We are searching for our next Graduate Professional Assistant for the 2025-2026 Academic Year!
Full Position Posting PDF (Excerpt below)
Mission Statement
The LGBTQ+ Resources Center cultivates the success and well-being of queer, trans, non-binary, and questioning students, staff, and faculty. Our work is deeply collaborative and rooted in intersectional justice. We build identity-affirming programs, develop leaders, provide critical resources, and foster a culture of equity and allyship, at George Mason.
Function
The Graduate Professional Assistant (GPA) for the LGBTQ+ Resources Center provides administrative and programmatic support to the LGBTQ+ Resources Center. The GPA assists with program planning, implementation, coordination, and assessment in support of co-curricular experiences for LGBTQ+ students. The GPA maintains office hours in the LGBTQ+ Resources Center suite and assists in building and strengthening George Mason’s LGBTQ+ communities, within the center and across campus. In addition, the GPA assists in overseeing communication about programs and services using web, social media, listservs, and other outlets. Lastly, the GPA will be integral to informal feedback processes and someone to whom students can share their interests, needs, preferences, and concerns. The GPA is supervised by the Associate Director of the LGBTQ+ Resources Center. The GPA assists with oversight of the LGBTQ+ Resources Center Internship Program and Center space.
Position Responsibilities
Student Affairs Professional Experience
- Serve on the LGBTQ+ Resources Center professional staff team. Attend staff meetings, small team meetings, large area meetings, and other meetings as assigned. Establish connections with students within and outside assigned advising and coaching responsibilities. Gain and maintain overall knowledge of the LGBTQ+ Resources Center, University Life, and George Mason University.
- In coordination with and directed by supervisor, participate in and attend programs, events, trainings, organizational meetings, and conferences, on and off campus, related to the work of the LGBTQ+ Resources Center.
Coaching & Facilitation
- Serve on the LGBTQ+ Resources Center Leadership Team. Function as a thought-partner for Director, Associate Director, other graduate staff, and undergraduate staff.
- Consult with student leaders as needed on behalf of the LGBTQ+ Resources Center
- Coach Center Interns in their service to the LGBTQ+ Resources Center
- Participate in the Safe Zone+ Program and join the facilitator team, co-facilitating one Safe Zone+ Intro to LGBTQ+ Communities session per semester.
Program Coordination
- Co-coordinate, with the Associate Director, either the LGBTQ+ Peer Mentoring Program or the LGBTQ+ Residential Learning Community, which both provide opportunities for queer, trans, non-binary, and/or questioning students at George Mason to connect with critical community resources. Coordination will include training, support, and coaching of the student staff, engagement with participants, collaboration with student programmers, community partners, and faculty in delivering meaningful opportunities for engagement, and use of appropriate assessment methods to understand and communicate impact of the program.
Stewardship & Student Support
- Assist in overall stewardship of the LGBTQ+ Resources Center physical suite.
- Contribute ideas and feedback on broader department goals and initiatives.
- Greet and assist students and visitors as they enter the suite.
- Be knowledgeable about programs, services, and resources; providing information as needed.
- Meet with students 1:1 as needed.
Outreach & Events
- Represent and support the LGBTQ+ Resources Center at various campus events and outreach activities, responding to requests for interviews, class presentations, kiosking/tabling, and research opportunities.
- Build and maintain positive relationships and opportunities to engage with campus partners
- Assist in creating and/or approving promotional materials and communications as needed.
GPA Time Commitments
The Graduate Professional Assistant position is designed for a 20 hour per week work commitment. At times, the work may require extended hours and/or night and weekend work hours. Included in these hours is required participation in the University Life Graduate Staff Academy each month, as class schedule allows.
- This position is a 9.5 month GPA contract (10 August 2025 – 24 May 2026), with the possibility of renewal for a second academic year.
- All information, including rules and regulations, regarding all graduate assistantship can be located on the Provost Graduate Division website