Category: Opportunity

United Way is Hiring. Join our effort in changing our community!
Read about the available positions by clicking on any of the links below. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

Learn more about United Ways AmeriCorps Teams!

Fuel Your Future
September 15th, 2017 through July 31st, 2018
Transform schools into nutrition hubs through education, expanding access to federal nutrition programs, and community events.
Focus Area: Food Security and Family Stability
Program: The Fuel Your Future program reduces childhood food insecurity in low-income schools while helping families build financial stability and meet their basic needs. FYF AmeriCorps members work with kids, parents and staff in partner schools to develop programs enabling all students to access essential healthcare and nutrition programming, healthy meals and quality nutrition education both in and out of school.

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Housing Ready and Crisis Resilient
September 15th, 2017 through July 31st, 2018
Get trained as a Free Tax Campaign specialist, student financial stability coach or regional access point housing specialist.
Focus Area: Ending Homelessness and Financial Stability
Program: Our 25 Ready & Resilient AmeriCorps members help low-income people improve their housing, education and financial stability outcomes. After extensive training, R&R Americorps work at tax sites, regional access points or community colleges to help clients get by (emergency financial assistance and income supports), get ahead (build savings), and stay ahead (improve credit and build assets).

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Provides a working knowledge of international management as well as theoretical and analytical tools needed to make sound human resource and general management decisions in an international setting. Includes 3 modules:

Economic, political, and cultural context of global business along with the employee relations, labor standards, and ethics in the global marketplace

Major human resource functions (e.g. staffing, performance, compensation, training and development, knowledge management) in multinational corporations

Topics relating to international management (e.g. communication, team, leadership, diversity, and expatriation)

ENGL 381 B -Writing, Rhetoric, and Genre in Legal Institutions
Whenever we take out a student loan, buy something online, or catch an MIP, we interact with the law and its agents. We mediate and are mediated by such interactions through a variety of written and spoken genres — police reports, contracts, depositions, and a whole host of other recognizable and not-so-recognizable textual artifacts. This class seeks to build upon this observation by using the genres of legal discourse to investigate advanced principles of rhetoric, writing, and argumentation. Without considering the law as the law, this course will prepare you to write, argue, and think about the role that we all play as subjects of what philosopher Ronald Dworkin called the “law’s empire.” Whether you intend to major in law, STEM, or underwater-basket weaving, this class has something for you — as a thinker, as a citizen, and as a human being.

ENGL 382 A – Digital Storytelling: The Hero’s Journey
According to scholars like Joseph Campbell, all storytelling traditions—regardless of geographical or cultural origin, historical context or political agendas—have a common genre, which he calls “the monomyth,” or “hero’s journey.” This epic structure consists of three phases with several milestones each, at the end of which the mortal who began the journey returns transformed into a mythic hero. Though these traditions are old, they certainly aren’t dead. In fact, we could argue that the hero’s journey is the structure we’re most familiar with, whether we realize it or not, via movies, TV, ads, songs, etc. etc. Thus, in this class, we’ll aim to track the hero’s journey in contemporary pop culture, and then use what we’ve gained to produce our own texts—ones which connect with audiences with particular effectiveness. Specifically, we’ll focus on multimodal texts, which engage multiple senses (vision, hearing, emotions, etc.) in order to achieve their goals. Any level of computer/digital expertise (or lack thereof) is totally fine, and there’s no need to have any pre-existing knowledge of the monomyth, Joseph Campbell, mythology, etc.

ENGL 382 B – Feminist Research Methods, Design Approaches, and Project Development
In this multimodal composition course, we will broaden our definition of writing to produce various types of texts that employ multiple modes of communication like sounds, words, images, body movement, etc. Our subject of inquiry in this course will be the intersection of feminism and multimodality. As such, we will create social justice oriented texts. We will also use our feminist lens in the qualitative and theoretical research methods that we employ to gather data for the texts we create, and a feminist approach when composing multimodal projects, meaning we will have increased attention to issues of ethics and accessibility in product design.

Become a FIUTS Facilitator and boost your resume while making friends from around the world!

FIUTS (the Foundation for International Understanding Through Students) is an organization that supports cross-cultural understanding and leadership for UW’s global community, including international and American students. FIUTS depends on the generosity and passion of our volunteers to help accomplish our goals. Volunteering is a great opportunity to learn intercultural leadership skills and make new friends. The time commitment is flexible; facilitators can choose when and how often they facilitate.

As a FIUTS facilitator, you will receive cross-cultural leadership training and gain valuable volunteer experience leading programs and events including International Welcome Weeks in September, when you can help welcome more than 2,400 new students from around the world to the UW and Seattle! Facilitators also have the opportunity to participate in year-round activities such as K-12 education outreach, events and activities, and more.

Volunteer opportunities are open to current UW students – U.S., international, undergrads, grads, scholars and IELP students. Facilitators need to complete a short application and attend one of our regularly scheduled New Facilitator Orientations. Upcoming New Facilitator Orientations are scheduled for July 21, August 9, August 15, and September 7. See the FIUTS calendar for times and locations.

For more information, visit our website at fiuts.org/facilitators, or contact us at 206.543.0735/ info@fiuts.org / HUB 206.

Student Assistant – Football Transportation Planner – Job ID #116666
The Football Transportation Planner will research and compare elements of the transportation management plans for Seattle’s major event facilities, review the basic requirements of each plan and other policies that affect operations, then present findings in a comparison chart.

Additionally, the Football Transportation Planner will administer the Husky Stadium Transportation Management Plan study, coordinating all project work, from initial outline of scope and timeline through implementation and documentation. This includes hiring, training, and supervising a team of more than 30 people to conduct a survey of Husky football game attendees and analyze data; obtaining data from agencies involved in providing transportation for Husky football game days; and preparing a report that will be submitted by the University of Washington to the City of Seattle to demonstrate regulatory compliance.

Students can read more and apply on the HuskyJobs website.

Students join free, first-timers save big

APA membership is now free to all full- and part-time students actively enrolled or matriculated in any university or college degree program (not just planning) for the duration of their studies. And, when students complete their studies, they are entitled to two years of reduced dues to bridge the gap between learning and earning.

First-time members also qualify for discounted introductory dues. Please pass the news about our special offer for new members to friends and colleagues who have never joined APA but would benefit from membership.

APA designed this new membership structure to encourage students and other new members — from both planning and non-planning backgrounds — to join and stay with APA, making us a stronger and more diverse association.