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Academic Success Navigator
Undergraduate Academic Success Navigators support the Academic Success Center mission by providing students with individualized referrals and support utilizing ASC's main programs: Academic Skills Coaching, Accountability Groups, Writing and Communication Consultations, Supplemental Instruction, and Tutoring Services. These meetings serve as intake for the ASC to ensure each student takes advantage of the most suitable offerings for their unique needs. Navigators are also knowledgeable about Iowa State's campus resources beyond the ASC. Undergraduate Navigators are paid $15.00 an hour. Find out more about Academic Success Navigators.
Communication Consultant
Communication Consultants are undergraduate students from all disciplines who are committed to helping their peers. Communication Consultants offer individualized assistance to students, staff, faculty, and community members across the disciplines working on any form of written, oral, visual, or electronic (WOVE) communication. Communication Consultants help students at all stages of the composition process, from brainstorming and organizing ideas to revising and polishing drafts. Writing and Communication Consultations does not offer editing or proofreading services. Instead, Communication Consultants help students evaluate and improve the effectiveness of their own work. Through assisting others, Communication Consultants gain valuable teaching and teamwork experience, hone their communication skills, and become better writers themselves.
Applications are closed for Fall 2025. Please check again if there are openings for Spring 2026 in November.
Peer Academic Skills Coach
Peer Academic Skills Coaches support fellow undergraduate students in the development of academic skills including time management, study strategies, note-taking, and goal setting. Peer Coaches serve as mentors and accountability partners through facilitating one-on-one student appointments and leading weekly Accountability Group sessions. Peer Coaches also conduct outreach initiatives for the Academic Success Center by presenting academic skills workshops to campus partners, classrooms, and student organizations. This position provides students the opportunity to make an impact on others and develop valuable skills such as relationship-building, leadership, public speaking, and organizational and professional skills. Learn more by visiting our web pages: Academic Skill Coaching, Accountability Groups, and Workshops.
Applications are closed for Fall 2025. Please check back in late 2025 for any openings for Spring 2026.
Front Desk Student Assistant
Student Assistants are undergraduate employees who work as front desk staff and office support staff in the Academic Success Center (ASC) for its main programs: Academic Skills Coaching, Academic Success Navigation, Accountability Groups, Writing and Communication Consultations, Supplemental Instruction, and Tutoring Services. Student assistants are paid $11/hr.
Tutor
A tutor provides course-specific academic support to undergraduate students. Tutors must have taken the course(s) that they want to tutor at Iowa State University and earned a B or higher. Tutors are paid $15/hr. Click here to apply
We are no longer able to hire additional international tutors at this time.
Supplemental Instruction Leader
SI Leaders are undergraduate students who provide peer academic support for an assigned course. SI Leaders assist in student learning and retention at Iowa State University through facilitation of SI sessions that help students better understand concepts and applications of course content. SI Leaders must have taken the course at Iowa State and earned a B+ or higher. SI Leaders are paid $15/hr.