Department: Urban Education

Salary: $15 - $19 per hour

Description:

Student Research Assistant

This is a grant-funded project to address issues related to connectivity, literacy, and the preparation of the labor force to meet the challenge of economic growth in Houston, Texas.
UHD students will be hired in various roles to help support the youth and their families that were selected to take part in this project.

Please state in your cover letter the position for which you are interested in interviewing.

UHD Students will have the opportunity to apply for the following positions:

1. Teacher Candidate Students

The project will employ five (5) student workers who are Urban Education Department bilingual teacher candidates or UHD college students who are bilingual. This is also a way to encourage Hispanics to enter the teaching profession. Under the teach-the-teacher model, the student workers will receive literacy education skills from the grant officers in order to assist families and bilingual students. Each student worker will be responsible to assist a number of families each semester.

2. IT Student Worker

The project will employ one (1) IT student workers (bilingual) who are current students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Technology to configure laptops and trouble shoots under the supervision of the full-time IT staff and the project officers. This student will configure laptops, answer IT hardware/software related phone calls, trouble shoots.

3. Story Readers

The project will employ two (2) story readers who are current UHD students in the Department of Arts and Communication will give the professional quality to the e-stories in terms of proper pronunciations, intonation, speed, fluency, and expression.

4. Learning Activity Designers

The project will employ two (2) activity designers who are UHD students in the Computer Science and Engineering Department will design activities to accompany e-stories through integrating practices of modelled, shared and guided reading, literature circles, and close reading. The reading strategies will be used to reinforce phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension strategies, and critical thinking. They will also modify activities submitted by student workers/tutors to make them publishable.


5. Illustrators/Graphic Designers

The project will employ two (2) illustrator/graphic designers who are current students in the Fine Arts Department design visuals and characters to bring e-stories to life. They will also prepare images to be used on web pages and project flyers for publicity and marketing.

6. Video Editors

The project will employ two (2) video editors who are current students in UHD Computer Science and Engineering Department will be on board to ensure the professional qualities of videos and visuals in general are on the professional level before publishing to the Web. One of them will be dedicated to the YouTube channel of the grant project.

Qualifications:
• Must be a current UHD student
• Proficient in Spanish & English (reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills)
• The area of study must match the fields that each position is requesting