I’m currently looking for a GAA to help with an Open Educational Resource project. Would you be able to help me get the word out?
Thanks so much!
Lindsay
Lindsay Cuff (She/Her/Hers)
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Land & Food Systems and Forestry
The University of British Columbia | Musqueam Traditional Territory
2205 East Mall | Vancouver BC | V6T 1Z4 Canada
Position Title: Graduate Academic Assistant (GAA)
Faculty: Land & Food Systems/Forestry
Proposed Start Date: February 1st, 2022
Term of Employment: This position is for 91 hours (approximately 7 hour/week for 13 weeks with flexibility on start and end date and number of hours per week to accommodate student schedules and exams)
Rate of Pay: $33.14 + statutory pay
Job Description:
As part of the project team, the Graduate Academic Assistant (GAA) will support the creation of a new Open Educational Resource. Writing Place: A Scholarly Communication Open Textbook for Forestry and Land & Food Systems will draw on and adapt existing open educational resources, as well as create new content to support a common vision across course sections between two faculties. This Open Text will provide carefully scaffolded discipline-specific content, interactive multimedia, student writing examples, and engagement/extension activities relevant to the disciplines of Land & Food Systems and Forestry and the communities these disciplines have partnerships with. This text will equip students with the skills they need to meaningfully contribute to scholarly conversations in their disciplines, as well as support them in considering how these skills might be used to effectively communicate with Indigenous and settler communities beyond the university.
Job Duties:
- Find, adapt and improve existing images, interactive multimedia, student writing examples and engagement/extension activities
- Co-design and create new interactive multimedia content (e.g. videos, LaTeX, glossary and H5P) and student extension activities
- Source and create attributions for images and media content
- Compose alt text and other accessibility features
- Assist with licensing, testing and final proofreading
- Participate in weekly team meetings with the project team
Desired Qualifications:
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team
- Effective at problem solving and troubleshooting to efficiently advance a project
- Ability to communicate at a high level with all team members on the progress and anticipated completion of components of the project
- Mastery of the English language—fluency in professional, academic and popular uses of English
- Experience in digital storytelling
- Understanding of design principles and practices
- Experience working with content management platforms, specifically WordPress or Pressbooks is an asset
Supervision:
- The GAA will be directly supervised by Lindsay Cuff, Assistant Professor of Teaching in LFS/Forestry
- The GAA will take part in regular weekly meetings with the project team
Training and Mentorship Provided:
The OER project team, including the GAA, will receive training from the UBC Open Education Team in the following:
- Creative Commons and copyright
- Pressbooks and H5P integration
- Identifying attribution details of OERs and appropriate attribution style
- Using the attribution tracking sheets for the project
- Style guide application
To apply, please send a cover letter and CV to Lindsay Cuff (lindsay.cuff@ubc.ca). Applications will be considered until the position is filled.
