Many students obtain part-time academic student employee (ASE) positions such as Special Readers (SR), Teaching Assistants (TA) or Graduate Student Researchers (GSR) with faculty either at FSPH or anywhere on-campus. Students who maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better and are appointed to academic apprentice positions for at least 25% time (10 hours a week) while enrolled in a minimum of 12 units are eligible to receive fee remissions. Students may also work as staff (administrative/clerical work as opposed to research and teaching), however staff positions do not incur fee remissions.
Full time graduate students cannot be employed over 50% time as an ASE, staff, or combined, at UCLA without an approved exception request. An overview of requirements and benefits for academic student employment is available for download.
FSPH Career & Professional Development Office provides individual career counseling, on-campus recruiting, workshops, employer presentations, mock interviews, career fairs, and online job postings.
The FSPH Director of the Career & Professional Development Office, Kristy Sherrer, has created Slack channels for jobs, internships, and CPDO workshops and events.
Job postings or notices for applications are generally very rare as faculty/instructors usually have a student, doctoral or masters, in mind who they want to approach and offer a position. These students are someone who they know through class or have an established professional relationship. In addition, not all courses would be eligible to hire a TA or Special Reader. It is highly encouraged that students contact faculty directly to establish a professional relationship with them, and inquire about any employment opportunities they may have or know.
If the SAO receives any information of available opportunities, it will be posted on the CHS Job Listing Site and featured in the Weekly Announcements email.
The UCLA Graduate Division provides a starting contact list of departments that typically hire SRs and TAs:
Academic Year Teaching Assistant, Reader, and Tutor Opportunities
Click on the "View TA, Reader, & Tutor Opportunities PDF" button towards the top of the page". Please note that this a listing of the number of anticipated opportunities. The purpose of this list is to serve as a starting point for students to get an idea of how many TAs/SRs a department hires. This is not a job list.
If you have experience or background in an area other than CHS, you are more than welcome to apply or inquire for positions in any department or center on-campus, you are not "locked-in" to CHS to search for employment. For example, typically the unit that hires the most TAs is the Life Sciences. If your undergraduate major was in a life science, it may be a good idea to look out for open TA positions in that department. Available positions from other units on-campus will be included in the CHS Job Listing Site.
Discussion sections provide opportunities for collaboration and active learning that do not always take place in a traditional lecture context. The role of section goes beyond clearing up any confusion remaining after the course material has been presented in lecture. Section also provides students with the opportunity to manipulate and apply course content, resulting in deeper learning. Click here for tips on teaching sections.
Federal work-study grants are available to "financially need eligible" graduate students to complete part-time paid internships, community service, research projects, or other endeavors closely related to their academic degree program. Graduate students working on a research project in his/her discipline qualify for funding, as long as the funding source is not federal. Students are required to complete an application participation request before they can be hired as a work-study student. Detailed information about the program can be found here: https://grad.ucla.edu/funding/financial-aid/graduate-work-study-program/. The Online Work-study Job Bulletin can be accessed on MyUCLA.
Slack: The department has a Slack workspace that has a separate job, internship, postdoc opportunities channel, which students will have access to through the time at UCLA. After graduation, students are added to an alumni listserv, where opportunities are emailed to.
Handshake: Handshake is a platform that connects talented Bruins with internships, jobs and career opportunities. Use Handshake to find workshops, events and other career development programs hosted by the UCLA Career Center.
For current students: https://www.cdc.gov/fellowships/short-term/index.html
For graduates: https://www.cdc.gov/fellowships/full-time/index.html
This directory of Non-NIH Funding Opportunities includes a variety of international grants and fellowships in biomedical and behavioral research. Its goal is to provide information about additional funding opportunities available to those in the field of global health research. The directory is maintained by the Fogarty International Center, the international component of the U.S National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Postdoctoral Students https://www.fic.nih.gov/Funding/NonNIH/Pages/postdoctoral.aspx
Travel - https://www.fic.nih.gov/Funding/NonNIH/Pages/travel.aspx
For scientists who have recently completed their Ph.D. in a science or engineering discipline, a postdoc research position can make an excellent start to a career at a national laboratory or other research facility. ORISE sponsors more than 50 postdocal research programs across the United States, many of which have immediate openings for qualified candidates.Our complete catalog of postdoctoral fellowships will let you search for a program that best suits your qualifications and preferences for location and starting date.
https://orise.orau.gov/stem/internships-fellowships-research-opportunities/postdocs.html