March 1, 2022

Graduate Assistantship: Women & Gender Office

The Women and Gender Office at East Carolina University strives to cultivate a supportive, safe, and affirming environment for women, all genders, and gender equity allies in the ECU community. As a new office on campus within Intercultural Affairs, the WGO approaches inclusive programming through guiding values of advocacy, celebration, and education.

This position, awarded to a registered graduate student in good standing with the University, will work within the Women and Gender Office to provide administrative and advisory support to signature educational programs. The Graduate Assistantship is based upon a flexible weekly and weekend schedule of approximately 20 hours per week during the academic semesters; the GA expected to maintain a GPA of at least 3.0. The Associate Director of the WGO is the Graduate Assistant’s immediate supervisor.

As a result of this Graduate Assistant position, student will have the opportunity to gain the following core competencies based on the ACPA/NASPA Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Practitioners:

  • Advising and Helping: Addresses the knowledge, skills and attitudes related to providing counseling and advising support, direction, feedback, critique, referral, and guidance to individuals and groups.
  • Personal Foundations: Involves the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to maintain emotional, physical, social, environmental, relational, spiritual, and intellectual wellness; be self-directed and self-reflective; maintain excellence and integrity in work; be comfortable with ambiguity; be aware of one’s own areas of strength and growth; have a passion for work; remain curious.
  • Leadership: Addresses the knowledge, skills and attitudes required of a leader, whether it be a positional leader or a member of the staff, in both an individual capacity and within a process of how individuals work together effectively to envision, plan, effect change in organizations, and respond to internal and external constituencies and issues.
  • Social Justice and Inclusion: Includes the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to create learning environments that foster equitable participation of all groups and seeks to address issues of oppression, privilege, and power.

For more information, please view the WGO Graduate Assistantship Position (PDF).

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