Temporary SHPEP Grant Project Student Development Assistant (SDA)

Department:

Location:

Belknap Campus, Health Sciences Center

Time Type:

Worker Type:

Temporary (Fixed Term)

Job Req ID:

R106584

Minimum Requirements:

Two years of relevant experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience.

Position Description:

This is a temporary grant funded position from May 2025-July 2025 which will require shift work.  

The Temporary Grant Project Student Development Assistant (SDA) in the Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) will be responsible for the following:

Supervision and Communication

• Serve as the first point of contact for the scholar participants. Which includes managing scholar GroupMe, helping disseminate information, assisting with getting scholars connected to the correct resources, etc.

• Track scholar attendance during all sessions, and track attendance for buses.

• Reach out to scholars if they are late or absent from a session and/or designated meeting time.

• Assist scholars with course content, technical challenges, and responding to scholar requests.

• Serve as chaperones on weekend activities, service events, ride on buses etc.

• Enforce program rules/regulations/restrictions.

Mentorship

• Support and foster relationships between scholars within the cohort and the SDA team.

• Help supervise, tutor, and mentor a group of ten scholars through the cluster system.

• Be willing to talk about your journey to your health professional school.

• Attend all programmatic components.

• Serve as tutors. Participants will have time set aside to study as a group; your job is to make sure that they understand the information.  (This is why it is critical for you to attend sessions.)

Programming

• Plan social activities for participants and lead at least one small group activity per week.

• Have icebreakers or activities ready when presenters cancel or are running late.

• Suggest and assist with optional programming initiatives (i.e. volunteer opportunities, study session etc.).

Administrative Duties

• Assist with scholar registration, and housing check in and out.

• Monitor participants to check for health issues; transport to emergency/urgent care centers if needed.

• Serve in an on-call rotation

• Report scholar misconduct.

• Communicate with the SHPEP Leadership team when/if issues arise.

• Assist with orientation activities, and course content.

• Help support scholars in their engagement in the program.

• Any other duties the SHPEP Leadership team deems would be beneficial to add to help with the impact and integrity of the program.

• Other Duties as assigned

Preferred Experience and Education

• Has received a bachelor’s degree.

• Must be entering or attending a health professional school (i.e. dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy) and/or taking a gap with the intention of attending health professional school. 

• Participant of a summer pipeline program (i.e. SHPEP/SMDEP, MCAT-DAT, PEPP, Gear Up, etc.).

• Able to support the program for the full 6 weeks plus one week of training (May 2025-July 2025).

• Enthusiastic about mentoring and supporting scholars and the SHPEP Program.

The Health Science Center Office of Health Equity and Engagement encourages candidates to apply who have demonstrated capacity to create inclusive work environments, will work effectively on increasingly diverse teams, and will serve the increasingly diverse students we admit and want to attract.

Target Compensation : $18.00/hr. for up to 40 hours/week. During the first two virtual weeks of the program (June 2-June 13), Student Development Assistants will work weekday shifts between 9 AM and 5 PM. During the in-person portion of the program, Student Development Assistants will work varying 6-hour shifts, including some evenings and weekends. There will be approximately two overnight on-call shifts per week.

Target Compensation Maximum:

Target Compensation Minimum:

Compensation will be commensurate to candidate experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Louisville is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, age, color, national origin, ethnicity