Student: Strommen Center Career Peer Advisor & Communications Specialist Academic Year 2025-26
Student: Strommen Center Career Peer Advisor & Communications Specialist Academic Year 2025-26
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Job Description
As an integral part of the Strommen team Career Peer Advisors will connect with the student body of Augsburg. Peer Advisors (PAs) mentor students in making effective major and career choices through career education and career-related activities.
Peer advisors have the opportunity to expand skills in communicating presenting problem solving teamwork and leadership. Additionally PAs staff drop-in hours to assist Augsburg students on resume and cover letter reviews internship and job searching strategies and other career related topics. PAs take part in training and regular meetings to develop their career development skills.
This role has a specific focus on communications and social media particularly written and oral communication to support the Strommen Center in assisting with the creation of materials such as flyers brochures surveys and social media posts.
We are hoping to fill the following available times in our peer advisor schedule:
- Mondays: 1pm to 4pm
- Tuesday: 1pm to 4pm
- Friday: 9am to 11am
Students who have this availability will have higher priority in the review process but we are open to adjusting our schedule if necessary.
Work-study eligible students welcome.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Welcome visitors to the Strommen Center
- Assisting students with Navigate and Handshake our online career portal
- Assisting students with resume and cover letter writing beginning steps of job and internship searches and connecting to career planning resources
- Connect students with opportunities to build relationships with alumni and others through informational interviews and job shadowing.
- Assist with outreach and education including
- Promoting career services through tabling presentations job fairs etc.
- Creating content for social media and the Strommen website as well as designing marketing materials in Canva
- Provide insights and feedback around marketing ideas for Strommen events and general communication with students
- Attend regular supervisor check-ins and staff meetings as able.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Able to effectively communicate verbally and in writing with others one-on-one and in groups.
- Develop teamwork skills by collaborating with peers Strommen staff and other members of the Augsburg Community.
- Become familiar with and utilize career skills such as coaching project planning and goal setting.
- Strengthen planning and completing communications projects and social media strategies
Qualifications :
- Students must be currently enrolled at Augsburg and must be work-study eligible
- Current Augsburg student second-year or above with enthusiasm for helping peers
- Interest in developing expertise to help others explore careers and use the resources of the Strommen Center
- Written & verbal communication skills including the ability to listen advise teach and explain in one-on-one advising conversations tabling events and presentations
- Manage multiple priorities of student walk-in traffic outreach/education and special projects
- Attention to detail and follow-through
- Resourcefulness and skills in creative problem-solving
- Knowledge of Canva Instagram TikTok and/or LinkedIn preferred
Additional Information :
All student applicants must attach the following for consideration:
- Resume
- Cover Letter (optional)
Augsburg University is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees regardless of their race creed color religion gender age national origin disability military service protected veteran status genetic information sexual orientation gender identity transgender status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete our application process please contact the Human Resources department by phone at 612.330.1058 or email at Human Resources is located at 20 Memorial Hall.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Part-time
Employment Type
Part-time
