Student Staff Application

Please fill out the top two required sections as thoroughly as possible before moving on to specific positions.

You will fill out the application for one, two, or three positions. You do not have to apply for any more than one position, but you do have the option to present your answers for two other positions in case you do not get your first choice. It is highly encouraged to apply to at least two, if not three positions.

Use the dropdowns to indicate which application is the first, second, and third choice

Student Staff Applications Due - September 11, 2024

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Questions for All Applicants

Please answer the following three questions before moving on to answer your first choice of student staff position questions.

How can the PLC student staff make the entire PLC community more inclusive for every member of the program? What steps need to be initiated to do so? *

What character strengths do you utilize most to succeed in your work, and what areas do you desire to improve? What will you contribute to the staff, and how can a staff position help you improve? *

What can the student staff do to create equitable access to all of the program's benefits for all PLC students? *

First Choice of Staff Position *

Please choose and apply for your FIRST CHOICE of staff positions

Second Choice of Staff Position *

Please choose and apply for your SECOND CHOICE of staff positions. If you have no second choice, choose None.

Third Choice of Staff Position *

Please choose and apply for your THIRD CHOICE of staff positions. If you have no third choice, choose None.

CATALYST TEAM - Director of Student Staff

The Director focuses on crafting a cohesive vision and healthy, positive culture for all of Student Staff. By collaborating with Professional Staff, the Chief of Staff, the Board, and the Team Leads, the Director helps ensure that every staff member feels supported and successful. The Director is also responsible for planning and running Student Staff Training and the weekly Student Staff meetings. This involves creating a year-long curriculum plan, inviting in relevant guest speakers, and setting individual, team, and Staff level goals. The Director should serve as an intermediary between Pro-Staff and Student Staff, ensuring effective communication and continuous program improvement in all aspects. The Director will also serve as the head of the Catalyst team, and collaborate with Board Seats to establish and maintain a beneficial relationship with the Board of Advocates. The Director role is flexible and varies every year based on the individual. Most importantly, the Director is incredibly invested in the personal, professional, and leadership development of all Staff members. A strong sense of community, appreciation for the strengths and weaknesses of PLC, creativity, and organizational skills are critical for this role. Pay Rate - $5,000/Academic Year

Submit a Letter of Interest to be the Director of Student Staff

If you would like to be considered for the Director of Student Staff, please submit a formal letter of interest conveying your qualifications, your desire to hold the position, and the leadership development curriculum you plan to implement over the academic year 2024-2025.
Files must be less than 2 MB.
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CATALYST TEAM - Chief of Staff Application

As the Chief of Staff, you will serve as a contact point and bridge between the Director of Student Staff, the student staff, and the professional staff. The Chief of Staff works in two areas: 1) Work with and gauge the pulse of the student staff to provide resources, support, and feedback as needed, and 2) Help the Director of Student Staff plan, develop, and execute the goals of each semester. Additionally, the Chief of Staff is the lead for all team leads. The Chief of Staff drafts the agenda of Team Lead meetings and runs it by the Director and each team lead before meetings. Additionally, the Chief of Staff facilitates the weekly team lead meeting by maintaining a schedule, and a topic agenda, and assigns a note-taker. Notes and meeting minutes will be reviewed and cleaned by the Chief of Staff. These notes will be available along with all other student staff documents in the student staff shared folders. The Chief of Staff will help facilitate communication and activities among the larger Catalyst team. Primarily this aspect will be working with the AMP/Board Seats. The role itself is very flexible and will continue to be defined by the needs of the student staff and the Director of Student Staff. Pay Rate = $4,000/Academic Year

Why are you interested in this position on student staff? What do you hope to learn from this experience?

How do you plan to measure progress, both in personal leadership and PLC's development, in this position?

What is your personal leadership or management style and how do you plan to integrate it as Chief-of-Staff?

Explain the arc (trajectory) of a curriculum in leadership development that you would like to write and implement with the Director of Student Staff?

Describe a year-long leadership development curriculum with themes, topics, lessons, etc.

