Category: Opportunity

Transportation Services has an excellent opportunity for student employment in the Commute Options & Planning program. The Student Assistant provides personal commute planning services to students, staff, and faculty. Commute Options & Planning promotes sustainable transportation options such as walking, bicycling, transit, and ridesharing to campus, through products such as U-PASS and promotional events and programs. Our Student Assistants provide valuable commuter assistance, staff outreach activities like Earth Day on Red Square, and support campus-wide events such as the annual bicycling campaign Ride in the Rain. The position has flexible scheduling around incumbent’s course schedule and offers a competitive salary.

Applicants should visit Husky Jobs, job ID 117342, to review the full job description and submit an application. Applicants must meet student employment eligibility requirements.

The position is open until filled; however, interested candidates should submit by Friday, August 25th, to ensure consideration.

VIEW POSITION DESCRIPTION HERE.

Application Deadline: Friday, Sept. 1, 2017

The Undergraduate Research Program (URP) is seeking enthusiastic and experienced undergraduate researchers from all disciplines to be Undergraduate Research Leaders (URLs) for the 2017-18 academic year. Students conducting research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences are particularly encouraged to apply.

URLs serve a central role in connecting undergraduates to support services of the URP. The goal of the URL program is to increase awareness and participation of undergraduates doing research in a range of disciplines. As a URL, you can motivate future undergraduate researchers! Anticipated URL time commitment is approximately 10 hours/month and dependent on quarterly events and student availability.

More information and application available here.

Questions? Contact the URP Staff at urp@uw.edu or (206) 543-4282

Puget Sound Stewardship & Mitigation Fund

Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment is pleased to announce the opportunity to apply to the Fall 2017 Puget Sound Stewardship & Mitigation Fund. In 2017, the Fund will accept proposals from groups of any size.

The Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund was created by a record legal settlement between the Puget Soundkeeper Alliance (Soundkeeper) and Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway, and has since been supplemented by several other pollution mitigation payments including Trident Seafoods, SSA Terminals, Rainier Petroleum Corporation and Louis Dreyfus Company Washington LLC. More recently we received another record settlement payment from BNSF, which involved Soundkeeper numerous other waterkeepers and the Sierra Club.
The Fund’s goal is to mitigate past pollution runoff by supporting community-based efforts to protect or improve the water quality of Puget Sound. Since inception in 2012, close to $3 million in grants have been awarded.

The deadline for applications is September 15, 2017 at 5PM.

Eligibility and Priorities

How To Apply

About Rose Foundation

For Further Information

Click here to begin or return to your online application.

Eligibility and Priorities

In this grant opportunities, grants awarded through the Puget Sound Stewardship & Mitigation Fund are $25,000 or less.

To be eligible for a Puget Sound Stewardship & Mitigation Fund Grant, the applicant and project must meet the following criteria:

Projects Supported: The project must be designed to improve (or prevent degradation) of the water quality of Puget Sound. Preference will be given to projects that directly benefit the Green-Duwamish River watershed, and the eastern shoreline of South and North Puget Sound and the Salish Sea from Olympia to the Canadian Border. Strong preference will be given to proposals that take an environmental justice approach to water quality.

Applicant requirements: The applicant must demonstrate the capacity to complete the proposed project, including experience in successfully conducting similar or otherwise related work in the past.

Non-profit Status: The applicant must be a 501(c)3 organization, fiscally-sponsored by a 501(c)3, or a governmental or tribal entity. If you have a compelling project, the Rose Foundation may be willing to act as your fiscal sponsor for this grant proposal.

Environmental Justice: While this is not specifically an environmental justice fund, supporting environmental and social justice is a core organizational value that guides all of the Rose Foundation’s programs. Applications from environmental justice organizations are strongly encouraged.

Frequency of Applying: Organizations whose proposals are rejected may re-apply after one year. Organizations that are funded may re-apply after one year if their evaluation form has been submitted and accepted.

