ASC K-16 Education Program is looking for Student Assistants!

The BU African Studies Center K-16 Education Program aims to promote teaching about Africa and African-related studies in U.S. K-12 schools. In this position, student assistants will be responsible for supporting the management of resources for teachers, including handling orders of educational products that our office sells to teachers and educators (posters, DVDs, and country kits) and keeping track of billing. Other tasks may include: designing flyers as promotional tools for events; sending out announcements to mailing lists using MailChimp; maintaining our Facebook and Twitter accounts, recruiting teachers for the Teaching Africa Teacher program. You will also serve as a library assistant, which will entail cataloguing new books and following up with overdue books. Finally, the students will work on special projects related to building new curriculum for teachers. The position will run throughout the summer on a weekly basis. Students are expected to work 7 hours in the office weekly, but there is flexibility with schedule planning.

Students are paid $17/hour.