SUMMARY
The Teaching and Learning innovation fund (TLIF) Grant Project Student Assistant provide support for an TLIF project. TLIF Grant student assistant responsibilities include supporting the TLIF grant project through conducting research, such as carrying out literature reviews, develop questionnaires, tabulating reports. The assistance is also expected to develop reports, presentation material, work with educational media, maintaining web sites and social media platforms. The student assistant is expected to communicate, coordinate, and promote project activities amongst key parties of the project.
This position is reserved for KPU Students only.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct literature reviews and create annotated bibliography of key findings
- Do library and online research as required (e.g., statistics, finding openly licensed images, etc.)
- Assist in the development of questionnaires for data collection, field interviews
- Conduct in-person and online interviews, focus groups, and/or help conduct interviews related to the grant project research
- Tabulate interview results, analysis data, develop reports for project team review
- Develop presentation materials, infographics and follow appropriate attribution, citation, and accessibility guidelines
- Create educational media on a chosen platform (e.g., Kaltura, Camtasia)
- Build and maintain content specific to the grant project in chosen platforms such as Moodle, Word Press and Pebble Pad
- Develop and disseminate communication materials, build social media presence as requested, to support the grant project
- Communicate and coordinate tasks between key parties critical and vital to the project
- Provide support to fellow learners at the direction of TLIF project lead
QUALIFICATIONS
Preference will be given to students with experience in once or more of the following areas:
- Familiarity with conducting literature reviews, research using the KPU library databases
- Work with technology platforms such as Moodle, and/or Pressbooks, and/or WordPress, and/or Kaltura, and/or Pebble Pad
- Familiarity in working with MS Word, Excel, Power Point
- Excellent oral and written communicating skills
- Familiar with working with social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn
SALARY INFORMATION
Student Assistants are paid as per the following:
- Less than one year of post-secondary (less than 30 credits) – BC Minimum Wage
- One year of post-secondary (30-60 credits) – BC Minimum Wage plus 8%
- With a post-secondary diploma or degree – BC Minimum Wage plus 21%
