Student Assistant Research

Kwantlen Polytechnique University; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in the United Kingdom seeks a Student Assistant to support faculty in research projects. Responsibilities include conducting research, editing academic articles, managing information files, and assisting in organizing events. The ideal candidate should be detail-oriented with strong interpersonal and research skills. This role is exclusively for students, offering wages based on educational credits. Join us to contribute to impactful academic initiatives.

Qualifications

• Ability to follow directions with minimal supervision.
• Strong attention to detail and quality deliverables required.
• Good interpersonal and written skills necessary.

Responsibilities

• Assist faculty with various research projects.
• Conduct library and online research.
• Prepare summary reports and presentations.

Skills

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Research skills

Organization skills

MS Office proficiency

Job description

Overview

The student assistant primarily engaged in research with secondary materials will assist faculty or members of the Dean’s office with various research projects.

Responsibilities

• Research, editing, and typing of academic journal articles and books
• Develop and maintain files on issues related to the current project
• Do library and online research as required (e.g. review current literature, statistics, legal research, academic journals, surveys, online databases, etc.)
• Assist with photocopying, typing, filing, and overall organization of these materials
• Work on a variety of initiatives that the Faculty needs assistance with from internal marketing to students, student engagement, course programming
• Communicate with faculty, peers, relevant internal and external partners as directed by faculty
• Research, collate, and assist in planning relevant events and identify ways to connect students to alumni and industry as needed
• Create tracking systems and processes to ensure systems are in place to maintain strategies into the future
• Research, compile data and write papers to be incorporated into proposals a variety of Faculty purposes
• Prepare summary reports including headings and information which can be subsequently used to draft briefing notes or craft power point presentations

Qualifications

• Ability to follow directions with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated strong attention to detail and quality deliverables
• Ability to use MS Office tools, including databases for tracking or qualitative and/or quantitative studies
• Good interpersonal, organization, research and written skills
• A professional and positive attitude
• Knowledge of the research area

This position is reserved for KPU Students only.

Salary Information

Student Assistants are paid as per the following:

• Less than one year of post-secondary (less than 30 credits) – BC Minimum Wage
• One year of post-secondary (30-60 credits) – BC Minimum Wage plus 8%
• With a post-secondary diploma or degree – BC Minimum Wage plus 21%