CONNECTIONS TEAM - AMP Coordinator/Board Seat

The AMP/Board Seats act in two different capacities, both as liaisons between PLC alumni and PLC students. As student board seat, this student attends all PLC board meetings (3-4/year), provides the student perspective to board discussions, and brings important information from the meetings back to the student body. As the AMP coordinator, this student plans and implements Industry Nights as well as the Alumni Match Program (AMP). AMP is a new matching initiative, matching junior and senior PLCers with board members and other alumni, in an effort to help students start a professional network, get professional and life advice from those that have come before them, and gain beneficial contacts and connections as they move toward graduation. Pay Rate = $3,000/Academic Year

As a PLC Board student seat, you will be required to attend and participate in all PLC Board meetings. Please explain your excitement, anxiety, anticipation for this opportunity

The new Alumni Match Program needs to planned for a full academic year. How do you plan to implement this program for next year?

Describe timelines, events, deadlines, activities, etc. that you want to implement in the AMP process next year.

Are you participating in AMP now? If not, why not? If yes, what has been the largest benefit so far?

ACADEMIC TEAM - CA Applications

First-Year, Multi-Level, Complex Leadership, and Global Class Advisors (CAs) have varying roles, but every CA will work directly with the professor to shape and implement curriculum, engage with students/peers, and contribute to the larger student staff conversations. The most significant role of the CA is to create relationships - with students, other CAs, and instructors. Being a CA is about listening to each student, putting students鈥� needs over yours, collaborating with other CAs, providing feedback and grading assignments, and most of all, ensuring that your students and you are having fun and learning from each other! All CAs, regardless of course assignment will have opportunities to work with Dr. Shepherd Macklin as the Academic Director and the student staff Assistant Academic Director for feedback, coaching, teaching observations, and general professional development. Please answer these questions to apply for all of the academic CA positions. Answer the questions that apply to all CA's and to the positions (course) you are applying to specifically. Pay Rates: Academic Advisor - $3,000/Year First Year CA - $4,000/Academic Year Multi CA - $2000/Semester Global CA - $1,500/Semester

For which CA position are you applying?

Choose which CA position you are applying to:

First-Year CA (year-long )

First-Year CA (fall semester only)

First-Year CA (spring semester only)

Multi-Level Issues CA (fall semester)

Global Issues in Leadership - 3810 CA (fall semester)

Global Inquiry for the 21st Century - 3800 (spring)

In what area would you like to grow while being a CA? On what areas would you like help, feedback, evaluation through this position?

What character strengths do you bring to the CA position and how will you capitalize on these to help your students?

Through your CA role and actions, how will you ensure an elevated level of diversity, equity and inclusivity in the PLC community

For First-Year CA applicants:

Please send a letter of interest to Dr. JulieMarie Shepherd Macklin (juliemarie.shepherdmacklin@colorado.edu) that expresses why you want the position, and how the position will impact your professional and leadership development. Please also include a writing sample in which you create or design a new PLC first year tradition or activity for your recitation group, a peer recommendation letter from a peer who has worked with you on a group academic or service project evaluating you as a team member, and UPLOAD your resume here.
Files must be less than 5 MB.
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For Multi-Level Issues CA applicants:

Please send a letter of interest to Dr. JulieMarie Shepherd Macklin (juliemarie.shepherdmacklin@colorado.edu) that expresses why you want the position, and how the position will impact your professional and leadership development. Please also include a copy of a graded paper completed for a college course here at CU, or a link to a copy of your MULTI portfolio, a peer recommendation letter from a peer who has worked with you on a group academic or service project evaluating you as a team member, and UPLOAD your resume here..
Files must be less than 5 MB.
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For Global Issues 3810 CA (fall) applicants:

Send a letter of interest to JulieMarie Shepherd Macklin (juliemarie.shepherdmacklin@colorado.edu) that includes why you want the position, the unique contribution you will make to the course and student staff team, and how the position will impact your professional and leadership development. Please UPLOAD your resume here.
Files must be less than 5 MB.
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For Global Inquiry 3800 CA (spring) applicants:

Please send a letter of interest to Dr. JulieMarie Shepherd Macklin (juliemarie.shepherdmacklin@colorado.edu) that expresses why you want the position, any relevant international experiences you have had (study abroad, service learning, exchange trips, etc.), and how the position will impact your professional and leadership development. Please also include a copy of a graded paper completed for a college course here at CU, a peer recommendation letter from a peer who has worked with you on a group academic or service project evaluating you as a team member, and UPLOAD your resume here.
Files must be less than 5 MB.
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ACADEMIC TEAM - Writing Coach Application

The PLC Writing Coach serves the entire PLC community. The Writing Coach can set office hours that accommodate their school schedule but must fulfill the 6-8 in-person contact hours per week requirement. The other required hours are met by attendance at the Monday student staff meeting as well as attendance and participation in the academic team meeting each week. The Writing Coach can establish their way to make and track appointments as well as follow-up appointments. In conjunction with the flow of the semester, the Writing Coach will experience times of little work, as well as times of high demand. The Writing Coach must be good at time management and balancing their own coursework with the work it takes to help others improve their writing. Pay Rate - $2,500/Academic Year

Explain your writing process: How do you typically approach a prompt? What steps, if any, do you take to plan your writing? How do you determine whether your writing is complete?

