SUMMARY: The Queens University of Charlotte Campus Recreation Graduate Assistant’s overall mission is to enrich the co-curricular experience of students at Queens University of Charlotte. This role establishes and maintains an active, highly visible, and deeply engaged presence to sustain and grow strong collaborative relationships with students, university faculty and staff. Primary responsibilities include student staff supervision, scheduling and training, managing an intramural sports program, and growing wellness programing for the campus community. This part-time, 20 hours a week Graduate Assistant position reports to the Assistant Athletic Director Sport Administration/Director of Campus Recreation.
The successful candidate must be currently enrolled as a full-time graduate student at Queens University of Charlotte. This GA role includes tuition remission for up to two (2) courses per semester, including summer, while actively serving in the GA role. In addition, GAs are provided campus dining plans of 5 (living off campus) or 10 (living on campus) swipes during the academic year, free on-campus parking, and free membership to Queens Fitness Center. GAs enjoy flexible scheduling. Time away must be coordinated in advance with the GA’s immediate supervisor.
The GA is recognized as a University Official and represents the university and the department on and off university property. Under the supervision of the Assistant Athletic Director Sport Administration/Director of Campus Recreation, the GA position begins when filled. There is no expressed or implied commitment to a paid position upon completion of the internship.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
As a GA, you will learn and apply knowledge and skills in the following areas:
Non-essential Duties and Responsibilities
As a GA, you will learn and apply knowledge and skills in the following areas:
Degree Alignment:
Experience, Knowledge & Skills Required
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Live-in Potential
Application Process
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Queens will continue to accept applications until the position is filled.
About Queens University of Charlotte
Located in the heart of the nation’s second-fastest-growing metropolitan area, Queens University of Charlotte leverages the city’s diverse and thriving environment as an extended classroom. Nationally recognized for undergraduate programs in international and interdisciplinary education, Queens blends the best of liberal arts learning with professional preparation and community engagement. Focused on supporting success for diverse learners, faculty build close and collaborative relationships with students and help them build intentional and individualized roadmaps for flourishing at Queens and beyond. At the graduate program level, the University offers innovative educational experiences that help learners advance professionally and retool for new opportunities. Our environs afford faculty myriad opportunities to advance their own professional growth and teaching and research interests by collaborating with vibrant industry, non-profit, and community organization sectors.
Because of our history of innovation and our legacy of strong leadership, Queens is positioned to be among the new forerunners of American higher education. This is a defining moment for Queens. While other institutions are focused on sustaining and surviving, we are thinking much bigger.
Institutions that understand what is needed and are willing to reimagine what is possible can position themselves to thrive and strengthen their market position after the pandemic with innovative approaches that are deeply connected to the world and its greatest challenges.
By 2030, Queens aspires to become the leading, private, national university of Charlotte with deep, meaningful, and reciprocal connections to the needs of our local community and economy; inventive and multidisciplinary academic programs that are connected to the world’s most pressing challenges and biggest areas of opportunity; a fully connected, integrated, and innovative set of experiences that support holistic wellness and wellbeing; a culture of continuous improvement and investment that enables faculty and staff to flourish and achieve their full potential; and a comprehensive approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion that begins on campus and radiates throughout the community.
Queens University of Charlotte is an equal opportunity employer and is firmly committed to supporting and celebrating all forms of diversity. Queens does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, national origin, disability, political beliefs, veteran status, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law in the administration of its educational and admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletic programs, employment and hiring policies, or other University-administered programs.
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