Do you want an Internship?

Residence Life offers a couple different internships to help with the department operations each year. These are the two internships available for Fall 2015. Read through both descriptions and if you are interested in spending time with either of these internships, send Jessica an email with a paragraph why you want this position.

Decisions will be made for positions to start Monday August 31.

Ripon College Residence Life RA Intern: Social Media and Image

Description: This RA Intern will work with the professional staff to supplement the image of the department of Residence Life on social media.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Post on the @RiponResLife twitter and Snapchat (reslife2015) handle for events and important info
• Use the Ripon ResLife Reader to alert the RA staff to trends and social media that can be helpful to the RA role
• Teach the pro staff the tools of social media that would be helpful in the ways they engage with students
• Investigate new ways for the department to connect with students and to use social media tools to work with the RA staff.
• Examine the RA page of the myRipon portal and identify areas for improvement
• Spend at least 2 hours/ week or as needed to keep things up-to-date
• You are responsible with knowing the passwords and accounts
• Will teach next intern how things run--next intern should be a junior (gives others that want to be part of it a chance)  
• MUST: need to have a snapchat to take pictures!
• Attend at least 1 all areas, 1 super six event, 2 RAD events and 3 RA events- doesn’t matter whos (taking pictures of events make us look good) can go to more if you would like
• No foul and/or degrading captions and/or tweets on either account!!!! (again need to look good)
• No inappropriate pictures (make sure they are relevant to ResLife--so don’t make ResLife snapchat your personal one)!!!
• Make sure to keep Jessica up-to-date on things- if she asks

Ripon College Residence Life RA Intern: Operations

Description: This RA Intern will work with the director of Residence Life to assist in the operations of the Residence Life department. This position will work 2-5 hours a week on various projects.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and collate applications/petitions related to Housing Plan Forms
• Organize Theme Floor and Apartment Applications
• At Fall and Spring breaks type and organize RA Programming in google doc
• Assist in filing budget documents
• Create and hang marketing for various Residence Life programs
• Maintain confidentiality as related to FERPA and student rights
• Work with Director on Room Lottery, Room Deposits
• Maintain the Residence LIfe bulletin board in Bartlett Hall (2ftx3ft)
• Other duties as assigned by the Director
• Solicit RA feedback through evaluations of different programs
• Organize and analyze data from RA feedback to improve Residence Life programming