Student Assistant 1 -Stone Lab

Ohio State University; North Carolina; On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Ohio State University – FAES | Center for Lake Erie Area Research invites applications for a Student Assistant 1 at Stone Lab. The role supports administrative tasks, outreach materials, and basic project assistance in a lab setting on campus.

Responsibilities include creating promotional content, preparing educational text, assisting with publications, and maintaining media lists and outreach materials while upholding OSU values and integrity.

Qualifications

• Duties include administrative tasks, assisting in a research environment, and supporting academic programs.
• Requires excellent customer service and strong organizational skills.
• Represent OSU with integrity and align with university values.

Responsibilities

• Conducts interviews and researches subject for article development as sole author or in cooperation with other authors for website
• Helps develop promotional emails and flyers for Stone Lab course student recruitment
• Creates educational text for display panels for the public on topics like harmful algal blooms, pharmaceuticals in the water, wetlands and aquaculture
• Develops news releases on program research and events for public awareness and promotion
• Assists in the development of publication graphics and layout with graphic designer
• Helps to write short scripts to be used for YouTube researcher summaries
• Develops brochures, fact sheets and posters covering outreach programming
• Creates social media posts on program research and outreach
• Updates media lists and publication database

Skills

Customer service

Organizational skills

Communication

Job description

Job Title

Student Assistant 1 -Stone Lab

Department

FAES | Center for Lake Erie Area Research-JM

Responsibilities are basic and routine in nature. This may include performing administrative duties in an office, assisting in a research laboratory, aid faculty/staff in supporting academic programs or patient care. Duties will be clear and direct. The Student Assistant will require excellent customer service and strong organizational skills and will represent the department and the university with the highest degree of integrity applying OSU mission and shared values.

Responsibilities

• Conducts interviews and researches subject for article development as sole author or in cooperation with other authors for website
• Helps develop promotional emails and flyers for Stone Lab course student recruitment
• Creates educational text for display panels for the public on topics like harmful algal blooms, pharmaceuticals in the water, wetlands and aquaculture
• Develops news releases on program research and events for public awareness and promotion
• Assists in the development of publication graphics and layout with graphic designer
• Helps to write short scripts to be used for YouTube researcher summaries
• Develops brochures, fact sheets and posters covering outreach programming
• Creates social media posts on program research and outreach
• Updates media lists and publication database

Additional Information

Location: Heffner Wetland Research and Education (0222)

Position Type: Temporary (Fixed Term)

Scheduled Hours: 10

Shift: First Shift

Final candidates are subject to successful completion of a background check. A drug screen or physical may be required during the post offer process.

The university is an equal opportunity employer, including veterans and disability.

As required by Ohio Revised Code section 3345.0216 , Ohio State will: educate students by means of free, open and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth; equip students with the opportunity to develop intellectual skills to reach their own, informed conclusions; not require, favor, disfavor or prohibit speech or lawful assembly; create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth and tolerates differences in opinion; treat all faculty, staff and students as individuals, hold them to equal standards and provide equality of opportunity with regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.