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On-Campus Student Employment Opportunities

Looking for On-Campus Employment?

This resource is here to assist you in finding an on-campus job that is the right fit for you. Below you will find the list of current on-campus position openings for students at Clarke University.

If interested in a position, please contact the supervisor listed on the post and complete any additional applications they may require.

2024-2025 Student Employment Positions

 

Admissions

Tour Guides – Multiple Positions

Time Frame:  Fall/Spring, option for summer

Hours per week: Varying depending on how many tours you take per week.

Purpose of Job: To provide campus tours of Clarke University primarily to prospective students and their families.

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Give on-campus and virtual tours  to prospective students and their families, faculty and staff members interviewing on campus, and to large groups visiting campus from high schools.
  • Responsible for knowledge of basic facts of the university, as well as tips, tricks and stories learned in training.
  • Create an unforgettable experience for those visiting Clarke while on tour.

Job Qualifications:

  • Have a positive attitude, great energy, be dependable and possess top notch customer service skills.
    Be in at least your second year of college at Clarke University.
  • Be available and flexible for a minimum of 5 tours per semester. Each tour is approximately an hour long. Tours are given Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Fri 9:00am-4:00pm and on occasional Saturdays from 9:00am-Noon.
  • Strong communications skills required.
  • Ability to be a great storyteller preferred.
  • Tour Guides will receive training on campus history, building specifics and will need to complete shadow tours, buddy tours and pass a certification tour before being able to give tours on their own.

Wage:  $10/hr.

Supervisor:  Nicole Schaefer, Campus Experience Coordinator

Please apply by completing the application.

 

 

Admissions

Admissions Influencer

Time Frame: Fall/Spring

Hours Per Week – 10

Number of Positions – 2

Purpose of Job:

Bring the latest social media trends and show your skills as a content creator by making fun videos to connect with future students! As an influencer, you will appear in and brainstorm postings for Instagram reels, TikToks, and reach out to prospective students via social media messaging, texts, and calls.

Student’s Duties and Responsibilities:

Meet once each week with the First Year and Transfer Admissions Counselors to plan upcoming content, review what is ready to be posted the following week, and review engagement from the previous week. Receive lists of students to contact via messaging & calls. Monitor Instagram and TikTok inboxes and reply to students.

Job Qualifications:

Be passionate about CU, have a positive attitude, and be dependable Strong social media and communications skills. CU Influencers will receive training on managing professional social media accounts and student outreach

Wage: $9.00/hour

Supervisor: Jordan Burkholder, 563-588-6469, jordan.burkholder@clarke.edu

ADMISSIONS STUDENT INTERN – 3 POSITIONS AVAILABLE

Time Frame: Fall/Spring, Option for summer 2025
Hours: 8-10 hours per week

Purpose of Job:

To assist the Admissions Office in completing essential day-to-day operations specifically in efforts to recruit prospective students to Clarke University.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Assist in scheduling and hosting both on campus and virtual visits.
  • Monitor visit email inbox
  • Assist in sending out admission letters to students.
  • Send communications to prospective students and families.
  • Keep the admissions office stocked with all materials needed.
  • Give tours to prospective students and their families, faculty and staff members interviewing on campus, and to large groups visiting campus from high schools.
  • Provide current student representation at Admissions events.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications:

  • Have a positive attitude, great energy, be dependable and possess top notch customer service skills.
  • Have strong organizational skills and be able to multitask.
  • Be able to work at least 3 Admissions Events per academic year.
  • Be in at least your second semester at Clarke.

Wage: $9.00/hour

Supervisor: Nicole Schaefer, Campus Experience Manager – nicole.schaefer@clarke.edu

Please apply by completing the application: https://forms.office.com/r/dbYzKY2gSv

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Athletics

Cuttie Mascot Performer, 2 positions

Time Frame:  Fall/Spring

Hours per Week:  4-5

Purpose of Job: Perform as Cuttie the athletic mascot during athletic games and events.

Duties & Responsibilities: Wear mascot costume and entertain crowd and kids.

Job Qualifications: Must enjoy and interact with the crowd.

Wage: $20/hr.

Supervisor:  Brett Tudela, brett.tudela@clarke.edu, (563) 588-6360

Statistics Assistant

Purpose of Job: Students will help produce the statistics of select home athletics events for the Pride.

Duties and Responsibilities: Duties include but are not limited to directly inputting stats into computer program, spotting stats to assist inputting, marking athlete participation, and running statistic print outs to teams, media, and/or commentators. Sports where statistics are kept at CU include Football, Soccer, Volleyball, lacrosse, baseball, and softball.

