Graduate Assistant - Advancing Racial Equity (ARE) Initiative, Office of Student Affairs

This graduate assistantship will be from September 2023 to May 2023 with tuition (excluding differentials) & selected fee waiver eligibility and stipend. 20 hours/ per week.   

Key graduate assistant responsibilities:

• Gathering information across the division (ie. learning outcomes, missions statement, goals)
• Data analysis/create dashboards
• Create a literature review/best practices
• Coordinate/support working groups efforts
• Prepare presentations and reports
• Provide administrative support for the ARE initiative

To be fully considered please send potential candidates and/resumes to Joy Vergara (RVergara@uic.edu) by August 29^th, 2023. Interviews will be held on Friday, September 1^st. 

Research Assistantship - Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing

About the center: The Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing (GLCFHW)
is one of twelve NIOSH Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health that are funded to conduct
occupational disease and injury prevention research, develop and implement educational
programs and interventions, and connect with governmental and nongovernmental agencies to
improve conditions surrounding agricultural health and safety. A main focus of the center is
working with farmworkers, many of whom are Spanish-speaking and born in Mexico and
Central America.

Opportunity: The Center is hiring one graduate level Research Assistant to assist with
outreach. Commitment is 10 hrs/week and will come with tuition remission for the Fall 2023
semester.

Reports to: Deputy Director, Gabriela Gracia.

Please upload a resume/CV along with a brief statement of interest here by 12

pm Tuesday, Aug 29.

Public Lands Transportation Fellows - The Western Transportation Institute, Montana State University

The 2023 Public Lands Transportation Fellows Program provides paid opportunities to advance the transportation workforce by attracting our next generation of public stewards to the field of transportation— through unique opportunities for career development and public service on key visitor transportation issues. Fellows work closely under the coaching and mentoring of staff of Federal Land Management Agencies (FLMAs), such as the National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, to facilitate transportation planning or implementation projects for transportation solutions that preserve valuable resources and enhance the visitor experience. Through service at a unit or region/field office, fellows are invited to incite innovative change in our transportation systems and environmental lands management through significant contributions that advance cost-effective sustainability.

Full description and instructions for applying are available here.

Graduate Assistant - UIC Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice

GA to support Associate Head (25%)/DGS (25%): This position will provide general administrative support to the AH/DGS, including helping to develop policies and procedures manuals and coordinating programming. Tasks include but are not limited to: Curate and distribute bi-weekly department newsletters. Monitor printer usage. Help coordinate furniture surplus moving and disposal. Help manage graduate/alumni listserv. Collect and document office keys for Graduate students. Build out instructions for incoming GA. Coordinate, attend, and take notes for relevant department committees. Administrative tasks in the office as needed. Provide administrative support for Graduate Coordinator. Creating doodle polls, making schedules, creating flyers (including recruitment flyers), coordinating on various projects and events, replying to admission questions from prospective students, drafting templates for the various projects, and helping create various spreadsheets as needed. Provide additional office support while in the office/ as needed. 

Any interested graduate students can send a resume to the CLJ Department Business Manager, Danielle Smith (dsmith34@uic.edu).

Program Management Internship (Fund for Equitable Business Growth Team) - The Chicago Community Trust

• Job Tracking ID: 512298-861404
• Job Location: Chicago, IL
• Job Level: Student/Internship
• Level of Education: Any
• Job Type: Internship

• Date Updated: 08/03/2023
• Years of Experience: Any
• Starting Date: ASAP
• Application Deadline: 08/29/2023

Internship Title: Program Management Internship (Fund for Equitable Business Growth Team)

Description: This is a yearlong hybrid internship in which the intern will be closely integrated within the Fund for Equitable Business Growth team under supervision of the Director to navigate the areas of program management, including but not limited to events planning, community research, grants reporting, and stakeholder partnership management.