Please describe how you provide feedback to your peers constructively. What is important to you when giving advice, feedback, help? What methods do you use to best convey your messages?

Write about a time you taught someone something: What did you teach them? How did it go? Was it easy? Hard? Did you enjoy it? Did they enjoy it?

How do you define good or great writing? Or, what must be present in a piece of writing to make it great?

A writing coach should have general knowledge of writing in various disciplines. They should know basically how to write a lab report, cover letter, resume, philosophy paper, history paper, literary analysis, etc.

Please upload a sample of the following documents 1) memo, 2) research paper, 3) lab report, 4) cover letter, 5) resume, 6) analysis, and 7) a piece you are particularly proud of from any discipline. If you cannot upload all documents on this application please email additional documents to Dr. Shepherd Macklin when you submit your application. (Juliemarie.shepherdmacklin@colorado.edu)
Files must be less than 5 MB.
Allowed file types: pdf doc docx.

Additional writing sample upload

Files must be less than 2 MB.
Allowed file types: pdf doc docx.

CORPS TEAM - CORPS Member Application

CORPS team (Community Outreach and Recruitment of Prospective Scholars) is the public face of PLC and is in charge of PLC鈥檚 recruiting and selection operations. Team members have many responsibilities that evolve throughout the year and recruiting cycle. These include everything from high school outreach to application reading and ultimately interviewing and selecting students. CORPS team works closely with pro staff to promote PLC as an organization and to craft dynamic cohorts of students with extraordinary leadership potential.

For what about the CORPS position are you most excited and how will you uniquely contribute to the team?

Please explain why you want to be a part of the CORPS team and what you believe you can uniquely contribute to the success of the team?

Do you do your best work alone or as part of a team? Do you enjoy work partners or teams? If so, why? If not, why not?

How can CORPS make our outreach, application, and interview process more inclusive?

How can PLC make hearing from, applying to, and interviewing for PLC a more inclusive process for high school students who are racially diverse, gender non-binary, LGBTQ, experience physical disabilities, etc.?

What outside organizations that work with high school students would you like to develop a relationship with on behalf of PLC?

CORPS members engage in building relationships with outside organizations that parallel the leadership development mission of PLC. Did you participate in any of these organizations in high school? Do you have any favorite organizations? Are there any organizations that you want to bring into the PLC orbit?

What PLC values are most important to you and why? How do you display these values through your own actions? What more can you do?

Please use the PLC values listed on the landing page of the PLC website

CONNECTIONS TEAM - Alumni Data/Alumni Newsletter Coordinator

The Alumni data/Alumni newsletter Coordinator is responsible for updating alumni data to build strong and intentional relationships between current PLC students and the vast alumni network. This staff member reaches out to alumni and interviews them biweekly through Zoom, email, or in-person meetings. Quarterly, the alumni liaison writes the alumni newsletter, which keeps alumni informed about the current state of PLC and updates from fellow alums. It features students, staff members, PLC clubs, and alumni. The alumni liaison fosters connections between current students and alumni by sharing offered opportunities and introducing those with similar interests. A new responsibility this year will be working with the data project admin to update the alumni section of the PLC website. This role is HIGHLY collaborative. You must be willing and available to work with other members of the PLC student staff to achieve initiatives such as Industry Nights, AMP, etc. Please note, that this role is to curate the experiences of PLC alumni and create personal connections, not fundraise.

Why do you believe connecting current PLCers to alumni is important?

Explain at least two ideas you have to energize the PLC Alumni Newsletter

You may not know what is included in the alumni newsletter. We do alumni highlights, program updates, student highlights, event dates. What are two NEW ideas you have to energize the newsletter and increase readership.

We are working to update our alumni data. Please share any ideas that could aid in effectively updating these records.

