Shadow Visit Assistant
Job Description
Shadow days are the perfect opportunity for the student to experience life as a Roger Williams University Student. The student will shadow a current student, attend a class in your academic area, and grab lunch in our dining hall.
As the Assistant, you will pair the student up with a current student who will be their host for the day. You will also be communicating with the Deans and Professors to schedule days and times of classes that the perspective or accepted student is interested in attending.
This role holds a tremendous amount of responsibility. The student would be using an array of interpersonal, academic and technology skills. The student will be working closely with the entire admissions team along with many facility members.
Year 1
Responsibility/Function
Year one you will work with the Assistant Director to learn the procedures involved with setting up and scheduling shadow visits. The procedures for setting up a scheduled day of shadowing will be explained and how to enter them into our system will be as well. You will eventually be setting them up on your own, communicating with student’s, their families and professors.
Year 2
Responsibility/Function
Year two you will work more independently having the knowledge from the previous year. You will continue to set up shadow visits for incoming accepted students who will follow an RWU student to class or classes and then to lunch. The incoming student may also have other requests such as meeting with a professor or coach.
Year 3
Responsibility/Function
Year three you will continue to work independently scheduling shadow tours. We will work collaboratively to focus on areas of improvement to streamline the program. You will also work with us to find and help train your predecessor.
*Students are prohibited from driving during work-study employment with the limited exception of authorized work-study driver positions.