Duration of Support: Most grants are for a one year period; however, you do not have to ask for a one year grant. It is permitted to request a shorter or longer grant period if that is what you need. However, even if you are asking for multi-year support, the maximum request cannot exceed $25,000. After three consecutive years of funding, groups must wait two years before reapplying.

Click here to check the full eligibility requirements and to see examples of eligible projects.

How to Apply

In the 2017 grants opportunities, the Fund is open to any sized organizations. Grants will be awarded up to a maximum of $25,000 range. If your organization has an annual budget of $100,000 or less, we encourage to apply for a grant of $10,000 or less.

Please check all eligibility requirements before starting the online application. To apply, groups must complete the application process using our online grant application portal at http://www.rosefdn.org/onlineapplication.

If you are new to our online grants software, you must first register with your organization’s name, tax ID number, website address, telephone numbers, email address, mailing address, contact person’s name, and position. Your email address will be your logon ID and you will set up a password.

The deadline for applications is: September 15, 2017 at 5:00 PM PST

About Rose Foundation

Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment is a grantmaking public charity that specializes in handling restitution payments and class-action settlement awards, and using these funds to support grassroots-based conservation, social justice and consumer protection projects in close conformance with the nexus of the specific settlement. Over the past 25 years, Rose has received around 400 settlements, helping to enable more than $40 million in community grants in California, Washington and other states.

To ensure that the Puget Sound Stewardship and Mitigation Fund is grounded in the values and knowledge of the local community, the fund is guided by a local Funding Board of individuals with deep knowledge of Puget Sound issues.

For Further Information

Kevin Hendrick, Grants Manager
khendrick@rosefdn.org

Tim Little, Executive Director
tlittle@rosefdn.org or 510-658-0702 x301

Laura Fernandez, Program Officer
lfernandez@rosefdn.org or 510-658-0702 x304

Please visit Rose Foundation’s website: http://rosefdn.org/puget-sound-stewardship-mitigation-fund

To receive notification of future grant opportunities:
If you would like to receive notifications of any grants that may become available through various Rose Foundation grantmaking funds, please sign up at our RFP subscription page.

URBAN INDIANS
AIS 275, 5 credits, SLN 10216 INTR INDGENOUS STDY I&S

This course will cover issues of concern to today’s urban American Indian/Alaska Natives. Topics will include ancient cities in the Americas, reasons Natives relocated to modern day cities and examine the cultural, social, economic and political outcomes of such a migration. Students will take an in-depth look into the contemporary Indian identity, issues encountered by Indians in the urban setting and the resulting outcomes as demonstrated in major metropolitan cities: Indian organizations; federal programs; pan-Indian identities; healthcare; social/Indian child welfare, urbanization of traditional homelands, and cultural survival/resilience.

INDIGENOUS GOVERNANCE
SLN 23665 AMER IND & THE LAW, I&S, DIV 5 CR

How do indigenous peoples organize themselves to achieve development? Is it to do with money? Is it to do with culture? Is it to do with identity? Is it to do with the environment? Actually, what is development for indigenous peoples?
This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn the theory and practice around the distinctive cultural, social, economic, political and legal environments of Indigenous governance by indigenous groups within the four settler-countries of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the USA with other examples drawn from across the Pacific Islands (reference will also be made at points in the course to indigenous groups from other parts of the world).
As part of the course we’ll be interacting with leaders from indigenous groups from each of these countries – providing students an opportunity to learn first-hand what the struggles for better governance look like in these different countries. As part of the assessment we’ll take these theoretical ideas and put them into practice by working with local indigenous groups on projects to help improve governance outcomes in their own communities.
Taught within the context of the changing global order, and built around case studies from indigenous groups within each of these four settler-countries, the course presents students with the chance to better understand how indigenous groups within these four countries work to promote ongoing positive development for their communities. In doing so, we will look at both how indigenous action is leading to a re-thinking of what the very term governance itself means in an indigenous and non-indigenous context as well as explore how these ideas play out in the context of the lived day-to-day lives of indigenous individuals, communities, and nations.

