Sociology Student Aide 25/26

Expected hours of work per week: 1015

Work Location & Hours: Brock Hall Room #103 during 8am and 5pm MF and 6pm8:45 M/T.

Qualifications for Position:

• Student workers must be enrolled on a fulltime basis at Covenant College. Preference is given to sociology & art majors though students from other majors may be considered.
• Student workers must have typing and computer skills the ability to assist in basic academic tasks (i.e. as a research aide in limited situations such as identifying literature summarizing articles etc. for department professors).
• Flexibility which allows participation in events such as service projects and on and offcampus events which occur outside of the normal school/work day (for example an evening career dessert event held on campus).
• Student workers must also be able to maintain confidentiality about various matters when so directed by their supervising professor.
• Artistic ability is an asset in this position as duties include designing and maintaining public departmental bulletin boards.

Expected Duties and Responsibilities:

Student workers in the sociology department will assist fulltime and adjunct professors in a variety of ways including:

• Copying filing and being present in the workstudy office
• Designing and maintaining departmental bulletin boards
• Planning and attending departmental events (i.e. annual social work career dessert; student service work days departmental social events etc.)
• Locating and checking out library materials for professors
• Ordering library books and other materials for the sociology department
• Tracking student attendance and notifying students with excessive absences
• Proctoring makeup tests in the sociology office
• Grading objective sections of tests and exams
• Assisting with hospitality functions when we have a guest (like a guest speaker) on campus
• Making sure that the academic needs of adjunct professors are met (copying scanning etc.)
• Advocating for the sociology major
• Providing a student perspective when sociology professors need one
• Keeping the sociology office clean and neat
• Ensuring that the office is functional (paper in printers alerting supervisors when toner is low getting mail for professors etc.)
• Assisting professors (especially adjunct professors) with campus technology (Canvas Google etc.)
• Helping to archive the department (filing Capstones taking pictures of seniors etc.)
• Assisting with disposal of confidential material such as old tests papers etc.
• Making coffee and organizing/maintaining coffee supplies (and snacks etc. that we provide for students)
• Helping with the organization of departmental trips (for example to the Southern Sociological Society conference)
• Organizing and being present for oncampus sociology events such as a departmental Social Work Career Dessert

Resume skills development (NACE Competencies required by employers) to be developed

• Career & SelfDevelopment including working with sociology faculty in keeping graduate program literature up to date and displaying it in ways that are accessible to students. Working with sociology faculty to plan conference trips identifying lodging and recruiting students for conference trips.
• Communication in the form of coordinating departmental emails and serving as communication liaisons between sociology faculty and students.
• Critical Thinking in the form of assisting in planning conference trips and sitting in on sociology department meetings that address logistical matters in the department.
• Global Literacy displayed by assisting sociology faculty with courses such as Cultural Anthropology Principles of Sociology Sociology of Disability and others that emphasize global diversity.
• Leadership through coordinating the sociology office in such a way that it serves as a hub for sociology majors and students from other departments. Helping to organize and execute departmental functions such as service work days student clothing drives etc.
• Professionalism by keeping the sociology office neat clean and organized and by serving alongside sociology faculty in representing the college and the sociology department to prospective students during sneak peak events put on by Admissions.
• Teamwork including representing the sociology department in coordination with sociology faculty and sociology adjunct professors.
• Technology including working with spreadsheets producing and printing color posters doing electronic library searches copying tests and class handouts.

Work Habits (with alignment of Core Values)The College asks its staff members the following fundamental work habits:

• Do good work. (Service Diligence Faithfulness)
• Take ownership of your job. (Selflessness Diligence Resourcefulness Enterprising Creative)
• Be punctual. (Service Diligence Integrity Faithfulness) Dress professionally and appropriately for your job. (Humility)
• Make suggestions when appropriate. (Resourcefulness Enterprising and Creative)
• Communicate openly and honestly. Seek to resolve differences in accordance with the scriptural patterns summarized in the Staff Manual policy on Fair Treatment as well as the Grievance and Appeals Procedure. (Integrity Faithfulness)
• Attend chapel services at least once per week on average. (Integrity Faithfulness)

Competencies Must be a Covenant College student enrolled fulltime.

Work Environment This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers and phones.

Physical Demands Sitting: Remaining in the seated position

Lifting: Raising or lowering an object from one level to another (includes upward pulling) 2550 lbs.

Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to clients or to the public and to convey detailed spoken instructions to other workers accurately loudly or quickly