Work at Student Organizations and Activities Become a Member of the Team

Position Type: Undergraduate Student Employee

Position Description: Involvement Advisors help students get involved, by meeting with them 1:1 to help them connect to student organizations and events on campus. Involvement Advisors also help raise awareness about why getting involved makes a difference, through events, tabling, and presentations.

This is an opportunity for YOU to help others find their connection and sense of belonging at UK! Join our office in helping others get #WildlyInvolved!

Minimum Qualifications:

• Passionate about the University of Kentucky and helping your fellow Wildcats become involved on campus supporting your fellow Wildcats create a community of belonging.
• Currently enrolled as a University of Kentucky Undergraduate in good standing
• Cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher

Pay Rate: Starts at $12.00 per hour

Why work for SOA? Flexible schedule, work on-campus, build community, enhance your resume, network with professional staff and faculty, and more!

Position Type: Undergraduate Student Employee

Position Description: Major Campus Programming Assistants provide event management and execution for events in the Gatton Student Center. These events range from movie nights in Worsham Cinema to bingo in the Cats Den to large-scale programs like Catapalooza and Labor Stay Weekend.

MCP Assistants provide event setup, check-in of attendees, facilitation and event hosting! This is a great experience for those interested in marketing, hospitality or event planning!

Minimum Qualifications:

• Passionate about supporting a variety of events that create community on campus and supporting your fellow Wildcats.
• Currently enrolled as a University of Kentucky Undergraduate in good standing.
• Cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher.

Pay Rate: Starts at $12.00 per hour

Why work for SOA? Flexible schedule, work on-campus, build community, enhance your resume, network with professional staff and faculty, and more!

Position Type: Undergraduate Student Employee

Position Description: SOA offers graphic design services to all registered student organizations as well as the SOA office as needed. These services may range from logo or tshirt design to fliers and social media graphics.

The Graphic Design Assistant should be able to navigate Canva, with the willingness to learn Adobe products.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Passionate about using your design skills to create compelling media used around campus for social media, digital signage and BBNvolved.
• Currently enrolled as a University of Kentucky Undergraduate in good standing.
• Cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher.

Pay Rate: Starts at $12.00 per hour

Why work for SOA? Flexible schedule, work on-campus, build community, enhance your resume, network with professional staff and faculty and more!

Position Type: Undergraduate Student Employee

Position Description: The Student Involvement Box Office offers ticketing and event support for registered student organizations as well as campus clients and offices. Student Assistants may sell tickets, collect fundraising deposits for DanceBlue, and provide customer service at the Box Office in the Gatton Student Center.

Student Assistants may provide administrative support including:

Answering phones

Processing payments and accounting for all daily activity

Minimum Qualifications:

• Motivated to support student events with ticketing services and gain customer service experience
• Currently enrolled as a University of Kentucky Undergraduate in good standing
• Cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher

Pay Rate: Starts at $12.00 per hour

Why work for SOA? Flexible schedule, work on-campus, build community, enhance your resume, network with professional staff and faculty, and more!

All open positions for Student Organizations & Activities will be posted on https://ukjobs.uky.edu/

You can do a key word search for "Student Organizations & Activities" or narrow your search under Department Name by going to "1B340: Student Organizations & Activities".

If you are on UKJobs and searching for "Student Organizations & Activities" but get no results, unfortunately there are no open positions at the time.  Please check back soon as our hiring needs may change throughout the semester.

Generally, there are 2 main hiring seasons students interested in working for SOA should be aware of. Often SOA will open job postings in October to start Spring Term and will open job postings in March to start in Fall Term. 

If you have questions about a specific student position please contact us at studentorgs@uky.edu. 

Not at all!  Our student employment opportunities are open to any major from any college.  The minimum qualification for all positions is a 2.5 cumulative GPA.

Some positions do have additional skillsets, like Graphic Design.  Please refer to the Work at SOA page for a complete description of all job requirements for each position.

A big benefit of working at SOA is we will work around your academic schedule!  Student employees are asked to submit availability prior to the start of each term and will get a weekly schedule. Shifts may change from week to week due to the nature of events we support, but you can build working at SOA into your schedule much like any class or internship.

All SOA student employees are part-time, with many students working 5-10 hours per week. 

For general questions regarding working with SOA please email us at: studentorgs@uky.edu. 

For position specific questions please refer questions to the following team members:

• Involvement Advisor: ellyce.jernigan@uky.edu
• Major Campus Programming Event Manager: charles.delp@uky.edu
• SOA Graphic Design Assistant: charles.delp@uky.edu
• Student Involvement Box Office Student Assistant: tricia.hensley@uky.edu