Job Summary
Job Title: Indianapolis Student Life Early Start Summer Intern – Student Service
Division: Student Life
Department: Student Activities and Organizations
Compensation Hours/Week
$12.50 /hour Weekly average, approximately 15 to 20 hours per week
Required hours may include days, evenings, weekends, overnight hours and holidays
Employment
The Division of Student Life is committed to making every experience at Purdue University a learning opportunity for students. Employment within our division provides you the opportunity to work with other great students and leaders. As part of your employment, we incorporate the Leadership and Professional Development Competencies and the Steps to Leaps Learning Pillars into your learning and performance management experience to ensure you are building the skills employers want.
Job Description
The Office of Summer and Winter Sessions (OSWS), in partnership with Student Life is looking for a dedicated and passionate student to serve as the Lead Intern for the Early Start Summer program. The Early Start program welcomes first-year students to campus in July to earn academic credit and experience events and programs before the official start of the academic year.
The Lead Intern would support OSWS staff in conducting training for peer mentors, staffing events and programs, and office and clerical support as needed. Through this opportunity students will get experience in an office setting, building skills such as event planning, budgeting, marketing, professional communication, and more.
Qualifications and Responsibilities
Qualifications
The ideal candidate is enrolled at Purdue Indianapolis. The position start date is flexible but ideally would begin late June-early July to help prepare for the arrival of Peer Mentors and student participants. The position would run through August 15th, 2025. This position is paid and is for approximately 15-20 hours a week. All applications must include a resume.
• High school diploma or equivalent and minimum of one semester of college coursework successfully completed
• Must be actively enrolled at Purdue University or Purdue Global
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Flexible and dependable with a strong attention to detail
• Problem solving, logic and reasoning skills
• Customer service oriented
• Ability to multi-task and work within deadlines
• Ability to work independently and with a team
• Be timely and organized
Position Responsibilities
• Maintain safety and risk management standards of the department
• Exhibit friendliness, diplomacy, and tact in responding to concerns
• Handle emergency situations and prioritize responsibilities while continuing to provide the highest level of customer service
• Maintain confidentiality and exhibit professional conduct when handling sensitive information
• Serve and participate on committees within the division to provide feedback from a student lens
• Present ideas to division senior leadership as identified
• Responsible for all scheduled shifts (based on class/exam schedules for the semester)
• Must attend all scheduled staff meetings to gain and/or share pertinent information
• Other duties as assigned
Core Competencies
Transferable Skill Development:
Students employed in this role will develop and demonstrate a number of transferable skills essential for future employment success and be reviewed on these skills in their performance evaluation.
Communication (Verbal, Written, Non-Verbal, Listen & Observe, Summarize & Distill Information)
• Demonstrate professional verbal communication in all interactions
• Demonstrate enthusiasm; engage and connect with customers to promote excellent customer experience
• Verbally communicates to staff on situations that may arise due to problems
• Written communication to complete accurate food usage records and food temperatures according to established procedures
Ways of Thinking (Systems Thinking & Planning, Reflective & Analytical Reasoning, Idea Generation, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Ethics)
• Utilize policies and knowledge to proactively make decisions and solve problems for area assigned
• Develop new or novel ideas through critical thinking and creative processes that address issues and/or lead to change
• Understand standards and expectations for personal and professional ethical behavior
• Demonstrate knowledge of the position and operation
Collaboration (Organization Behavior & Teamwork, Appropriate & Productive Relationships, Helping Others & Working Together, Cultural Intelligence & Inclusion, Service & Social Responsibility)
• Working together with co-workers and demonstrate flexibility in a fast-paced, team atmosphere
• Establish productive relationships with customers and staff
• Acknowledge and support customers and staff with unique needs and differing backgrounds
• Work independently to complete responsibilities
• Proactively and willingly acquires new skills, tasks, procedures and projects
• Provide support to fellow team members
Self-Awareness (Self-Understanding, Continuous Learning, Initiative & Follow-Through, Personal Responsibility, Resiliency)
• Demonstrate time management skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrate initiative; Understand and respond to the various needs of customers and staff
• Maintain positive attitude and enthusiasm in times of ambiguity and peak time of demand
• Complete work independently in an efficient time manner
• Demonstrate dependability and responsibility within operation
• Demonstrate punctuality by always being on time to each shift