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The Director focuses on crafting a cohesive vision and healthy, positive culture for all of Student Staff. By collaborating with Professional Staff, the Chief of Staff, the Board, and the Team Leads, the Director helps ensure that every staff member feels supported and successful. The Director is also responsible for planning and running Student Staff Training and the weekly Student Staff meetings. This involves creating a year-long curriculum plan, inviting in relevant guest speakers, and setting individual, team, and Staff level goals. The Director should serve as an intermediary between Pro-Staff and Student Staff, ensuring effective communication and continuous program improvement in all aspects. The Director will also serve as the head of the Catalyst team, and collaborate with Board Seats to establish and maintain a beneficial relationship with the Board of Advocates. The Director role is flexible and varies every year based on the individual. Most importantly, the Director is incredibly invested in the personal, professional, and leadership development of all Staff members. A strong sense of community, appreciation for the strengths and weaknesses of PLC, creativity, and organizational skills are critical for this role. Pay Rate - $5,000/Academic Year

As the Chief of Staff, you will serve as a contact point and bridge between the Director of Student Staff, the student staff, and the professional staff. The Chief of Staff works in two areas: 1) Work with and gauge the pulse of the student staff to provide resources, support, and feedback as needed, and 2) Help the Director of Student Staff plan, develop, and execute the goals of each semester. Additionally, the Chief of Staff is the lead for all team leads. The Chief of Staff drafts the agenda of Team Lead meetings and runs it by the Director and each team lead before meetings. Additionally, the Chief of Staff facilitates the weekly team lead meeting by maintaining a schedule, and a topic agenda, and assigns a note-taker. Notes and meeting minutes will be reviewed and cleaned by the Chief of Staff. These notes will be available along with all other student staff documents in the student staff shared folders. The Chief of Staff will help facilitate communication and activities among the larger Catalyst team. Primarily this aspect will be working with the AMP/Board Seats. The role itself is very flexible and will continue to be defined by the needs of the student staff and the Director of Student Staff. Pay Rate = $4,000/Academic Year

The AMP/Board Seats act in two different capacities, both as liaisons between PLC alumni and PLC students. As student board seat, this student attends all PLC board meetings (3-4/year), provides the student perspective to board discussions, and brings important information from the meetings back to the student body. As the AMP coordinator, this student plans and implements Industry Nights as well as the Alumni Match Program (AMP). AMP is a new matching initiative, matching junior and senior PLCers with board members and other alumni, in an effort to help students start a professional network, get professional and life advice from those that have come before them, and gain beneficial contacts and connections as they move toward graduation. Pay Rate = $3,000/Academic Year

First-Year, Multi-Level, Complex Leadership, and Global Class Advisors (CAs) have varying roles, but every CA will work directly with the professor to shape and implement curriculum, engage with students/peers, and contribute to the larger student staff conversations. The most significant role of the CA is to create relationships - with students, other CAs, and instructors. Being a CA is about listening to each student, putting students’ needs over yours, collaborating with other CAs, providing feedback and grading assignments, and most of all, ensuring that your students and you are having fun and learning from each other! All CAs, regardless of course assignment will have opportunities to work with Dr. Shepherd Macklin as the Academic Director and the student staff Assistant Academic Director for feedback, coaching, teaching observations, and general professional development. Please answer these questions to apply for all of the academic CA positions. Answer the questions that apply to all CA's and to the positions (course) you are applying to specifically. Pay Rates: Academic Advisor - $3,000/Year First Year CA - $4,000/Academic Year Multi CA - $2000/Semester Global CA - $1,500/Semester

CORPS team (Community Outreach and Recruitment of Prospective Scholars) is the public face of PLC and is in charge of PLC’s recruiting and selection operations. Team members have many responsibilities that evolve throughout the year and recruiting cycle. These include everything from high school outreach to application reading and ultimately interviewing and selecting students. CORPS team works closely with pro staff to promote PLC as an organization and to craft dynamic cohorts of students with extraordinary leadership potential.

The Social Media Coordinator position works on the Communications Team. As the Social Media Coordinator, you will be responsible for the PLC Instagram and the PLC Now weekly electronic newsletter for PLC students. Instagram is our main contact point for current students and it will be your responsibility to create content for and post on IG daily, as well as post stories updating PLCers on current events and reminders. Some examples of posts might be senior and First-Year spotlights, event reminders, campus events, deadlines, and cool things that PLCers are doing. You will also use this platform to advertise for PLC, especially around application season. Note: You must be a master of collaboration - you will collaborate with all other teams on student staff and it can be hard to navigate. Your organizational skills must be on point. Social Media is also responsible for the content and creation of a weekly PLC Now that is sent out to all current students. As the writer of the PLC Now, you are responsible for including events and opportunities submitted by staff, students, or community members. Lastly, most of the past social media coordinators have chosen to take on special projects such as graphic design, video production, and merchandise initiatives. While this is not required, it is a creative and special part of the job that allows you to explore different elements of social media that interest you.

