Student Employment

Student Employment

University Center and Event Services Student Employment

Welcome to The University Center and Event Services (UCES) team, the premier student employment program here at UCCS. We are excited to bring you aboard to an experience that will build your skills as a professional, challenge your worldview, and help you leverage your potential. We have identified several areas of focus to enhance your employment here at UCES, all student employees have the opportunity to learn and develop into these six competency areas: 

  1. Communication: Interact through various forums with peers, constitutions, and administration. 

  1. Problem Solving: Identify problems, analyze various approaches, reflect on ideas, and consider multiple perspectives. 

  1. Accountability and Ethical Behavior: Learning to incorporate values into decision-making, while acting with integrity. 

  1. Team Influence: Build healthy relationships based in respect, work collaboratively, and lead teams by empowering action in others. 

  1. Impact on others: Appreciate individual differences, manage resources in sustainable ways, and actively participate in community. 

  1. Managing emotions/stress effectively: Set and achieve goals, communicate effectively, maintain healthy balance with time, finances, physical health and personal interests.

It is important that you know that working for UCES can be challenging at times, to face those challenges you now have access to a bevy of support as you progress through this program and work towards attaining your degree. Other than a direct supervisor, student lead, and teammates, all of our department leadership and full-time staff are here to help you grow your professional experience. Our goal is to support you in challenging yourself to work hard and obtain the skills needed to be successful in your future profession. To build skills in the identified competency areas, student employees will be supported in four key ways: 

  1. Employment Role: By participating in job specific duties, students will build and strengthen their skills, knowledge, and teamwork in order to perform at a high level. 

  1. Reflection & Coaching: Through supervisor/peer coaching and regular reflection conversations, students will identify goals, develop relationships, and connect their employment to academic coursework and career goals. 

  1. Training: A variety of training resources work to develop transferable skills as it applies to their work, academic, and personal life. 

  1. Development Sessions: All students participate in monthly staff meetings that include relevant development topics to promote further growth of professional skills. 

 

UCES Student Positions

UCES Student Employment Positions
  • Building Manager

    Responsible for overseeing several student work groups and lead/assist in complex event set-ups, responds to emergencies, troubleshoots issues, light custodial duty, and securing the University Center/associated areas. The Building Manager functions as the shift leader and is responsible for the general operation/supervision of the University Center and associated areas during operating hours. 

  • Conferences Services Assistant Lead

    Responsible for Conference Service’s office administrative tasks as well as receiving external client inquiries relating to conferences held on campus through the Kx event software. This position also supports day-of conferences and events as needed. 

  • Conference Service Marketing Lead

    This position will serve as the primary marketing support liaison. The position will also support conference and event needs for external clients and members of the UC & Event Services team. Preference given to those with prior marketing/sales experience; work-study not required but desirable. 

  • Conference Services Office Support Assistant

    This position will serve as the primary scheduling liaison. The position will also support conference and event needs for external clients and members of the Conference Services team. 

  • Event Scheduling Lead

    This lead position is the first point of contact for on-campus clients reserving event spaces. Through a focus on the customer experience, this position manages event inquiries through phone calls, email, walk-ins, and online reservations. Responsibilities include updated student club contact information, following up with clients on missing event information, and creating event diagrams in Social Tables. 

  • Event Scheduling Assistant

    This position is the first point of contact for on-campus clients reserving event spaces. Through a focus on the customer experience, this position manages event inquiries through phone calls, email, walk-ins, and online reservations. Responsibilities include updated student club contact information, following up with clients on missing event information, and creating event diagrams in Social Tables. 

  • Information Desk Lead

    This position is responsible for the general operation of the Information Desk, and should assume a helpful, friendly, and responsible attitude at all times. Must be trustworthy and able to work with confidential information and cash handling responsibilities. Duties include scheduling info desk students for shifts, overseeing the scheduling, inputting the lost and found monthly and delivering items to DPS, training new info desk students on the desk, updating manuals, keeping oversight of inventory at the desk, and working on projects as assigned by supervisor. 

  • Information Desk Staff Member

    This position is responsible for the general operation of the Information Desk, and should assume a helpful, friendly, and responsible attitude at all times. Basic duties include answering the phone, handling money and sales transactions, dissemination of information to students, staff, faculty, and the general public. Must be trustworthy and able to work with confidential information. 

  • Production Operations Lead

    Promotion from Production Technician.  This position’s primary responsibilities are to schedule production assistants for daily and large event setups, finalize event setup details with Event Coordinators, and provide leadership and day-of support to production teammates and clients.  

  • Production Technician Lead

    Promotion from Production Technician. This leadership position mentors other Operations students through technical event setup, operation, and strike. Additional responsibilities include teching for VIP events, anticipating staffing needs, suggesting equipment procurement, and monitoring inventory of consumables.

  • Production Technician

    Promotion from Production Specialist. Responsible for event teching and leading large-event setups, operation, and strikes. Additional responsibilities include managing cable inventory, repairing equipment as needed and recording projector lamp hour usage.

  • Production Specialist

    Promotion from Production Assistant.  This position builds on the Production Assistant and also includes the responsibility of leading large setups, transporting equipment using the Box Truck, and providing leadership and training to Production Assistants.

  • Production Assistant

    This position works with teammates to provide outstanding customer service for events. Responsible for accurate event preparation through furniture and audiovisual equipment setup, operation, and strike. Also, this position has a customer service focus by connecting client devices to audiovisual systems in Auxiliary event spaces across campus as well as accommodating last-minute requests from clients when feasible.

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