TEMP-Business Ops Support (Ignite Graduate Assistantship, Experiential & Engaged Learning)

Job Title : TEMP-Business Ops Support (Ignite Graduate Assistantship, Experiential & Engaged Learning)

Location : Atlanta, Georgia

Regular / Temporary : Temporary

Full / Part Time : Full-Time

Job ID : 292702

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do :

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information

About Ignite

Ignite is Georgia Tech's largest first-year summer launch program. Each year, we welcome 400-500 newly admitted first year students to begin their yellow jacket journey during the late-short summer semester. Our goal each year is to provide our students with the tools and insights necessary to not only have a successful transition into our community, but to also enter their first full semester with a clearer picture of how to maximize their experience throughout their time at Georgia Tech. Ignite students take 2-3 courses, become familiar with our team and other staff / faculty on-campus, learn how to navigate campus, and build a community of friends to ignite (pun intended) their experience at Georgia Tech. With over 130 events offered during ignite 2025, we take pride in providing opportunities for Ignite students to meet people, get to know campus, and have fun.

This position gives the successful candidate a chance to be on our leadership team in a highly collaborative environment with over a dozen campus partners involved in our program's success. The collaboration and communication between these campus partners and the incoming students and their family is crucial to the success of Ignite. We are excited to welcome a graduate assistant and believe in our ability to provide the successful candidate with a plethora of experiences to enhance their graduate student experience.

Proposed dates of the Ignite Graduate Assistantship : May - August 2026. Dates can be negotiated as needed.

This position reports to the Senior Director of Development, Student Experience and has a dual reporting structure with OUESS and Georgia Tech Development.

Department Information

About the Office of Undergraduate Education and Student Success (OUESS)

Under the leadership of the Vice Provost for OUESS, the OUESS challenges students to become accomplished learners who can make meaningful connections among work, study, and community. We connect curricular and co-curricular offerings to support students in developing a strong foundation for success, during college and after. We do this through the efforts of our faculty, professional staff, and students, and we strive to create and maintain a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive educational and work environment. Visit www.oue.gatech.edu .

About the Office of Experiential and Engaged Learning

The Office of Experiential and Engaged Learning (E2L), a unit within the Office of Undergraduate Education and Student Success (OUESS), embodies the lifeblood of the Institute's "hand and mind" approach to education and its aspirations "to provide all students with transformative learning experiences to grow as creative, ethical, globally aware, technologically sophisticated leaders who can define and solve problems to improve the human condition." We activate this ambition through the facilitation and development of High-Impact Practices including community-based learning, living learning communities, transition seminars, student innovation, undergraduate research, and work-based learning.

Job Summary

Provide professional services in support of unit management in field as specified in the particular job posting. Focus will be in a professional field such as Communications, Marketing, Customer Service, Academic Administration, Event Management, Procurement, etc. Specific duties will be determined based on assignment and unit needs. This position will interact on a consistent basis with : unit management and staffThis position typically will advise and counsel : unit management and staffThis position will supervise : NA

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 -

Perform duties related to professional field assignment.

Job Duty 2 -

Participate in reviews for compliance with policy and governmental regulations in the field.

Job Duty 3 -

Provide input to department policies and procedures.

Job Duty 4 -

May provide input to and administer project timelines and budgets.

Job Duty 5 -

May interact with vendors regarding procurement and delivery issues.

Job Duty 6 -

Perform other duties as assigned

Responsibilities

Position Responsibilities :

• Assist with the scheduling, organization, and execution of events throughout Ignite
• Coordinate the Ignite team schedule with evening and weekend shifts being common. We work together to build flex time for all team members. Schedule flexibility is important to us
• Participate in stakeholder meetings that include, but are not limited to :

FASET (orientation office)

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Experience

Up to two years of job related experience

Preferred Qualifications

Proposed Salary

This position must be available to work standard GT business hours M-F, 8-5 (or 7-4 or 9-6), as well as some evenings as weekends based on events and donor meetings and with advanced notice. We are looking for hardworking professionals to join our organization of talented, energetic, and creative team members.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

SKILLS

This job requires application of professional principles, processes and practices; application of regulations; utilization of basic and advanced computer applications including those specific to areas of responsibility; communication skills.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this position, please contact Elena Rivera-Himmelstein at eriverah3@gatech.edu.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https : / / www.usg.edu / policymanual / section8 / C224 / #p8.2.18_personnel_conduct .

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https : / / www.usg.edu / policymanual / section6 / C2653 .

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and / or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Other Information

This is not a supervisory position.

This position does not have any financial responsibilities.

This position will not be required to drive.

This role is not considered a position of trust.

This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).

This position will not travel

This position does not require security clearance.