Library at LaGuardia Community College is looking for bilingual students for their financial literacy project in Spring 2023. The job entails translating a glossary of financial terms into the following heritage languages: Bengali, Hindi, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, French, Nepalese, and Haitian Creole. The position begins in March 2023 until June 2023 and it will pay $15.61/hour for 12 hours per week. The application deadline is mid-January 2023. See below for more information about the job opening. This is an on-campus job and international (F1) students are eligible to apply. See this or below for more info.

JOB TITLE: FINLIT FOR LIFE STUDENT ADVISORS (COLLEGE ASSISTANT)

• LOCATION: LaGuardia Community College
• POSITION Temporary Part-Time
• GENERAL DUTIES: The eight FinLit for Life Student Advisors will:
  • Review translations of personal finance glossary terms and definitions translated into their heritage languages. After review, students will recommend suggestions to improve simplicity.
  • Review and revise materials to reflect their personal and family experiences related to their financial lives through a series of facilitated workshops.
  • Plan and produce video testimonials of their experiences as a FinLit for Life Student Advisor.
• COMPENSATION: $15.61/hr (12 hours a week for 12 weeks)
• DESCRIPTION: The Library at LaGuardia is seeking eight part-time Student Advisors (College Assistants) who will be a member of a grant project team beginning in March 2023 through June 2024. This project will fund an effort to provide financial literacy education to LaGuardia students in the form of Open Educational Resources (OER). OER is a term given to “teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.” The OER created in this project will focus on mining the already-vast literature on personal finance, viewing it through a critical financial literacy lens empowering students to make informed economic choices. To target the needs of the population of students at the College and to ensure that the OER reflects the students’ lived experiences, the resources will be created with the collaboration of LaGuardia students. Topics will include tracking expenses, budgeting, and investing. The material will include a glossary of financial terms, annotated lists of resources on specific topics such as student loans, and interactive maps of local banks and other financial institutions with contact information. Upon completion, the OER will be freely available and accessible online for all.
• PARTICIPANT RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Reading OER materials on personal finance, using a rubric to give feedback.
  • Revise personal finance OER materials to reflect your personal and family experiences through a series of facilitated workshops.
  • Review translations of glossary terms and definitions translated into your heritage language.
• MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
  • Current LaGuardia student
  • Non-CUNY employee
  • Interest in finance and/or investment.
  • Reliable and detail oriented.
  • Willingness to form and express opinions about texts.
  • Willingness to meaningfully review and engage with texts.
  • Fluent in a language other than English (Spanish, Creole, Tibetan, Bengali, Chinese, Punjabi, or Tagalog).
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Familiarity with the communities in which they live.
  • Familiarity with Open Education Resources.
• Note: As the Library Grant Student Advisor finalists are mainly remote, the selected finalist is expected to have access to a laptop/computer, internet, and phone access to perform most job duties and responsibilities. This position will require some in-person hours at the LaGuardia Community College Library, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Room E-101, Long Island City, NY 11101.
• HOW TO APPLY: Please email the following to Derek Stadler (dstadler@lagcc.cuny.edu):
  • Your Name
  • Email Address
  • Home Address
  • A written description of what it is about finance that interests you and why you are interested in this position (a page or about 250 words).
  • Your resume
• CLOSING DATE: Open until filled.
• EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: CUNY encourages people with disabilities, minorities, veterans and women to apply. At CUNY, Italian Americans are also included among our protected groups. Applicants and employees will not be discriminated against on the basis of any legally protected category, including sexual orientation or gender identity. EEO/AA/Vet/Disability Employer.