Graduate Assistant Student Life

The Graduate Life Assistant provides support services for the Director of Graduate Life and the Associate Director of Graduate Life, assisting in office functions such as email inbox management, event planning, execution, and engagement with graduate students across disciplines.

• Assist in the development of Graduate Life programming through research, event planning/facilitation, and administrative projects.
• Participate in the creation of a Graduate Life leadership program through tabling and recruitment across campus.
• Assist in the creation of monthly newsletters sent to residential graduate students.
• Take meeting minutes and communicate action items promptly after assigned meetings.
• Organize and inventory departmental promotional materials.
• Maintain departmental email inbox.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Maximum of 20 hours per week, minimum 15 hours per week. Shifts between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Monday – Friday, with occasional evening and weekend hours. Work is on‑site (GH 1887) unless otherwise specified by the Director or Associate Director of Graduate Life.

This position does not have any supervisory responsibilities but may be designated as the point of contact for departmental community service (CSER) students.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education:
  
  Acceptance/enrollment in an LU graduate program.
• Experience:
  
  Understanding of issues related to the graduate off‑campus living experience.
• Demonstrated ability to present and teach to small and large audiences.
• Ability to work occasional evenings and/or weekends.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Professional demeanor.
• Ability to work independently, intentionally, and proactively.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education:
  
  Degree concentration in higher education or leadership.
• Experience:
  
  1–2 years of student leadership experience.
• Previous teaching experience.

• Communication: Effectively communicates in both verbal and written forms; proficient in English and professional correspondence.
• Initiative & Work Ethic: Task oriented, meets deadlines, anticipates needs, and takes proactive steps.
• Leadership & People
  
  Skills:
  
  Builds relational rapport quickly, exhibits emotional intelligence, and collaborates across departments.
• Organization: Detail‑oriented, fixes small errors, and manages own schedule and project timelines.

Frequently required to travel to local and campus locations; sit for extended periods; hear and speak to review content; occasionally stand, walk, and climb stairs; handle materials; regularly lift up to 20 pounds.

Work environment: office setting.

Time Type: Part time.

Location: Onsite.

Pay Rate: Starting at $12.77. Student employees are paid at least the current Virginia minimum wage per hour.

The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring that all management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal and state statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promotion activities for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes.

Our policy and intention to evaluate all employees and prospective employees strictly according to the requirements of the job. All personnel related activities such as compensation, benefits, transfers, job classification, assignments, working conditions, educational assistance, terminations, layoffs, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable state of employment protected classes.

The University is a Christian religious‑affiliated organization; as such, it is not subject to religious discrimination requirements. The University’s hiring practices and EEO discrimination practices are in full compliance with both federal and state law. Federal law creates an exception to the “religion” component of the employment discrimination laws for religious organizations, including educational institutions, and permits them to give employment practice preference to members of their own religious beliefs.