ASUWB Director of Legislative Affairs (2025-26)

Description

UW Bothell offers student employment opportunities to help prepare students by providing practical work experience. Students are provided professional development and mentoring to develop skills to support post-graduation employment preparation and success.

Student Engagement & Activities (SEA) - Duties & Responsibilities:

• Contribute respectfully to the diverse and inclusive work environment at UWB and the Student Engagement & Activities (SEA) department
• Perform outreach to students about SEA programs, events, and services to promote student involvement, and provide current information about campus resources
• Maintain shared workspace with other student leaders, including supplies management, rotating cleaning and organizational duties, prompt reporting of issues, etc.
• Maintain active, timely communication with advisor(s)/supervisor and team
• Connect with the UW Bothell student body to find out what different students want and/or need
• Maintain documents and folders in a shared digital filing system, on the student engagement platform, social media, and other technology assigned by the department
• Perform clerical duties including documenting and updating processes, data entry, maintaining work calendars, and scheduling meetings
• Support and staff SEA events and operations as needed. This includes but is not limited to: New Student Orientation, Welcome Week, SEA org support, and large-scale campus events
• Represent the SEA department at events and as requested by supervisor
• Support the recruitment of future student leaders during hiring processes

 

Role-specific duties

• • Shall serve as a voting member of the Board of Directors
  • Shall advocate for the approved ASUWB legislative agenda in Olympia and Washington D.C. during the legislative session
  • Shall sit on and chair the Civic Actions Committee to establish the legislative agenda based on student input and data. 
  • Shall coordinate the annual Huskies on the Hill lobby in collaboration with the Legislative Liaison, ASUW Tacoma, ASUW Seattle and the Graduate & Professional Student Senate
  • Shall serve as the liaison between ASUW Tacoma, ASUW Seattle and the GPSS, as necessary.
  • Shall coordinate civic engagement initiatives, including voter registration and Get Out the Vote efforts, in collaboration with the Legislative Liaison.
  • Shall meet with the UW Bothell Director of Government and Community Relations at the beginning of the academic year.
  • Shall meet with the UW Office of State Relations and Federal Relations throughout the legislative session.
  • Shall share legislative updates as requested or necessary, but at minimum, shall share updates on the legislative agenda after each legislative cutoff.
  • Shall create an end-of-session legislative report for the ASUWB Senate. 
  • Shall serve as the Washington Student Association Legislative Proposal Committee and as a member of the Legislative Liaison Program. 
  • Shall collaborate with the United States Student Association and other organizations as it relates to federal legislative priorities. 
  • Shall attend at least two (2) Senate meetings per quarter (may join remotely during the legislative session)
  • Shall hold at least ten (10) office hours per week outside of the legislative session. 
  • Must be available as necessary throughout the legislative session. 
  • Shall respond to any ASUWB-related within two (2) official class days. 

Pay Rate:

This position is stipended at $2124/month. 

Employment Period

July 1st,  2025 - June 30th, 2026

Employment is dependent on SAF funding approval.

UW Bothell Diversity Statement: Diversity and Inclusion are core values and priorities of the University of Washington Bothell. Our work begins with the acceptance and celebration of the differences that are represented through the many diverse and minoritized communities on our campus and in the surrounding community. We recognize that we are bound together in a collective experience and that our actions impact all in our community. When we focus on the lives of the most marginalized groups among us, we also create conditions of equity, justice and academic excellence for everyone.

As embodied in our Diversity Action Plan, we are engaged in an ongoing process of identifyin