Job Opportunities
Work On Campus!
Resident or Office Assistants
Being a member of the Apartment & Residence Life staff is a great opportunity to make friends, earn a steady income, and take on leadership positions that will set you apart from your classmates when job searching after graduation. The positions available are flexible to work around your academic schedule and provide opportunities to network with other faculty and staff throughout the UTA and Arlington community.
The Department of Apartment & Residence Life also offers part-time job opportunities for students looking to work on-campus. Working at the University is a convenient way to earn money while working toward your degree. Each year we employ around 70 students in roles as resident assistants or office assistants. Listed below are positions that are currently available.
You’ll need to apply for these positions online through the University’s SNAP Job System. Also, you must submit a paper application which can be found in office of the residence hall offering the job, or in the Housing and University Center office for jobs in the apartments.
Current Job Postings
RESIDENT ASSISTANT
Current Openings: Lipscomb Hall
OFFICE ASSISTANT
Current openings: Trinity House
Applications for Fall 2009 can be found on SNAP Jobs.
Requirements for Resident Assistant
- A Resident Assistant must have lived in any of UT Arlington’s Residence Halls for two semesters and have earned at least 15 credit hours.
- RAs must stay current on rent.
- RAs may not engage in romantic or sexual relationships with any resident living in the hall in which they are working as an RA, nor may they engage in any romantic or sexual relationship with any professional or student staff member of the UT Arlington Residence Life Staff.
- RAs must not be placed on disciplinary probation for any reason.
- RAs must meet a minimum 2.5 cumulative grade point average at time of application and maintain 2.5 gpa throughout employment.
- A Resident Assistant must maintain a full-time academic course load (12 credits/semester undergraduate, 9 graduate) but is not to exceed 18 credit hours unless approved by his/her supervisor.
Requirements for Office Assistant
- Each Office Assistant must enroll as a full-time student, unless prior approval has been granted in writing by the Director of Residence Life.
- The OA position is a full academic year appointment which begins at the specified time prior to the opening of the residence halls in the Fall term and continues through the week after Spring term finals, excluding all times when the residence halls are closed (i.e. Winter Session Break). OAs are required to arrive prior to other residents in order to help prepare their building for opening; OAs also stay after residents have checked out and/or until all staff projects are completed.
- For the Fall and Spring terms, it is highly preferred that Office Assistants live in the halls where they work.
- OAs are expected to commit to an entire academic year unless otherwise indicated at time of agreement signing. If an OA must resign, it is desired that the OA tender a letter of resignation to their supervisor at least two weeks prior to their projected end of employment.
- OAs are paid bi-weekly; this pay schedule can be found online at the UT-Arlington Human Resources website.
- OAs will not receive additional pay for working days when the University is closed (i.e. Thanksgiving Break, Spring Break).
- OAs must maintain a minimum 2.25 cumulative grade point average after hire. If the cumulative GPA falls below the minimum after a semester’s grades have been posted, the OA will have 1 semester to raise their cumulative GPA to the minimum. To help with this process, Academic Advisors will contact the OAs to set up 2 meetings during the semester. The OA must attend both of these meetings and create an action plan for improving their GPA.