Office of Student Life

Student Activities

Get Involved Panels

Now Hiring for Summer 2023

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Position Description

Calling all involved Buckeyes! Student Activities is seeking students who can share their involvement journey and experiences with new first year students during summer orientation. We are assembling a team of paid student staff to join the staff facilitators in leading the Get Involved sessions of orientation this summer from the end of May through the end of July. Get Involved Panelists directly support summer orientation for new first year students by sharing their expertise and personal journey as an involved Ohio State student during 1-2 presentation and panel sessions per week throughout orientation. Panelists will assist with presentation delivery and the overall hosting of the session from start to finish by distributing promo items and checking students in, contributing to the presentation and panel, and supporting the wrap-up process during each session.

Any undergraduate student, including graduating seniors, are encouraged to apply. This opportunity is ideal for someone who is looking for a fun way to earn a few extra hours of paid employment per week and is excited to help the next generation of Buckeyes get involved.  

This is a paid position at $10.50/hr

The is located in-person at the Columbus campus.


Schedule:

Students should expect to be available from 5:45-7:45 p.m. on at least one-two weeknights between Monday-Thursday during the following weeks:

May 30 - June 1 [None on Monday]
June 5 - June 8
June 12 - June 15
[None the week of June 19]
June 26 - June 29
[None the week of July 3]
July 10 - July 13
July 17 - July 20
July 24 - July 27

Pre-orientation training and onboarding will be offered in May - the schedule to be determined based on student availability. Each panelist will need to attend one onboarding meeting and 2-3 training/rehearsal sessions. All training and meetings are paid time.

On each scheduled shift, welcoming students and distributing promo items occurs from 5:45-6:30 p.m., the presentation and panel Q&A is from 6:30-7:30 p.m., and panelist dismissal will be at 7:45 p.m.

Flexible scheduling can be negotiated based on other summer commitments when scheduling. The number of sessions and weekly hours are entirely dependent on individual schedules and will be set in May when all team availability is collected.


Email Brooke Olson at olson.276@osu.edu with questions about this opportunity.