Job Qualifications: General knowledge of the rules and stats of sports planning to work

Time Frame: Fall/Winter/Spring

Hours Per Week: Varies

Wage: $7.25/hr

Supervisor:  Brett Tudela, brett.tudela@clarke.edu, (563) 588-6360

 

Creative Content Assistant

Purpose of Job: Students will help produce gameday creative content for Pride athletic teams.

Duties and Responsibilities Duties include but are not limited to in-game action photography, in-game social media videos (Instagram Stories, X Posts, Interviews, etc.), in-game social media graphics (Photoshop), and more. Students will be primarily asked to work home games for select sports but can also assist in road game coverage on an as-needed basis.

Job Qualifications: General knowledge of smart phone cameras, DSLR cameras, and social media platforms

Time Frame: Fall/Winter/Spring

Hours Per Week: Varies

Wage: $7.25/hr

Supervisor:  Brett Tudela, brett.tudela@clarke.edu, (563) 588-6360

 

Event Management, Multiple Positions

Time Frame:  Fall/Spring

Hours Per Week:  6-10

Purpose of Job: Help with various positions at athletic contests.

Duties & Responsibilities: Public announcer for games, run clocks, scoreboards, keep stats, working a camera, misc.

Job Qualifications: Ability to learn rules about the sport.

Wage: $7.25/hr.

Supervisor:  Casey Tauber, casey.tauber@clarke.edu, (563) 588-6397

Please email Casey Tauber for an interview appointment.

 

Dining Services

Cafeteria Assistant, 12 positions

Time Frame: Fall/Spring

Hours Per Week: 10 hours

Purpose of Job: To assist the Dining Services Department in serving our guests’ needs in the Dining Hall.

Duties & Responsibilities: Serving on hot line, ware washing, and food preparation.

Job Qualifications: Must be reliable and hard-working.

Wage: $10.00 to start/hr.  

Supervisor: Steve Neese, steve.neese@clarke.edu, (563) 588-6328

Please email Steve Neese for an interview appointment.

Education / Community Service Learning

School Tutoring / Teacher Assistant, multiple positions

Time Frame:  Fall/Spring

Hours per week:  5-15/hrs. per week

Purpose of Job: To provide teacher and student support in local schools.

Duties & Responsibilities: Work with students in elementary, middle school, or high school. Duties include, but not limited to: tutoring and general classroom teacher assistance.
Students must be professional and reliable.  Students will need to have transportation to area schools or walk to schools close to Clarke.

Job Qualifications: Preference of education students with experience working with children.

Wage:  $12/hr.

Supervisor:  Cathy Stierman cathy.stierman@clarke.edu

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Society, Culture and Discourse

Student Assistant, 1 position

Time Frame:  Fall/Spring

Hours per week:  2-3

Purpose of Job: To assist in supporting the work of the department and its faculty.

Duties & Responsibilities: This work study position provides support to the department faculty members. Duties include word processing; making photocopies and scanning documents to make pdfs; researching information, picking up and delivering mail; organizing department materials; administrative support of events; updating and attending to social media for the department; and posting and arranging information on bulletin boards. Some understanding of Spanish is helpful for support of the Spanish portion of the department.

Job Qualifications:

  •  Must be organized, trustworthy, responsible, and responsive.
  • Must have good communication skills.
  • Must have the ability to use office equipment and computer using standard programs such as Word. Knowledge of such programs as Excel, Publisher, etc., would be helpful.
  • Familiar with social media and able to use it to help support the department.
  • Spanish-speaking preferred

Wage:  $7.25/hr.

Supervisor:  Evelyn Nadeau, evelyn.nadeau@clarke.edu, (563) 588-6557

Theatre Department

TDH Student Worker – 1 Position

Time Frame:  Spring

  • Hours per week:5-8 hours per week – adjustable hours if needed.

Purpose of Job: General cleaning and organizing

Duties & Responsibilities: 

  • Organization and cleaning in the theatre (TDH)
  • Organizing small props, furniture, and tool storage areas
  • Cleaning out and disposing of broken, damaged, unwanted items

Job Qualifications: 

  • Organizational abilities
  • Dependable
  • Trustworthy
  • Hardworking

Wage:  $9/hr.

Supervisor:  Ellen Gabrielleschi, Professor of Compass, ellen.gabrielleschi@clarke.edu

Notes: Interviews will begin immediately

Please email Ellen Gabrielleschi for an interview appointment.

 

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