Jobs UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER

The Office of Precollege Outreach and Engagement, partners with communities across Colorado and beyond to provide first-generation students and their families with comprehensive college preparation and social development programming.

Student Assistant

• Student assistants are responsible for, but not limited to:
• Developing and managing relationships with student participants, being visible and available to the PCDP family
• Communicating with and supporting all members of the community
• Serving as a liaison and advocating for student participant needs, supporting students as they adjust to a new living situation, addressing individual and group concerns among student participants
• Resolving problems that may arise within the community, responding to participant incidents as needed
• Listening, advising, and supporting participants with difficult situations while recognizing personal and positional limitations
• Serving as an initial contact, referral agent, and following up with students in crisis
• Maintaining an appropriate level of confidentiality
• Holding and enforcing student participants and team members accountable for following rules and policies on behalf of PCDP, CU Boulder, and Conferences Services/Residence Hall.
• Confronting and reporting policy violations and initiate disciplinary process when appropriate
• Reporting and responding to bias incidents
• Mediating conversations to resolve conflict
• Following up with students as needed
• Completing necessary paperwork and reports as needed, responding to all communication in a timely manner
• Providing office and administrative staff support as needed
• Participating in new experiences, challenging personal values and attitudes, assisting in the learning and growth of others through challenge and support, participating in group meetings, and contributing positively to staff as a whole.

Peer Advisor

• A Peer Advisor is a live-in student leader who works within the PCDP Summer Academic Residential program. Peer Advisors also serve in the roles of teacher’s aides. You must live in the residential hall with the students.

Office Assistant

• Office assistants help the PCDP office in reaching our program outcomes. As an OA, you will wear several hats and do many things such as basic office duties (answering phones, making copies, checking the PCDP email, ordering and delivering supplies, running office errands), taking photos, composing the PCDP Summer Program yearbook, ensuring all student CU Boulder application materials are submitted to the Admissions office, and ensuring students check-in for, breakfast, lunch, and dinner meal. OAs also assist in the monitoring of student behavior as needed. This is not a live-in position.

Night Residential Advisor

• A Night Residential Advisor is a live-in student leader who works within the PCDP Summer Academic Residential program to ensure students are following protocol and procedures during the night. NRAs are expected to respond to emergency and critical incidents involving residents related to health, safety, and security issues, provide overnight on-duty coverage in the residence hall including floor rounds (6-8 rounds during the night) and being available and visible in the residence hall to residents, encouraging communication and community among residents and fellow staff members, and communicate regularly with supervisor and program administrators.

Staff Training week will be May 19-23. The 2025 PCDP Summer Residential Academic Program for rising 12th graders will run June 2nd - June 27th. The 2025 Summer Program for 8th graders will go from June 30th - July 3rd. You must be available to work both programs and training week. All summer staff positions are expected to work 40 hours a week and attend daily staff meetings.

Office assistants have shifts between the hours of 7:30 am - 6 pm, PA’s work between 8 am - 11 pm, and night staff work a shift from 10 pm - 7 am.

You must pass a university background check if hired.

Questions can be directed to amy.molina@colorado.edu or victor.hernandez@colorado.edu.

The hire rate will range from $18.00 - $23.00 per hour.

• Completed at least one year of college or one year of direct experience working with youth.

• Ability to be a phenomenal teammate.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Leadership skills.

• Previous experience working for PCDP.
• Past program participant.
• Experience working with middle school and high school aged students and first generation students.
• Experience facilitating activities.
• Time management skills.