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Center For Educational Opportunity (CeO) Peer Navigator

Apply now(opens in a new window) Job No: 508678
Division/Organization: Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement
Department: Center for Educational Opportunity
Job Type: UW Student Jobs
Remote Eligbility: Not Remote
Location: INGRAHAM HALL, MARK H
Salary/Wage Range or Lump Sum: $15.00/hour
Job Categories: Interpersonal Communication, Leadership, Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Teamwork/Collaboration, Education and Training, Federal Work-Study Preferred, Higher Education-Student Affairs

Department Overview:

 The Center For Educational Opportunity (CeO) houses UW-Madison's federally funded SSS and SSS-STEM TRiO programs. CeO focuses on ensuring equal access and opportunity, supporting social-economic mobility, improving financial literacy, and fostering a supportive institutional climate for eligible students through two federally funded grant programs and the state-funded Academic Success and Achievement Program (ASAP).

Anticipated Start Date:

 May 31, 2025

Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):

 May 31, 2026

Remote Work Eligibility Detail:

Not Remote

 

Anticipated Hours Per Week:

 Minimum: 2 Maximum: 3

Schedule:

 All Peer Navigators will be required to attend a week long in-person paid training to be held on August 18-22, 2025 and work the week of August 24-29, 2025, assisting with our first-year scholar orientation.

During the semester your schedule will be determined by your availability to meet as group with your Peer Led Community (PLC).

Peer Navigators must be present for Winter Retreat that will be held on January 19, 2026.

Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:

 Minimum: $15.00 Maximum: $15.00

Number of Positions:

 6-15

Qualifications:

 - Must be a CeO Student
- Must be in academic good standing

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

- Ability to maintain honest, clear, and consistent communication with supervisors and peers in your group
- Value being a positive role model for new incoming first-year students
- Ability to address conflict or inappropriate behavior with a positive attitude and respect
- Ability to work as a team with other Peer Navigators and take initiative with your group of incoming CeO first-year scholars Comfort and willingness to engage in public speaking for groups of various sizes
- Empathy for and willingness to foster connection between all communities of people

Position Summary/Job Duties:

Peer Navigators are an integral part of CeO's first-year scholar experience and the driving force for our peer mentoring program. Our first-year cohort of scholars will be divided into small groups, currently referred to as Peer Led Communities. Peer navigators will be responsible for planning and facilitating small group activities for their Peer Led Community.

The goal of CeO's Peer Led Community is to offer a space for our scholars to build community, while gaining access to knowledge and resources from students that not long ago had also just started their first year at UW-Madison.

As a Peer Navigator you will serve as a point of contact for CeO first-year scholars once they are admitted to our program. In your Peer Led Community, you will provide a welcoming and supportive environment for students while offering advice and demonstrating healthy and productive practices for successful students in addition to providing space and opportunities to connect socially and build community.

Physical Demands:

Varying; however, accommodation and support is available

Institutional Statements:

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu

Accommodation Statement:

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
 
 

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