COMMUNICATION TEAM - PLC Data Project/Website Admin

The PLC Data Project/Website Administrator takes on several of the technical aspects of the PLC program. The primary responsibilities of this role include maintaining and updating the PLC website, as well as coordinating the Data Project during the spring semester. The PLC website is hosted through the CU Web Express platform. Updating and maintaining the website does not require a technical background, but it is helpful to have experience working with website administration. Responsibilities may include adding new content as needed, updating pages to be accurate and timely, and making sure the website expresses professionalism to visitors. The PLC Data Project is an annual survey sent out to every student in the program. The survey asks about program requirements, attitudes towards PLC, and other data that can be helpful for students and professional staff. This survey is maintained through Qualtrics. Responsibilities include adding, modifying, and removing questions to fit the needs of the project, analyzing the resultant data, reporting results to the board and professional staff, and managing a team to source other statistics about PLC. In addition to these projects, the PLC data and website staff member may also be responsible for working with the MyPLC app and website and assisting students with technical difficulties.

If selected for this position, what are three questions you might add to the PLC Data Project to learn more about the program?

Take a look at the PLC website (colorado.edu/plc). What would you add or modify? Why?

COMMUNITY TEAM - Class Coordinators Application

All Class Coordinators have four primary roles among others: 1) Sending updates/emails/GroupMe to their cohort every week, 2) planning and running Senior Retreat and First-Year Orientation, 3) planning the other PLC annual events with other coordinators - Fall Fest, Fall Gratitude Dinner, Talent Show, PLC Prom, Senior Send-Off, 4) planning informal cohort get-togethers that increase bonding and connectivity in and between the cohorts - intramural teams, Fiske Planetarium shows, dinners, etc. You must be a master of organization and a master of timely communication to be a class coordinator. You will need to meet with the class coordinator team weekly, attend the student staff meeting on Tuesday mornings, and meet with the Community Team each week. You will have a heavy workload - both in terms of tactics and time investment. Pay Rate = $3,000/Academic Year

For which Class Coordinator position are you applying?

Sophomore Class Coordinator

Junior Class Coordinator

Senior Class Coordinator

We are committed to fewer, quality events. How do you plan to work smarter, not harder as a class coordinator?

How can you make the most of other campus offerings for your PLC cohort?

What part of the PLC Community do you value most? How do you express this and demonstrate in your own actions?

As Class Coordinator, what would you do to increase inclusivity in PLC? How do you increase the sense of belonging for all PLC members?

What will you consider and include in your planning to increase the feeling of belonging among your PLC peers?

What leadership and personal values do you think are required of a class coordinator in order to be able to spark or inspire their cohort?

What personal and leadership values do you possess and employ that make you the strongest candidate for this position?

COMMUNITY TEAM - Bridge Team Application

The Bridge Team works to 鈥渂ridge鈥� the gap between the wider PLC student community and the day-to-day operations of PLC. This includes facilitating conversations and building understanding between PLC students and the student staff, professional staff & faculty, and other CU leadership. The Bridge Team is also tasked with "bridging" the divide that exists between PLC and other campus leadership organizations, attempting to shed the elitist and exclusive reputation gained by the program over the past 50 years. Lastly, the Bridge Team works to ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusive measures are employed to increase the sense of belonging among PLCers. Pay Rate = $3,000/Academic Year

We have established with the Transfer Student group on campus to help them integrate into CU Boulder life. What are two ideas you have to involve transfer students with PLC programming to help this effort?

Which student groups on campus should the Bridge team endeavor to build lasting partnerships? Why?

Please describe any work you have done previously promoting good mental health practices amongst your peers.

What unique skills, experiences, and character traits make you the best candiate for the Bridge team?

The Bridge team members are the "Ambassadors of Belonging" on the student staff. How would you like to increase belonging among the PLC community?

How do you want to and will you work to increase the sense of belonging among the PLC community?

COMMUNITY TEAM - PLC Squared Coordinator Application

The PLC Squared Coordinator surveys matches students, and kicks off the PLC2 program in September while maintaining check-ins and offering assistance to PLC students involved in the program throughout the year. This position is responsible for keeping the momentum and energy going for PLC peer mentor pairs all year by assigning speed dating, Instagram challenges, and events that the pairs can attend together. This position works within the Community Team on the PLC student staff. The Mentor Programs Coordinator must attend weekly student staff meetings and weekly Community Team meetings as well as host 1-2 office hours during the week.

