Faculty of Arts, Student Assistant Research - Political Science

SUMMARY:

The student assistant primarily engaged in research with secondary materials will assist faculty or members of the Dean’s office with various research projects.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES:

• Research, editing, and typing of academic journal articles and books
• Develop and maintain files on issues related to the current project
• Do library and online research as required (e.g. review current literature, statistics, legal research, academic journals, surveys, online databases, etc.)
• Assist with photocopying, typing, filing, and overall organization of these materials
• Work on a variety of initiatives that the Faculty needs assistance with from internal marketing to students, student engagement, course programming
• Communicate with faculty, peers, relevant internal and external partners as directed by faculty
• Research, collate, and assist in planning relevant events and identify ways to connect students to alumni and industry as needed
• Create tracking systems and processes to ensure systems are in place to maintain strategies into the future
• Research, compile data and write papers to be incorporated into proposals a variety of Faculty purposes
• Prepare summary reports including headings and information which can be subsequently used to draft briefing notes or craft power point presentations

REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to follow directions with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated strong attention to detail and quality deliverables
• Ability to use MS Office tools, including databases for tracking or qualitative and/or quantitative studies
• Good interpersonal, organization, research and written skills
• A professional and positive attitude
• Knowledge of the research area

This position is reserved for KPU Students only

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