Updated: about 4 hours ago
Location: Warrensburg, MISSOURI
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Position Information
Position Information
| Requisition Number | 2024-51GA |
|---|---|
| Position Title | Graduate Assistant - Research |
| Working Title | Graduate Assistant - Criminal Justice - Fall 2024 |
| Department | 240110 - Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology |
| Pay Rate | 0.50 : $2,250.00 (Spring/Fall) |
| FTE | .5 |
| Position Number | G98022 |
| Starting Date: | 08/12/2024 |
| End Date: | 12/13/2024 |
| Special Instructions to Applicants: | Only complete applications will be considered for graduate assistant positions. Once an application has been submitted, you are not permitted to make changes or upload additional documents to the application. You must upload all transcripts and official reference letters at the time of submission. Applications will be denied if reference letters and transcripts are not included. |
| Working hours: | Monday through Friday 10 hours per week on a set but flexible schedule |
| Posting Date: | 04/08/2024 |
| Open Until Filled | No |
| Position Purpose | Graduate Assistants’ duties will include, but are not limited to the following: 1. Contribute to literature reviews for research projects and grant development. 2. Support data collection and analysis for on-going research projects. 3. Provide classroom related assistance for faculty (e.g., present lectures, monitor examinations, operate film projection and videos, grade objective examinations). 4. Development of on-line courses in collaboration with faculty. 5. Planning and hosting sponsored conferences in collaboration with faculty. 6. Overseeing short and long term department projects. |
| Education & Formal Training | Bachelor's degree (Specify field(s) of study below) |
| Other Education & Formal Training | |
| Computer Skills | Word-Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation |
| Experience | |
| Other Experience | Experience with social media is highly desired. |
| Special Skills, Abilities, and Knowledge: | Attention to detail, Communication skills, including oral, written, and/or nonverbal, Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and meet deadlines, Maintain confidentiality |
| Other Special Skills, Abilities, and Knowledge | Criminal Justice graduate students preferred; other disciplines will be considered. Preferred: academic writing and professional interpersonal communication skills. |
| Special Working Conditions: | Professional appearance |
| Other Special Working Conditions | Scholarship: Students filling a Graduate Assistantship (GA) position are eligible to receive a graduate tuition waiver, a graduate non-resident tuition waiver (if applicable), and a graduate mandatory fees waiver. The scholarships are in the form of a waiver and the funds are not deposited into the student’s personal account. Instead, the student’s bill is reduced by the amount of the scholarship awarded. If the maximum amount of the scholarship is not used, the remainder is not paid to the student in any form and unused scholarship money cannot be carried over to another semester. The scholarship is applied to graduate level courses only; courses taken for undergraduate credit are not eligible to be covered by the GA scholarship. The non-resident fee scholarship only applies to classes taken on the UCM Warrensburg campus. The maximum scholarship amounts are based on the size of assistantship held. For a half-time (10 hours per week) assistantship, the scholarship covers tuition costs up to $2,430.00 and mandatory fees up to $228.25 of graduate coursework per semester. |
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