Are you currently participating in any of PLC's peer mentor program? If yes, what is the biggest benefit to having a peer mentor? If not, why not?

List at least three ideas and how to implement them to increase the engagement in PLC sqaured throughout the academic year?

COMMUNITY TEAM - TLC for PLC Application

The TLC for PLC Coordinators are the mental health advocates for the PLC community of students. This position is the link between PLC students and mental health resources on campus, off-campus, online, etc. This person also advocates and advances the mental health of the PLC community by providing tips, skill-building, one-on-one meet-ups, and informal community activities. This team has a passion for mental health advocacy, research, partnerships, and collaboration. Though TLC for PLC plans small, intimate, events such as meditations, workshops, game nights, crafts nights, book clubs, etc. They also collaborate with almost every other PLC student staff team to bring mental health practices to students. Pay Rate = $2,500/Academic Year

Why are you interested in being the TLC for PLC Coordinator?

What experience do you have with mental health promotion among your peers?

Please describe any work you have done previously promoting good mental health practices amongst your peers.

Describe two ways in which you plan to promote good mental health practices to the students in PLC

Please describe your plan to reach your peers directly, one-on-one, small groups, etc. in a personal manner next academic year

CHANGE TEAM - Deep Dive Coordinator Application

Your job is to intentionally create Deep Dives for PLCers to expose your peers to meaningful topics, important people doing the work, and possibilities for solutions to systemic social issues. Deep Dives are informative and interactive, one or two-day-long events tailored to inspire exploration and leadership within issues with many social intersectionalities in Colorado. A lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion can be found in all industries, but people tend to only focus on the industry as a stand-alone instead of considering everything that it impacts and is impacted by. By focusing on the intersections of social issues, we as developing leaders, can better understand the current problems and future solutions. Furthermore, Deep Dives serve to align the academics, community, experiential education and service pillars of PLC - aligning the program. Pay Rate = $3,250/Academic Year

Choose at least two social issues that have multiple intersectionalities that you would like to integrate into the Deep Dive curriculum, and why.

You must demand accountability from your PLC peers in this position. Please explain your strategy around increasing the accountability of your PLC peers.

Please explain how did handled a situation when there was no clear outcome, and you were forced to improvise a course of action?

How will you make Deep Dives more diverse, equitable, and inclusive for PLC students? Please be specific about plans you have, actions you plan to take, strategies, etc.

CHANGE TEAM - Service Coordinator Application

The Service Coordinators are in charge of mobilizing the PLC community around our program pillar of service. The Service Coordinators need to be a masters of communication, delegation, trust in their peers, gauging engagement, and pivoting when needed. This team communicates with the VRC and community partners to arrange semester, year-long, or one-time volunteer activities for PLC students. Additionally, the Service Coordinators lead the Service Cohort and oversee the Chance for Change service grant competition. This position can be very demanding and calls for a good delegator. This team fulfills their weekly hours by attending and participating in the weekly PLC student staff meeting, as well as the Change Team weekly meeting.

Why is service important to you personally? Why is service important to you as a PLC student? Is there a difference, why or why not?

The PLC Service Cohort will engage in longer term projects. What areas of service would you like to involve the PLC service cohort?

What ideas do you have to increase program involvement in the Chance for Change service grant competition?

Chance for Change has seen a decline in participation in a very short time. Improvements and/or changes must be made to the way we do Chance for Change. What are your ideas to make it more popular? Should we keep doing it? If yes, why yes? If not, why not?

Describe at least two ways in which you will increase diversity in service events and offerings

CHANGE TEAM - LEAD Colorado Mentor Application

LEAD Colorado is an independent program through the YMCA of Northern Colorado, in partnership with PLC, dedicated to fostering leadership development in Colorado high schools. As a LEAD Colorado Mentor, you will help high school students develop and discover their values and leadership abilities. Working with the LEAD Colorado program, you will facilitate group discussions and debates surrounding leadership topics, advising students in a range of areas. You will design and execute monthly meetings for your mentees with others on the LEAD Colorado team. While you will interact with and be an integral part of the PLC student staff, your position as a LEAD Colorado mentor will be unique in that much of your work is external to the PLC program.

What impacts have positive mentoring partnerships had on your life to date?

How will you support high school students who do not yet know what type of leader they are?

What are your ideas for building community among a group of young leaders?

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