Graduate Asst

The Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement (CLCE) at USF is one of nine entities reporting to the Associate Vice President for Community Development and Student Engagement Dean of Students within the Vice President for Student Affairs and Students Success portfolio. The CLCE intends to become content experts and community connectors in support of USF leadership and civic engagement initiatives.

We believe in: Curiosity Flexibility Collaboration Citizenship Justice The CLCE trains, educates, and develops USF community members to be effective, ethical, and positively engaged leaders among the global community, envisioning each USF student as an educated and empowered catalyst for positive social change. Toward this aim, we are seeking colleagues who will mirror our positively restless, solution focused, collaborative mentality as we build human capacity informed by leadership theory and research.

Daily, the CLCE staff operationalizes data driven, outcomes focused, civic engagement and leadership initiatives supported by assessment and informed by current leadership and civic engagement literature, including the leadership identity development model, the social change model of leadership development, the relational leadership model, the active citizens continuum, and related theories and models.

Operationalize the CLCE's data driven, outcomes focused, leadership and civic engagement-connected approach to assessment including ongoing formative, process, and summative data collection and analysis. Support, develop (e.g. program design, resource management, risk and liability management, training, and assessment), implement (e.

g. asynchronous, synchronous, online, and in-person delivery), and assess CLCE leadership, civic engagement, and student organization initiatives. Support these experiences using a campus-wide student engagement system (e.g. Bulls. Connect) and CLCE-managed facilities. Support the implementation of CLCE aligned partner events.

Support the management of CLCE physical spaces. Other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

may include, but are not limited to, representing the CLCE as needed at CLCE and university events.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree. Must be fully admitted in a graduate degree program; classified as a degree seeking graduate student, and meet the requirements of the graduate school.

Preferred Qualifications

Undergraduate, non-profit, or related experience in a leadership, civic engagement, or other student affairs office or student organization. Interest in civic engagement and/or leadership development as a career field. Maintain active USF degree-seeking, graduate student status with good academic standing (minimum 3.0 GPA or minimum GPA required by program) and full-time enrollment during each appointment semester.

The University of South Florida is a top-ranked research university serving approximately 50,000 students from across the globe at campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and USF Health. In 2025, U.S. News & World Report recognized USF with its highest overall ranking in university history, as a top 50 public university for the seventh consecutive year and as one of the top 15 best values among all public universities in the nation.

U.S. News also ranks the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine in the highest tier, placing it as one of the top 16 medical schools in the nation and inside the top 10 among public universities. USF is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), a group that includes only the top 3% of universities in the U.

S. With an all-time high of $750 million in research funding in 2025 and as a top 20 public university for producing U.S. patents, USF uses innovation to transform lives and shape a better future. The university generates an annual economic impact of nearly $10 billion for the state of Florida. USF’s Division I athletics teams compete in the American Conference.

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