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Idea Lab Assistant - Summer
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Job ID 5989
Job Type On-Campus Jobs-Summer (Hourly)
Employer Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Date Posted Mar 22, 2024
Category Arts
Job Description

Do you love creating? Do you love organizing? Do you love problem solving? Do you consider yourself a tinkerer, a maker or a designer who loves to dabble in and experiment with tools, materials and technologies? We are looking for talented, inquisitive students to prepare the Idea Lab over the summer for the upcoming academic year.

 

Additionally, this position will primarily work with the Entrepreneurship Staff in providing overall administrative and program support for the summer and upcoming academic year.

 

When applying, please include a COVER LETTER telling why you want this position and resume. You'll need to combine these two items into one PDF and upload it to the resume field of the application.

 

Job Duties

  • Support the Entrepreneurship Staff

  • Support Entrepreneurship programming and events

  • General help, organizing, and routine clean up of the Idea Lab

  • Prepare the Idea Lab for the upcoming academic year

  • Support the needs of anyone in the Idea Lab

  • Additional duties as assigned

Job Requirements
  • Be fun, curious, high functioning and hard working

  • Like to get messy, try out crazy ideas, question assumptions and work from your imagination

  • Willingness to learn new things

  • Responsible, reliable, and accountable

  • Willing and able to meet deadlines and follow instructions

  • Strong communication skills and attention to detail

  • Be an independent worker who takes the initiative to help out when not asked

  • Media and design experience for signage/promotions for space and events is a plus

  • Bonus specific skills: sewing, woodworking, spinning, knitting, power tools skills, vinyl cutters, Adobe Creative Cloud software, weaving, felting, circuit boards, glue guns, cutting, taping, skills around mending, repairing, fixing things, anything tech related, etc.

Available Openings 2
Hours 5.0 to 10.0 hours per week
Hourly Rate $15.57/hour
Time Frame Summer
Contact Name Briana Riley
Contact Email briley@macalester.edu
Work Location N/A
Phone N/A


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