Join the team and support student engagement in the arts
Resources Team - Roble Arts Gym (RAG) and Equipment Lending Library (ELL) Staff
Love spending time at the Roble Arts Gym?
Want to help students access equipment to make art?
Join our RAG and ELL staff!
We are a flexible and helpful team who love the arts and want to make the Roble Arts Gym (RAG) accessible to all students. This is a paid position for current Stanford Students, is part-time (about 4-8 hours per week), and lasts through June 2024 with the option of continuing into the following year.
Description:
The Front Desk staff at RAG (or “RAG Staff”)* are the face of VPA’s premier student maker space! RAG offers several creative spaces, which are all both reservable and drop-in, all free of charge, and span multiple disciplines – a rehearsal/performance space, a music room with a Vocal Recording Booth, a Virtual Reality room, and a visual arts space.
RAG Staff are primarily responsible for running these spaces, accommodating all student guests from check-in to check-out, and helping students of all interest levels immerse more deeply in the greater arts ecosystem at Stanford. This will be an ideal position to engage in a creative environment and use down time to study and work on personal projects.
Duties will primarily include opening or locking RAG (depending on the shift), ensuring that students sign in with their ID, and assisting students with equipment needs and questions. We are seeking students with deep values and commitment to accessibility and customer service*. RAG Staff will also receive training in the technical equipment and instructions for oil painting restrictions and requirements. Lastly, RAG Staff will coordinate and lead team cleaning sessions with each other 2-3 times a quarter.
If interested, RAG students can complement or supplement their hours by working at the Equipment Lending Library (ELL), located in the Old Union basement. The ELL is a free service through which students can access speakers, microphones and mic stands, cameras, LED lights, backdrops, and other equipment. All Resources and Communities cohorts* can also pick up extra hours through other "gigs" throughout the year (e.g. tabling, Winter and Spring festivals, supporting other VPA efforts).
Work may require completing physical tasks that involve standing, crouching, turning, running, pulling, pushing, lifting and carrying medium-heavy and heavy objects, reaching for items on tall shelves, and exposure to / handling of media and artwork that may be high-stimulation for the senses (e.g. multi-color lighting, visual art with “busy” and complex patterns, sudden “pops” from speakers, audio feedback).
*The RAG and ELL cohorts comprise the two cohorts of VPA’s Resources Team, supervised by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts and the Institute for Diversity and the Arts (IDA). Accessibility and customer service are pillars and priority across all cohorts of the Resources and Communities Teams.
How to apply:
We are also recruiting for several other campus arts engagement roles—you can apply to multiple positions with a single application. To apply for this and/or other campus arts engagement roles, please submit the following materials on Handshake:
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement: Upload a personal statement that addresses the following:
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- The positions for which you'd like to be considered and your specific interest in each role. (You can apply for up to 3 positions in your application.)
- Tell us about a meaningful arts engagement (it doesn't have to be Stanford related.)
For questions about this role please contact Claudia Dorn (cvdorn@stanford.edu) or Tyler "EagleBabel" Brooks (tcbrooks@stanford.edu).
This position is Federal Work-Study eligible - pay range ($16-$20/hour).
Communities Team - OVPA Student Community Liaisons
Amplify student voices in the arts.
The Office of the Vice President for the Arts (OVPA) is hiring 1-2 students to join the Student Community Liaisons cohort for the 2023-24 academic year. This is a paid position for current Stanford Students, is part-time (about 4-5 hours per week), and lasts through June 2024 with the option to continue into the following year.
Description:
The Student Community Liaisons (or, for short, “OVPA Liaisons” or “Liaisons”)* work with other students in the Stanford arts community to identify student needs (i.e. student culture, academics, pre-professional growth, art-making support); develop and create new communicative strategies for supporting arts students; and promote arts offerings in VPA and Stanford’s arts ecosystem broadly.
OVPA is seeking 1-2 passionate students who wish to amplify student voices in the arts; create “feedback loops” between students and staff in the arts; and represent, acknowledge, and address the many interests and needs of different parties throughout the arts – students, faculty and staff.
Qualifications:
- Strong values in and commitment to accessibility and essential customer service skills*;
- Excitement to meet with and partner with VPA staff (pro-staff and students) and members of the students arts community;
- Willingness to attend student-facing Arts events for an average of 2-3 hours per week;
- Broad and always-growing knowledge of the student arts community;
- Experience with standard office software (Word, Excel, etc.) as well as web tools for coordinating schedules and gathering information (when2meet, Google Forms, Survey Monkey);
- Experience with planning events and facilitating community conversations (i.e. running focus groups, conducting interviews, convening town halls);
- Collaborative, critical, and strategic thinking and communication skills;
- Skills and/or interest in data analysis, especially data like social media engagement, event success metrics (i.e. RSVPs, peak/total attendance, numbered feedback), and anecdotal feedback from focus groups and town halls.
- Excitement to partner with the IDA Community Organizers cohort as members of the greater Arts Coordinators cohort*, for student-serving and -engaging efforts (e.g. Bring Your Own Coffee potluck-and-info-session, town halls, open houses at Roble Arts Gym and Harmony House, all-campus tabling events).
Work may require completing physical tasks that involve standing, crouching, turning, running, pulling, pushing, lifting and carrying medium-heavy and heavy objects, reaching for items on tall shelves, and exposure to / handling of media and artwork that may be high-stimulation for the senses (e.g. multi-color lighting, visual art with “busy” and complex patterns, sudden “pops” from speakers, audio feedback).
*The OVPA Student Community Liaisons cohort and the IDA Student Community Organizers cohort comprise the two cohorts of VPA’s Communities Team, supervised by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts (OVPA) and the Institute for Diversity and the Arts (IDA). These two cohorts together make a greater cohort named the “Arts Coordinators.” Accessibility and customer service are pillars and priority across all cohorts of the Resources and Communities Teams.
How to apply:
We are also recruiting for several other campus arts engagement roles—you can apply to multiple positions with a single application. To apply for this and/or other campus arts engagement roles, please submit the following materials on Handshake:
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement: Upload a personal statement that addresses the following:
-
- The positions for which you'd like to be considered and your specific interest in each role. (You can apply for up to 3 positions in your application.)
- Tell us about a meaningful arts engagement (it doesn't have to be Stanford related.)
For questions about this role please contact Claudia Dorn (cvdorn@stanford.edu) or Tyler "EagleBabel" Brooks (tcbrooks@stanford.edu).
This position is Federal Work-Study eligible - pay range ($16-$20/hour).
Contact:
Claudia Dorn
Associate Director of Student and Campus Engagement
Office of the Vice President for the Arts
cvdorn@stanford.edu
Contact:
Tyler "EagleBabel" Brooks
Student Engagement Associate
Office of the Vice President for the Arts
tcbrooks@stanford.edu
