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PLEASE READ: You must be awarded Federal Work-Study to work one of these jobs. If you are not sure that you are awarded log into the myMemphis portal and click on the Accounts tab and look under Financial Aid Awards for Award Year 2011-2012 to see if you have been awarded for Fall 2011 or contact the Student Employment Office and provide your U ID number (not Social Security Number).

If you are an international student under an F-1 visa, you are not eligible to work under Federal Work-Study.

You must be enrolled at least half-time (6 credit hours-Undergraduate/Law, and 5 credit hours-Graduate) to be eligible to work on-campus for the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters.

If you are currently working as a federal work-study employee in a department, you cannot work for another department at the same time. Also, you cannot work under Federal Work-Study and Regular Student Employment at the same time. You may work up to 37.5 hours a week, but it is up to the department to determine how many hours a week you can work.

After reading over the job lists, if you see a department you are interested in, please contact that department for an interview. You may take the copy of the job list with you. The hiring department will provide an employment application, if needed.


This information last revised: February 10, 2012 

 
Semester Needed: Spring 2012
Date Needed: ASAP
Department: Center for Research on Women
Location: 337 Clement
Job Description: We are looking for an organized, self-starter, detail-oriented student with IT skills. The typical daily task will be scanning research/data results.  Applicant must be eligible for Federal Work Study.  Email, fax or deliver a completed Application for Student Employment (http://www.memphis.edu/financialaid/seforms.php), resume with cover letter and estimated work schedule. Our office hours are 8:00 am - 4:30pm, M -F.
Duties: typing, computer knowledge
No. of Students Needed: 1 student worker
Hours: 10-15 per week (afternoons preferred)
Pay Rate: $8.00 per hour
Contact Person: Lornette Stokes
E-mail: lwstokes@memphis.edu
Contact Phone: 678-2770
Fax Number: 678-3652

 

 

 
Semester Needed: Spring 2012
Date Needed: ASAP
Department: Client Support Services - Helpdesk Agent
Location: 124 Administration Building
Job Description: Must be able to accurately document all phone calls using the online ticketing system. Must be able to troubleshoot technical issues over the phone and face-to-face. Must possess excellent customer service skills, dependable, and self-motivated. Must be able to type by touch. Hours needed 11pm-7am (overnight shift).
Duties: typing, computer knowledge, answering phones
No. of Students Needed: 3 student workers
Hours: 20 per week
Pay Rate: $7.25 per hour
Contact Person: https://css.memphis.edu/employment
E-mail: https://css.memphis.edu/employment
Contact Phone:  
Fax Number:  

 

 
Semester Needed: Ongoing
Date Needed: Immediately
Department: Computer Science
Location: Dunn Hall, Rm. 226
Job Description: The Networking Research Lab has NSF funded projects on Internet monitoring and design. Interested students can email their transcript and resume to lanwang@memphis.edu.

The requirements are: (1) Passed COMP2150 or equivalent with at least and A-, (2) Average GPA above 3.0, (3) Solid programming experience in C/C++ or Java, (4) Knowledge about networking, operating systems (esp. UNIX), and (5) Some system admin. experience is a plus.

For more information about the research projects, please go to http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~lanwang/ and http://netlab.cs.memphis.edu.

Duties: See above job description
No. of Students Needed: 2 student workers
Hours: 10+ per week
Pay Rate: $9.00 per hour
Contact Person: Lan Wang
E-mail: lanwang@memphis.edu
Contact Phone: 901-678-2727 or 901-678-1546
Fax Number: 901-678-1506

 

 

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