SRSU Peer Mentor

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Job Title SRSU 1101 Peer Mentor

Location Alpine, TX

Posting Date 03/13/2025

Salary $12 per hour; 3-15 hours (or less) per week

Required Third semester or higher student.

Preferred Spanish speaking.

Background check required Yes.

The Peer Mentor (PM) is a returning student assigned to a particular SRSU 1101 section and serves as a mentor and role model to first-semester students. The PM assists students in learning to balance college and academic life, provides information on university resources (both academic, social, and cultural), and helps students learn how to be academically successful.

• Work four to fifteen hours a week.
• Meet weekly with the professor of their SRSU 1101 section.
• Meet weekly with the Assistant Dean for Student Success for training.
• Attend the PM’s assigned SRSU 1101 instructor as needed (grading, attendance taking, setting up appointments).
• Makes student referrals to campus resources as appropriate.
• Follow up with students who are not attending class.
• Engage with students from class in out-of-activities.
• Maintain on-going communication with students.

It is the policy of Sul Ross State University to provide equal employment opportunity for all persons in accordance with their individual, job related qualifications and without consideration of race, creed, color, sex, religion, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status and ancestry. Equal employment opportunities shall be afforded in all personnel actions or decisions including, but not necessarily limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, upgrading, promotion, demotion, termination and salary.

Retaliation is prohibited against a person who opposes a discriminatory practice, files a charge, testifies, assists or participates in an investigative proceeding or hearing.