or selection processes, please contact the ADA coordinator for the agency posting this position.