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The TLC accepts applications for student employees through Handshake. The writing center usually hires the majority of students to begin working in autumn quarter, though we accept applications year-round. We are always accepting applications for quantitative tutors. If you are ready to learn and grow through working at the Teaching & Learning Center as either a tutor in writing, math, science, computer science, business and accounting or as an office assistant, we'd like to hear from you.

Why work at the TLC

  • Gain professional experience with leadership, presenting information, and communication.
  • Work with other peer tutors in an academic environment and build deeper knowledge of your own field.
  • Develop your resume for graduate school and scholarship applications.
  • Help others learn.
  • Accommodate your classes and other obligations with flexible scheduling.

What you can expect

  • A fairly busy and dynamic environment
  • Opportunities for personal projects and professional growth
  • Close collaboration with students and other staff

Application Process

  • Submit the required documents (click on the job description of interest below for application requirements).
  • Interviews will be scheduled after applicant documents are reviewed.
  • If you are hired, we will process your paperwork.

Job Descriptions

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Office Assistant

Duties and responsibilities

  • Thoroughly learn writing center processes, policies, and staff profiles in order to help students schedule appointments and trouble-shoot
  • Work in teams with peer writing consultants to manage and accommodate student tutorials, direct student inquiries, and support smooth transitions between appointments and shifts
  • Navigate scheduling, re-scheduling, and cancellations with students
  • Learn common technology trouble-shooting, such as Zoom, converting pdfs and editing pdfs, attaching and deleting files, etc.
  • Provide excellent customer service, including friendly greetings, thorough explanations, and modeling information-seeking behavior
  • Manage and add to FAQs and question logs/scenarios
  • Manage phone calls and messages, email, and live-chat
  • Provide clerical and office support when needed, including picking up mail, copying, etc.
  • Room scheduling/calendars (not sure what this will look like in our new space)
  • Develop professional competency/experience in an area of interest, including social media, data/assessment, leadership, technical writing, etc.

Qualifications

  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Good problem-solving skills
  • Must have a strong desire to help students in an academic support setting
  • Good computer skills including knowledge of Google Suite, MS Office suite
  • ​Organized and calm under pressure

Application process

Quantitative Tutor

Duties and responsibilities

  • Help students to understand concepts behind their work and develop stronger quantitative skills
  • Help students develop learning strategies
  • Attend training and scheduled meetings
  • Assist with workshops, orientations, and classroom visits

Qualifications

  • Excellent math, quantitative, and communication abilities; minimum 3.0 in relevant courses
  • Understanding of Excel and/or SPSS/R
  • Ability to clearly explain ideas and concepts in a collaborative manner
  • Maths/CSS/Engineering tutors are required to take a mathematics assessment (exam).

Application process

  • Send a resume, application, unofficial transcripts, and faculty reference to uwtteach@uw.edu
  • The second stage of the application process involves a 30 minute technical interview.
Remote Graduate Support (Statistics) Quantitative Consultant

This position is designed to provide support to graduate students at UW Tacoma in the following disciplines: Nursing, Social Work, Business Analytics. These programs all require Statistics knowledge and some programming knowledge.

Duties and responsibilities

  • Provide remote support to graduate students to understand concepts behind their work and develop stronger quantitative skills
  • Provide statistics application support for programs such as: R, SQL, SPSS, Excel
  • Attend training and scheduled meetings
  • Assist with workshops, orientations, and classroom visits

Qualifications

  • Excellent math, quantitative, and communication abilities; minimum 3.0 in relevant courses
  • Must be proficient in R
  • Must be proficient in Python or similar programming language
  • Must have taken the following statistics courses or equivalent:
    • STAT 502 Design and Analysis of Experiments
    • STAT 503 Practical Methods for Data Analysis
    • STAT 504 Applied Regression
  • Ability to clearly explain ideas and concepts in a collaborative manner

 

Desired qualifications

 

  • Familiarity with the following in order of importance: SQL, SPSS, Tableau, Qualtrics
  • Time Series and Arima method

Application process

  • Send a resume, application, unofficial transcripts, and faculty reference to uwtteach@uw.edu
  • Must take and pass the TLC graduate statistics support assessment.
Writing Tutor

Duties and responsibilities

  • Work with students to help them understand assignments, clarify ideas, and develop as writers.
  • Attend training and scheduled meetings.
  • Assist with workshops, orientations, and classroom visits.
  • Develop handouts, web content, and other resources for the TLC.
  • Perform light reception duties.

Qualifications

  • Current UW student available to work at least one full academic year (three quarters)
  • Excellent listening, responding, and analytical reading skills
  • Knowledge of or interest in different writing styles and genres
  • Interest in developing further as a writer
  • Ability to explain and demonstrate concepts in multiple ways
  • Desire to work with all writers at UWT and to help others learn and understand
  • Proficiency with word processing software, especially Microsoft Word
  • Commitment to the anti-racist and inclusive mission of our writing center

Application Process

Our application is now available in the UW Handshake system. Please submit the following documents through Handshake.

We  have made a video for applicants to get a sense of the kind of work writing tutors at UWT do. Watch the video here.

Please watch the video and then send the following documents to Kelvin Keown at kelvin3@uw.edu:

  • Resume or cv
  • One sample of your writing (preferably in an academic genre)
  • A faculty recommendation (may be sent directly by your recommender)
  • A cover letter reflecting on your own experiences as a writer and how you envision contributing to tutoring work. Please address the following questions, ideally using specific examples:
    • How do your writing practices relate to academic discourses and other communities you belong to?
    • How has feedback from others influenced your writing and what kinds of feedback do you give others on their writing?
    • How did the video confirm or challenge your assumptions about being a writing tutor?
    • What characteristics and skills would you bring to the writing center?

Compensation

https://hr.uw.edu/comp/student-employees/

Peer Success Mentor

Duties and responsibilities

  • Maintain a schedule at the Teaching and Learning Center and drop-in hours at MAT213
  • Provide one-on-one or group coaching to help other first gen students and their peers, discuss study habits, set academic goals and develop effective learning strategies
  • Attend required trainings throughout every quarter regarding mentoring models, learning tools and techniques
  • Create and implement skill building sessions for first generation students that will strengthen their academic success

Qualifications

The Peer Success Mentor must be a UW Tacoma returning student in good standing with the University. The peer mentor must maintain a 3.0 UW cumulative GPA. In addition, an ideal candidate will meet the following qualifications:

  • Ability to use critical thinking to troubleshoot and problem-solve
  • Well-organized, ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines and provide high-level of accuracy
  • Ability to work with diverse individuals and groups
  • Willingness to learn and produce quality work
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Experience with Microsoft word, Office 365, G-suite 

Application process

  • Visit Handshake to view job posting and submit cover letter and resume.