Find out more and Apply Here

Data Analytics and Impact Measurement Internship (Learning and Impact Team) - The Chicago Community Trust

• Job Tracking ID: 512298-861659
• Job Location: Chicago, IL
• Job Level: Student/Internship
• Level of Education: Any
• Job Type: Internship

• Date Updated: 08/08/2023
• Years of Experience: Not Applicable
• Starting Date: ASAP
• Application Deadline: 08/29/2023

Internship Title: Data Analytics and Impact Measurement Internship (Learning and Impact Team)

Description: This is a yearlong hybrid internship in which the intern will be closely integrated within our Learning and Impact team under the supervision of the Senior Director and Data & Analytics Managers. The intern will work with the team to develop and implement approaches to understand and communicate the impact of the Trust’s activities as reported by stakeholders (e.g., staff, grant recipients, community partners) to a range of audiences.

Find out more and Apply Here

Community Impact Internship (Public Policy and Neighborhood Investment Track) - The Chicago Community Trust

Job Location: Chicago, IL
Job Level: Student/Internship
Level of Education: Any
Job Type: Internship

• • Date Updated: 08/07/2023
  • Years of Experience: Not Applicable
  • Starting Date: ASAP
  • Application Deadline: 08/29/2023

Internship Title: Community Impact Internship (Policy and Neighborhood Investment Track)

Description: This is a yearlong internship in which a student will be closely integrated within our two Community Impact strategies of Advocating for Policy Change and Catalyzing Neighborhood Investment.

Find out more and Apply Here

Research Assistant - Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project, UIC Center for Healthy Work

Background 

The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work (GLHW) project is nearly a decade-old community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership between North and South Lawndale communities and the University of Illinois in Chicago. GLHW Project is a research project in the University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Healthy Work, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Total Worker Health Center of Excellence (Grant: U19OH010154).  

If interested in the position, please email Sylvia Gonzalez sgonza43@uic.edu and provide your CV/resume by Tuesday, August 15th 2023.

Graduate Assistant Position: Academic Year 23-24 - Academic Professional Advisory Committee

Job Description: Provide administrative support to the Academic Professional Advisory Committee (APAC)

Overview: The mission of the committee is to provide for the orderly voicing of suggestions for the good the University, afford added recourse for the consideration of grievances, and furnish a channel for direct and concerted communication between the Academic Professional (AP) staff and the administrative officers of the University, its colleges, schools, institutes, divisions, and other administrative units on matters of interest or concern to the Academic Professional staff or any member of it.

The appointment period is August 16, 2023 to May 15, 2024. This 25% graduate assistantship is ten hours a week and qualifies for tuition and partial fee waiver as long as the conditions for the waiver are met and your program is eligible for waivers. The 2023-2024 monthly stipend is $1,302.22. Most of the duties can be fulfilled remotely. Attendance at face-to-face meetings or events, if applicable, may be required.

2023 Historic Preservation Scholar - American Planning Association

2023 HISTORIC PRESERVATION SCHOLAR

Are you seeking a unique opportunity to work with experienced professionals with the American Planning Association Urban Design and Preservation Division and National Trust for Historic Preservation to explore the intersection of planning, preservation, and change? Are you interested in investigating the relationship between housing, density, affordability, and historic preservation?

The APA Urban Design and Preservation Division seeks a student scholar to work with its newly formed Historic Preservation Committee for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Application deadline: August 18, 2023

Full description and application instructions are also available on APA's Website.

2023 D-PRAT Scholar - American Planning Association

2023 DESIGN & PRESERVATION RAPID ASSISTANCE TEAM (D-PRAT) STUDENT SCHOLAR

Are you looking for a unique opportunity to work hand in hand with urban design and preservation professions to the benefit of a town or small city? Are you interested in spending 2-3 days working directly within a community to help them achieve their revitalization goals? Are you ready to compile intensive design and policy recommendations into a professional report shared with the community, partners, and fellow APA members? If so, consider applying for the D-PRAT student scholar program.

The Urban Design and Preservation Division’s Design-Preservation Rapid Assistance Teams (D-PRAT) Program is a pro-bono program to support under-resourced communities and organizations in their efforts to collaboratively plan for the future as it relates to urban design and/or historic preservation.

The D-PRAT program will provide free planning assistance to local governments and community-based organizations that need planning support to address specific problems or challenges. The primary goal of the program is to make urban design and preservation planning resources available to organizations and communities that would otherwise not have access to these services or planning expertise.

Application deadline: August 11, 2023

Description and application instructions are also available on APA's Website.