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.
  • Shall coordinate specific on campus mobilization efforts as it relates to our state and federal legislative priorities, in conjunction with the Director of Legislative Affairs and Marketing Coordinator.
  • Shall serve as liaison for local affairs by regularly meeting and corresponding with local elected officials. 
  • Shall monitor and analyze federal legislation, policies and initiatives as it relates to our legislative agenda, in conjunction with the Director of Legislative Affairs.
  • Shall in the absence of the Director of Legislative Affairs, serve on the Washington Student Association Legislative Proposal Committee. 
  • Shall collaborate with the United States Student Association and other organizations as it relates to federal legislative priorities. 
  • Perform related duties and tasks as assigned by the Director of Legislative Affairs. 
  • Shall serve as the liaison for the Cascadia College as necessary.
  • Shall meet with the UW Bothell Director of Government and Community Relations quarterly.
  • 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
  • Shall respond to any ASUWB-related within two (2) official class days. 

Pay Rate:

This position is stipended at $1709/month. 

Employment Period

August 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