Our Access, Relevance, Community Transfer Initiative is looking to hire Peer Mentors for the 2024-25 school year.
ARC Transfer Pathways aims to increase awareness and responsiveness to Asian American and Pacific Islander, and low-income transfer students at SFSU. As a year-long commitment, peer mentors will receive training on how to support their peers, connect them to campus resources, and build community. They will meet with faculty members and ARC project staff to support their peers in the classroom in the areas of student belonging, transfer support, and transition to careers.
As a peer mentor, you will be able to work as a student through opportunities to gain career-related experience and skills in education, advising, outreach, and community building. Our research on peer mentors at SF State share that students’ sense of belonging and purpose help them to stay engaged and persist to graduation. Additionally, our peer mentors develop important skills for their future careers—such as intergenerational communication, workshop development, and conflict resolution—and learn how to communicate these skills to future employers. Peer mentors must currently be enrolled as students at SFSU.
All questions should be sent to Levalasi Loi-On at levalasi@sfsu.edu.
- Work with ARC staff and faculty to meet ARC goals
- Support AANAPISI team with coordinating and delivering workshops, campus visits, and program activities
- Meet weekly with peer mentor team to prepare for events and programming
- Meet weekly with faculty to prepare for ARC course and identify students to support
- Help students become familiar with the college process and meet individually with students
- Assist with a communication plan to all partners and campuses
- Record observations and submit monthly reports
- Coordinate community study circles
- Participate in Fall and Winter Retreats
- Work with ARC staff and faculty to meet ARC goals
- Support AANAPISI team with coordinating and delivering workshops, campus visits, and program activities
- Meet weekly with peer mentor team to prepare for events and programming
- Meet weekly with faculty to prepare for ARC course and identify students to support
- Help students become familiar with the college process and meet individually with students
- Assist with a communication plan to all partners and campuses
- Record observations and submit monthly reports
- Coordinate community study circles
- Participate in Fall and Winter Retreats
For consideration, candidates must possess the following qualifications:
- Upper division standing, graduate students also encouraged to apply
- Minimum GPA of 3.0
- Must have experience working with students
- Strong interpersonal and public speaking skills
- Knowledge of SF State resources.
- Successful completion of courses in Ethnic Studies, Race and Resistance, American Indian Studies, Africana Studies, Latinx Studies and/or Asian American Studies
- Experience tutoring and peer mentoring
- Can speak and understand different languages
- Have a strong commitment to equity and social justice
Due to the goals of our initiative, we also highly encourage transfer students from Cañada College, College of San Mateo, and Skyline College to apply for this role.
Compensation: Minimum 1-year commitment with 6 to 10 hours per week at $20 an hour
Mandatory Trainings / Dates:
Peer Mentor Training - August 19 & 20, Time TBD
Weekly Peer Mentor Staff Meetings – Fridays from 9:30 – 11AM, August 30, 2024 – May 23, 2025
