Graduate Assistant, Administrative

Grand Canyon University!  One of Arizona’s leading institutions of higher learning. Located in the Valley of Sun in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona, GCU is a regionally accredited, private, nondenominational Christian University. 

The Welcome Programs team is hiring a Graduate Assistant to support the Marketing and Operations team! This role combines academic and administrative tasks, providing valuable experience for those pursuing an instructor or professor career. The GA will be mentored by experienced faculty, gaining hands-on teaching experience, leadership skills, and classroom management techniques.

Additionally, the role involves supporting accreditation efforts, assisting with research, and managing lab operations to ensure a smooth learning environment. This position offers a well-rounded experience for future faculty development.

What you will do:

• Perform a variety of administrative tasks including preparation of Power Point presentations, data entry and analysis, web site development, collating marketing materials and presentations. 

• Facilitate projects 

• May supervise set up of labs, either in physical sciences or computer sciences 

• Assist a faculty member with a research project; engage in literature searches 

• Configuration and management of servers used in the delivery of distance courses  Assisting faculty in the development of new material for their courses. 

• Responsible for planning and organizing the activities of an assigned program, project, unit or function and ensuring the activities’ infrastructure is in place. 

• Review departmental needs and expectations and determines most effective means of execution of specific duties to ensure goals are met in a timely fashion. 

• Develop and schedules program work plans in accordance with specifications and funding limitation; oversees daily operations and coordinates activities of programs and determines priorities. 

• Partner and collaborate with various internal contacts, or customers, to coordinate activities, promote and encourage cooperation of submission or collection of information/data, products or services or process improvement. 

• Manage the flow of activities and acts as liaison to all others involved in the operation. 

• Other duties as assigned.

• May mentor students and student workers.

What you will have:

• Be admitted to a graduate degree seeking program at GCU.  (Certificate only programs do not satisfy this requirement.)

• Have a minimum GPA of 3.0.  (If a student is newly admitted to the University, the admission GPA is considered for this requirement.)  A student must also maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0 during their employment.

• Be enrolled in as a "regular" (not provisional) degree-seeking student for at least 6 graduate level units leading to the degree.  (Undergraduate or audited courses do not satisfy this requirement.)  Hiring departments may require a higher enrollment.

• Assistantships may be revoked at any time duties are not fulfilled satisfactorily.

• Because of the role as student and employee, graduate assistants assume responsibility for upholding the University’s Student Code of Conduct.

• Graduate Assistants are eligible for waiver of tuition for the period employed.  Waiver of tuition may be taxable income.

• Graduate Assistants must follow the HR employment workflow processes and pre-employment background checks.

• Graduate Assistants have restricted work hours (maximum of 29 hours per week).

• After all degree requirements for the planned program of study are met, a student is no longer eligible to receive a graduate assistantship.

• "Incomplete" grades must be removed during the period following the teaching period in which the "I" was recorded in order to continue the assistantship.

• Graduate Assistants are part-time employees and not eligible for GCU’s employment benefits, except those stipulated by law.

Why work at GCU:

• Graduate Assistant/Employee Tuition Program

• Free on-site gyms on campus