Servant Leadership Program: On-Campus Employment
Interested in working on campus? Campus offices and departments are now hiring! Check out Handshake to view current openings and to apply. Over 300 students work on campus each year in roles ranging from food service to research and lab assistants to tutors and student ambassadors and more. Job openings are posted year round, and hiring timelines vary per department/office.
Student Employment Handbook (requires login)
Info For Supervisor
How to Apply
- Complete your FAFSA each year
- Create a résumé and upload it to Handshake
- Search on-campus job postings and submit your résumé* to apply.
*some job postings may request additional items such as a cover letter, unofficial transcript, and/or writing samples.
Hiring Process
Each campus office/department will have different timelines for making hiring decisions. Some supervisors will conduct very formal interviews, while others may opt for more informal conversations. Regardless, always treat any interaction with a potential employer as an interview. The office/department will notify you if you've been selected for hire.
Timecards and Pay Periods
Students record their work hours on selfservice.uu.edu and are paid on a biweekly basis via Direct Deposit.
Student Time Entry Instructions
Employment Onboarding
If you've been selected for hire, you'll receive an email from the Vocatio Center with instructions to complete some employment forms online as well as I-9 verification. I-9 verification is a short, in-person meeting where you are required to provide authentic document(s) for employment verification.
Learn more about I-9 verification
List of acceptable document(s)
For international students with an F-1 visa, once you have been offered a job, your next step is to obtain a Social Security Number, and this must be done prior to starting work. Check out the International Student Checklist, and contact Pam Whitnell, the International Student Officer, for more details.
Once you have completed all of the on-boarding steps, you will receive an email confirmation clearing you to begin work.
Current Positions available in Handshake
- 3D Printing Camp Counselor II - UUWS
Job SummaryStudents will help with engineering outreach activities. Tasks and ResponsibilitiesStudents help develop and lead activities, mentor K-12 student teams, guide students through 3D design activities, help students set-up prints, encourage students to pursue engineering, Required QualificationsStudents must pass a background check and be interested in working with 4th-12th grade studentsStudents must at least have an introductory familiarity with the engineering department's 3D printing equipmentStudents must be exposed to 3D Printing and CAD Modeling in EGR 101 and EGR 105 or comparable experience - or -Comparable Experience TrainingThere will be a brief orientation by Betsy and Georg Pingen. No specific training is required.
- Peer Tutor - Center for Academic Success - FWS
Center for Academic Success (CAS)Academic Student LeadershipTutorThe CAS provides assistance to advance student learning and the academic process. Our goal is to help students become successful learners. Students learn how to learn while learning what to learn.We seek excellence as well as diversity within the CAS. We want outgoing, positive individuals that will model our Union core values: Excellence-Driven, Christ-Centered, People-Focused, and Future-Directed. CAS understands that a tutor is, above all, a student. However, a tutor should be the type of student who can handle CAS responsibilities and academic requirements without neglecting either. Working as an on-call peer tutor can provide some of the best workplace training possible; they must be dependable, motivated, caring and responsible (all valuable qualities to employers). Qualifications -- Tutors must:•Have a minimum of a B in the courses you wish to tutor•Have a minimum overall GPA of 3.0•Be recommended by the chair or...
- Peer Tutor - Center for Academic Success - UUWS
Center for Academic Success (CAS)Academic Student LeadershipTutorThe CAS provides assistance to advance student learning and the academic process. Our goal is to help students become successful learners. Students learn how to learn while learning what to learn.We seek excellence as well as diversity within the CAS. We want outgoing, positive individuals that will model our Union core values: Excellence-Driven, Christ-Centered, People-Focused, and Future-Directed. CAS understands that a tutor is, above all, a student. However, a tutor should be the type of student who can handle CAS responsibilities and academic requirements without neglecting either. Working as an on-call peer tutor can provide some of the best workplace training possible; they must be dependable, motivated, caring and responsible (all valuable qualities to employers). Qualifications -- Tutors must:•Have a minimum of a B in the courses you wish to tutor•Have a minimum overall GPA of 3.0•Be recommended by the chair or...
- Athletics Scorekeeper/Press - FWS
This job will include working at home athletic events in the sports of soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball, and softball. The job occurs mostly late afternoons, nights, and weekends. It includes jobs such as the scoreboard, video production, public address announcing, and play-by-play on our video streaming.
- Athletics Scorekeeper/Press - UUWS
This job will include working at home athletic events in the sports of soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball, and softball. The job occurs mostly late afternoons, nights, and weekends. It includes jobs such as the scoreboard, video production, public address announcing, and play-by-play on our video streaming.
- Event Staff - Concessions - FWS
Looking for friendly concession workers to prepare and sell food and drinks at home soccer, volleyball, basketball, softball, and baseball games. Working the cash register and Square iPad technology is also a part of the concession experience. Cleanliness, organization, and people skills are necessary. See all home games on UU Athletics Master Schedule (https://uuathletics.com/calendar). We are not asking employees to work every home game but a few games each month based on student-worker availability.
- Circle of Support Leader - EDGE Program - FWS
This position is responsible for providing support for students with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD). This support will vary based on the needs of each individual EDGE student and will coincide with the program focuses of Employment Training, Daily Living Skills, Godly Focus, and Educational Enrichment. This position is responsible as a primary peer mentor/peer leader within the students’ circle of support and liaison between other mentors and EDGE staff.
- Student Technician - Chemistry Department - FWS
Students will work with a professor in a lab class and/or with the chemical stockroom manager in the chemical stockroom. The student must have successfully completed CHE-111 and preferably also CHE-112 and must be available one or more days either 8-10 a.m. or 1:40-4:30 (TTh) or 2:00-4:50 p.m. (MWF).