The Alumni data/Alumni newsletter Coordinator is responsible for updating alumni data to build strong and intentional relationships between current PLC students and the vast alumni network. This staff member reaches out to alumni and interviews them biweekly through Zoom, email, or in-person meetings. Quarterly, the alumni liaison writes the alumni newsletter, which keeps alumni informed about the current state of PLC and updates from fellow alums. It features students, staff members, PLC clubs, and alumni. The alumni liaison fosters connections between current students and alumni by sharing offered opportunities and introducing those with similar interests. A new responsibility this year will be working with the data project admin to update the alumni section of the PLC website. This role is HIGHLY collaborative. You must be willing and available to work with other members of the PLC student staff to achieve initiatives such as Industry Nights, AMP, etc. Please note, that this role is to curate the experiences of PLC alumni and create personal connections, not fundraise.

The PLC Data Project/Website Administrator takes on several of the technical aspects of the PLC program. The primary responsibilities of this role include maintaining and updating the PLC website, as well as coordinating the Data Project during the spring semester. The PLC website is hosted through the ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ Web Express platform. Updating and maintaining the website does not require a technical background, but it is helpful to have experience working with website administration. Responsibilities may include adding new content as needed, updating pages to be accurate and timely, and making sure the website expresses professionalism to visitors. The PLC Data Project is an annual survey sent out to every student in the program. The survey asks about program requirements, attitudes towards PLC, and other data that can be helpful for students and professional staff. This survey is maintained through Qualtrics. Responsibilities include adding, modifying, and removing questions to fit the needs of the project, analyzing the resultant data, reporting results to the board and professional staff, and managing a team to source other statistics about PLC. In addition to these projects, the PLC data and website staff member may also be responsible for working with the MyPLC app and website and assisting students with technical difficulties.

All Class Coordinators have four primary roles among others: 1) Sending updates/emails/GroupMe to their cohort every week, 2) planning and running Senior Retreat and First-Year Orientation, 3) planning the other PLC annual events with other coordinators - Fall Fest, Fall Gratitude Dinner, Talent Show, PLC Prom, Senior Send-Off, 4) planning informal cohort get-togethers that increase bonding and connectivity in and between the cohorts - intramural teams, Fiske Planetarium shows, dinners, etc. You must be a master of organization and a master of timely communication to be a class coordinator. You will need to meet with the class coordinator team weekly, attend the student staff meeting on Tuesday mornings, and meet with the Community Team each week. You will have a heavy workload - both in terms of tactics and time investment. Pay Rate = $3,000/Academic Year

The Bridge Team works to “bridge” the gap between the wider PLC student community and the day-to-day operations of PLC. This includes facilitating conversations and building understanding between PLC students and the student staff, professional staff & faculty, and other ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ leadership. The Bridge Team is also tasked with "bridging" the divide that exists between PLC and other campus leadership organizations, attempting to shed the elitist and exclusive reputation gained by the program over the past 50 years. Lastly, the Bridge Team works to ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusive measures are employed to increase the sense of belonging among PLCers. Pay Rate = $3,000/Academic Year

The PLC Squared Coordinator surveys matches students, and kicks off the PLC2 program in September while maintaining check-ins and offering assistance to PLC students involved in the program throughout the year. This position is responsible for keeping the momentum and energy going for PLC peer mentor pairs all year by assigning speed dating, Instagram challenges, and events that the pairs can attend together. This position works within the Community Team on the PLC student staff. The Mentor Programs Coordinator must attend weekly student staff meetings and weekly Community Team meetings as well as host 1-2 office hours during the week.

The TLC for PLC Coordinators are the mental health advocates for the PLC community of students. This position is the link between PLC students and mental health resources on campus, off-campus, online, etc. This person also advocates and advances the mental health of the PLC community by providing tips, skill-building, one-on-one meet-ups, and informal community activities. This team has a passion for mental health advocacy, research, partnerships, and collaboration. Though TLC for PLC plans small, intimate, events such as meditations, workshops, game nights, crafts nights, book clubs, etc. They also collaborate with almost every other PLC student staff team to bring mental health practices to students. Pay Rate = $2,500/Academic Year

Your job is to intentionally create Deep Dives for PLCers to expose your peers to meaningful topics, important people doing the work, and possibilities for solutions to systemic social issues. Deep Dives are informative and interactive, one or two-day-long events tailored to inspire exploration and leadership within issues with many social intersectionalities in ŷ���ڱ���Ƶ. A lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion can be found in all industries, but people tend to only focus on the industry as a stand-alone instead of considering everything that it impacts and is impacted by. By focusing on the intersections of social issues, we as developing leaders, can better understand the current problems and future solutions. Furthermore, Deep Dives serve to align the academics, community, experiential education and service pillars of PLC - aligning the program. Pay Rate = $3,250/Academic Year

The Service Coordinators are in charge of mobilizing the PLC community around our program pillar of service. The Service Coordinators need to be a masters of communication, delegation, trust in their peers, gauging engagement, and pivoting when needed. This team communicates with the VRC and community partners to arrange semester, year-long, or one-time volunteer activities for PLC students. Additionally, the Service Coordinators lead the Service Cohort and oversee the Chance for Change service grant competition. This position can be very demanding and calls for a good delegator. This team fulfills their weekly hours by attending and participating in the weekly PLC student staff meeting, as well as the Change Team weekly meeting.

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