Advertize a job/Request a graduate assistantship contract

Advertize a job and have a graduate student contracted
Departments that do not have majors (e.g. Experimental & Foundation Studies, THAD, HPSS, LAS), departments that have only undergraduate majors (e.g. APPAR & FAV), and other offices on campus which wish to engage a graduate student in assistantship type work can post an assistantship job on the Careers Artworks site. Click here to read about the process of setting up the advertisement

When you interview the candidates and have chosen your graduate assistant

1)       Take down your job posting

2)       Enter “ Create Request” in the Workday search bar.
            a) Choose the Create Request Task.
            b) Type New Student Hire as the Request type & Click OK

3)       Enter Student First Name, Last name, RISD ID number and First Day of Work in the required fields. Add in the comment field a 500 character or less job description (can be excerpted from the job posting). Hit Submit.

If you have identified a student and the student is a current RISD employee, Student Employment will generate a contract in Workday using the information you have provided.>The student accepts the contract and is paid on the next available monthly payroll if they have completed their federal employment eligibility and tax paperwork and the job has started.

If you have identified a student and the student is NOT a current RISD employee, Student Employment will send step by step instructions to the student about the employment paperwork required. Student Employment will set the student up in Workday as a worker and meet with the student to complete the I-9 form> Student Employment generates a contract in Workday using the information you have provided.>The student accepts the contract and is paid on the next available monthly payroll if they have completed their federal employment eligibility and tax paperwork and the job has started.

What qualifies as an assistantship? Mentored professional training in these areas of expertise and which support department operations:

Types of assistantships:

Teaching (high level assisting a faculty member in a course or to prepare for a course): $20

Technical (requiring and developing technical skills for the profession): $20

Research (for academic departments NOT for faculty personal projects*): $22.5

Program (exhibitions, lecture series, accreditation, meeting and providing information to prospective students, other types of program enhancements): $22.50

What is NOT an assistantship? Work study type jobs, e.g. monitor, office help, clean up/maintenance, go-fer type teaching assistant