ASUWB Legislative Liaison (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 sit on the Civic Actions Committee as a representative.
• Shall coordinate civic engagement initiatives including voter registration and Get Out the Vote efforts in collaboration with the Director of Legislative Affairs.
• Serve as liaison for local affairs by regularly meeting and corresponding with local elected officials.
• Coordinate Huskies on the Hill lobby day with ASUW campuses in collaboration with the Director of Legislative Affairs.
• Serve as liaison for Cascadia Student Government as needed.
• Shall meet monthly with the UW Bothell Director of Government and Community Relations.
• Shall attend at least two (2) Senate meetings per quarter.
• Shall hold at least ten (10) office hours per week.
• Shall respond to any ASUWB-related emails within two (2) official class days.

Pay Rate:

This position is stipended at $1709/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 identifying and confronting the ways in which institutional and interpersonal discrimination inhibits the lives and education of our students, staff and faculty.

All new student employees must also complete UW's online Title IX course about preventing and responding to sex-and gender-based violence and harassment.

 

Qualifications

In order to be eligible for this position, applicants must be: 

• Committed to working in a culturally diverse environment 
• Interested in contributing to the mission and goals of Student Engagement & Activities (SEA) and UWB
• A matriculated University of Washington Bothell student
• Able to commit for the entire academic year, incl. fall, winter, and spring quarters
• Enrolled in at least 6 credits as an undergraduate student or at least 5 credits as a graduate student each quarter of employment
• Able to work in person (percentage of in-person work depends on position)
• Able to participate in required trainings - dates listed below (subject to