Position Title: Senior Peer Educator
Department: Ctr Student Success and Retention
Advertised Pay: 12.00
Campus Location: Washburn University
Position Summary:
Senior Peer Educators assist with the coordination of FYE and Center for Student Success programs, provide leadership for active peer educators, including supplemental trainings, monthly meetings, and individual check-ins as well provide general office assistance and support to FYE and Center for Student Success.
About Washburn University:
Washburn University is a teaching-focused, student-centered, public institution located in the metropolitan setting of Topeka that has earned national recognition for its high-impact programs for first-generation students. Washburn has a student body of over 5,500 undergraduate, graduate, and law students, a significant and growing number of whom are first-generation and Pell-Grant eligible. The University has created educational pathways for all students to be successful and achieve their educational goals.
Washburn is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a dynamic faculty, staff, and student body and cultivating a robust learning and working environment and curriculum. We employ more than one thousand faculty and staff on our campuses throughout Topeka and strive to offer competitive wages, an excellent benefits program, and a supportive culture and a healthy work/life balance. Washburn seeks to create an environment that reflects our core values for creating positive IMPACT: inclusion, modernization, partnership, achievement, community and transformation. In 2024, Washburn was recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to Great Colleges to Work For® program.
Essential Functions:
• Coordinate monthly Peer Educator meeting during the fall and spring semester. Each Senior Peer Educator will coordinate 3 meetings.
• Work with fellow Senior Peer Educator to script weekly emails for the entire peer educator cohort.
• Assist in recruitment of future Peer Educators.
• With FYE staff, plan and execute the Peer Educator training program during the spring sem.
• Meet weekly with FYE staff.
• Position will work 10 hour per week for the duration of the academic year.
Non-Essential Functions:
Provide general office assistance as needed for FYE and Center for Student Success. This can include phone calls and other typical office work.
Required Qualifications:
Candidate must be an active peer educator with at least one year of service as a peer educator.
Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge of basic computer skills.
Outgoing, reliable, and professional.
Ability to interact well with others.
Effective communication skills
Must be an independent worker and self-motivated.
Hourly
Background Check Required