INTERRUPTING THE ONGOING PSYCHOLOGICAL COLONIZATION
OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
SLN 10222 RSCH INDGENOUS STDY I&S 5 credits

Historical practices mandated the cultural assimilation and colonization of North American Indigenous peoples, but according to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, the inevitable legacy of colonialism is likely to influence every aspect of the lives of the subjugated persons for eternity. This course will examine 1) the foundations of psychological colonization and 2) how understanding these foundations can provide a roadmap for ameliorating the ongoing disruptions to self and identity development, families, education, and the future development of tribal communities. Theoretical and empirical evidence will be drawn from the experiences of indigenous communities in the U.S. and Canada, and at times from other colonized groups from around the world. A central issues throughout the course is whether and how the techniques and technologies of contemporary psychology should be appropriately adapted and/or adopted for use in Indigenous cultural communities. This course is designed for upper-level students who have had at least one course in American Indian Studies.

The UW Information School’s Career Services team is looking to hire a student worker for the 2017-2018 academic year. Some duties for this position include:

Reception coverage at the front desk of iSchool Student Services (Mary Gates Hall 420)

Assist employers with posting jobs to the iSchool online job board

Create and design web/printed documents for career services events and activities

Work ~8-12 hours/week with a start date of 9-18-2017, pay is $15.35/hour

Full details and application can be found here: https://jobs.ischool.uw.edu/posting/75

Deadline to apply is August 15th, 2017. Please note, this position is only open to currently enrolled UW undergraduate students.

Senior Transportation Planner

The Seattle Department of Transportation’s (SDOT) Project Development division is seeking qualified candidates for the Senior Transportation Planner position. There may be an opportunity for multiple hires within Project Development from the candidate pool generated from this hiring process. These positions will serve as senior project manager for a series of projects on technically complex active transportation projects. Positions will also develop concepts, 10% design packages, monitor progress on a programmatic level for multiple projects, manage schedule and budget, identify impediments to progress, and initiate solutions with appropriate parties while understanding the bigger picture of implementation of transportation projects in the City.

Associate Transportation Planner

The Seattle Department of Transportation’s (SDOT) Project Development division is seeking qualified candidates for the Associate Transportation Planner position. This position will serve as project manager for specific projects, or a collection of activities for a series of projects on active transportation projects. Position will also develop concepts, 10% design packages, monitor progress on a programmatic level for multiple projects, manage schedule and budget, identify impediments to progress, and initiate solutions with appropriate parties while understanding the bigger picture of implementation of transportation projects in the City.

Civil Engineer, Associate (CE,Assoc)

The Project Development Division of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is currently seeking a Civil Engineer, Associate. This position will evaluate SDOT projects for holistic transportation needs consistent with City-wide and Departmental objectives, ROW allocation priorities, modal plans and public input to create comprehensive scopes, schedules, budgets and preliminary design for multi-modal capital projects. This position’s projects include freight corridors, transit corridors, arterial paving projects including a variety of multi-modal elements including safety enhancements, and bike and pedestrian improvements.

This position will serve as project engineer/coordinator or project manager/project developer leading both internal teams and/or consultant teams through the project development process of scoping and preliminary engineering design to include specified preliminary engineering deliverables at 10% including plans, estimates, budgets, traffic analysis, operations analysis, topographical survey, pavement designs, drainage designs, public outreach and involvement plans and procurement plans. This position will report to a Project Development Strategic Advisor.

Assistant Civil Engineering Specialist I

The Seattle Department of Transportation’s (SDOT) Project Development division’s Project Design and Delivery group is seeking qualified candidates for the Assistant Civil Engineering Specialist I position. This position will perform professional civil engineering drafting and engineering work in the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of crew delivered projects that include Neighborhood Greenways, Safe Routes to School, Transit Spot, Vision Zero, Pedestrian, and Bicycle Programs.

