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Educational Development Interdisciplinary Assistantship

The Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching is seeking up to three graduate students to support content creation related to educational development topics, including generative AI in learning and teaching contexts, the science of how we learn, and evidence of effective teaching.

Positions would be approximately 5 hours a week, hired quarterly, with the possibility for renewal. Positions pay $25/hour.

Key Responsibilities

  • This position will collaborate with educational developers to:
  • Create Learning & Teaching Guides
  • Develop communications materials, including drafting and revising written content
  • Design slide decks and infographics
  • Support video production

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred applicants will demonstrate:

  • Curiosity about emerging trends in teaching and learning
  • Ability to gather and synthesize pedagogical scholarship
  • Alignment with the Searle Center’s style guide and branding in the preparation, review, and presentation of materials, ensuring accuracy, clarity, consistency
  • Consistent presence and follow-through with established timelines
  • Commitment to our values of critical reflection, multi-vocal evidence, and a collaborative spirit

Application Instructions

Email position supervisor Dr. Laura Ferdinand, Assistant Director of Content and Communications, a brief statement (500 words maximum) including:

  • Your name, department, and year in program
  • Your interest and fit for the position
  • Confirm your eligibility to participate in this supplemental funding opportunity (see below).

Eligibility Information

Students may be funded on Interdisciplinary Assistantships through their sixth year only. Due to varying policies, eligibility for this professional development opportunity depends on individual funding arrangements. Students in their fellowship year or those supported by external grants (e.g., NIH, NSF) typically have more flexibility to engage in supplemental funding opportunities. However, students with other funding configurations may be approved on a case-by-case basis.