Graduate Student Assistant
Part Time
About the job
The Learning and Teaching Nexus (Nexus) at the School of Professional Studies is hiring NYU Graduate Student Assistants to support Nexus colleagues in designing, developing, and assessing learning opportunities to support the work of NYU SPS faculty and advance the NYU SPS Learning Ecosystem.
Nexus colleagues will mentor NYU Graduate Student Assistants to support one of the five (5) Learning and Teaching Nexus (Nexus) work groups:
Service - Provide support for educational technologies.
Learning Experience - Create educational opportunities to advance teaching.
Technology - Implement software as a service (SaaS) solutions to enhance learning and teaching.
Research - Evaluate tools, resources, processes, and operations.
Production - Create consistent and engaging visual aesthetics for Nexus resources/services.
Requirements
General Qualifications (at least two of the following)
Customer service/success team experience
Experience working on an engineering team or software development project
Experience producing interfaces and designs for resources, experiences, and services in the learning domain
Experience building systems for collecting, storing, and analyzing data at scale
Services and product delivery
Strong writing, communication, and organizational skills
Curation of educational resources and collections to enhance learning opportunities
Analysis of large-scale data
Demonstrated a history of creativity and innovation
Experience in a research and development setting or educational start-up
Specific Qualifications (at least one of the following)
Customer/client support
Learning Management Systems
Learning Experience Design
Advanced data analysis skills
Industry design tools (e.g., Sketch, InVision, Overflow, Adobe Creative Cloud). - Web development
Object-oriented programming
Continuous integration/testing/deployment