There is still time to apply for several fully funded year-long international experiences with deadlines looming in September! Rising seniors, new or current graduate and professional students, and alumni may be eligible to apply:

Luce Scholars Program
Apply by Sept. 6, 2017

This is a great opportunity for those with little or no prior experience in, or education about, Asian countries to add this valuable perspective to their future career interests! The Luce Scholars Program (http://www.hluce.org/lsprogram.aspx) is open to students and alumni under 30 as of July 1, 2018 in all fields of study (except Asian Studies – sorry!). It is unique among American-Asian exchanges in that it is intended for young leaders who have had limited experience of Asia and who might not otherwise have an opportunity in the normal course of their careers to come to know Asia. The program provides living stipends, language training and individualized professional placement in Asia for fifteen to eighteen young U.S. citizens each year. Learn more and apply for UW nomination at http://expd.uw.edu/expo/scholarships/luce.

Fulbright US Student Program
Apply by Sept. 6, 2017

Open to students and alumni in all fields (and no age limit!). The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed graduate-level study, independent research projects or English Teaching Assistant Programs in over 140 countries. Learn more about the program at https://us.fulbrightonline.org, and about our campus application and interview process at http://expd.uw.edu/expo/scholarships/fulbright.

Schwarzman Scholars Program
current UW undergrads should seek institutional endorsement by Aug. 15, national deadline Sept. 28, 2017

Launched in 2016, the Schwarzman Scholars Program aims to give the world’s best and brightest students the opportunity to develop their leadership skills through a one-year Master’s Degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Full funding is provided for students to pursue degrees in one of three disciplines: Public Policy, Economics and Business, and International Studies. Candidates must be at least 18 but not yet 29 years of age as of August 1, 2018. Learn more at http://schwarzmanscholars.org/program/. Information on UW endorsement for current undergrads is at http://expd.uw.edu/expo/scholarships/SchwarzSchol.

DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service Scholarships
Apply for UW priority consideration by October 17; final campus deadline November 1

Highly qualified final year undergraduate students or those who have received an undergraduate degree in any discipline may apply for the DAAD Study Scholarship for a full Master’s degree program at a German university or for study at a German university as part of a postgraduate or Master’s degree program completed in the home country. Research Grants for 1-6 month or 7-10 month projects in Germany are awarded to highly qualified candidates from rising seniors through those who have already completed a Ph.D. (and all stages in between), including those wishing to earn a doctoral degree in Germany. Many study programs and research opportunities funded by DAAD do not require proficiency in the German language, there are no age limits, and US citizenship is not required. Learn more at https://www.daad.org/en/study-research-in-germany/.

Connect with UW scholarship advisers at all three campuses for questions and/or application support for any of these programs (and more)!

UW Seattle Undergrads & Bachelor’s Alumni: contact Emily Smith (emilys42@uw.edu) & Robin Chang (robinc@uw.edu) in the Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships & Awards.

UW Seattle Graduate & Professional Students & Alumni: contact Michelle Drapek (mdrapek@uw.edu) in the Graduate School Office of Fellowships & Awards.

UW Bothell students and alumni at all levels: contact Natalia Dyba (nataliak@uw.edu), Director of Global Initiatives.

UW Tacoma students and alumni at all levels: contact Cindy Schaarschmidt (cs65@uw.edu), Director, Student Fellowships & Study Abroad

Below is information regarding an undergraduate opportunity through the Center for Growing Talent by PMA. The Center works to attract, develop and retain talent for the global produce industry. They are organizing a student conference in November for undergrads across multiple disciplines – and requested that we spread the word. The application can be found online here – https://fs12.formsite.com/pmameetingforms/form173/index.html?1493127838157.

It also includes information on who students should contact if they have further questions.

King County is actively recruiting for a highly motivated, creative team player with top notch analytical skills. Recent CEP grads would be a great fit. The Roads Division of the King County DOT has a great opportunity for a Project/Program manager to join our newly created Project Delivery Office.

APPLY HERE!