Student Assistant – UI/UX & Social Media Support (Part-Time)

Department Overview:

Anticipated Start Date:

Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):

Remote Work Eligibility Detail:

Partially Remote

Anticipated Hours Per Week:

Schedule:

Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:

Number of Positions:

Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Necessary:

Ability to design and create wireframes.

Strong communication skills for client interaction and team collaboration.
Good to Have:
Basic knowledge of HTML/CSS.
Graphic design skills and familiarity with Adobe Illustrator.
Understanding of accessible design principles and practices.
Bonus Skills
Programming experience, especially in JavaScript.
GIS knowledge or experience.

Familiarity with ArcGIS StoryMaps.

Position Summary/Job Duties:

Primary Responsibilities: UI/UX Design

Meet with clients (alongside the web developer and project manager) to gather requirements for new websites or redesigns.
Propose front-end design concepts tailored to client and user needs.
Suggest fonts, color schemes, and layout options.
Produce wireframes using tools of your choice.
Conduct user testing with support from the web developer to evaluate and refine designs.
Secondary Responsibilities: Social Media & Marketting
Assist in creating and posting content for platforms such as Mailchimp and BlueSky.

Physical Demands:

Ability to see, hear, speak and type.

Institutional Statements:

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu

Accommodation Statement:

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/