The CUPS Program Assistant is a position for the current academic year at 5-10 hours/week. The CUPS Office coordinates academic community engagement at UVM, including the high-impact educational practice of service-learning. Service-learning has a distinguished history UVM. Home and alma mater of John Dewey, the progressive educator, UVM has long valued engagement in community and experiential education as key foundations for citizenship. Learn more about our work at uvm.edu/partners.

We are seeking a detail-oriented undergraduate student, who will provide general support to CUPS staff. This may include: event planning, database work, written reporting, and creating communications materials for print and web. Additionally, the Program Assistant will work on service-learning course designation and regularly communicate with faculty and community partners in service-learning projects.

The ideal candidate should be interested in community engagement and how it works at UVM; be detail-oriented, responsible, and able to track projects over time; be comfortable with typical office software (MS Office, PDF software, etc.) and familiar with databases. Experience working with Filemaker Pro, HTML, and or web content is a plus, but not required. We are happy to train a candidate who is otherwise a good fit for the position. Compensation dependent on experience.

—
Tom Wilson
Program Coordinator

Office of Community-University Partnerships & Service-Learning (CUPS)
109 Harris-Millis Commons | University of Vermont | Burlington, VT 05405
(802) 656-3883 | www.uvm.edu/partnerships
Tom.Wilson@uvm.edu