Student Employment Office

The Admission Summer internship is a full time, on-campus summer opportunity. Helping prospective and admitted students, their loved ones, and any visitors at large feel comfortable with our campus and our community is a critical piece of our work and, over the summer, the Summer Interns are leaders in helping prospective/admitted students to begin seeing themselves as members of the Bates community overall. This role works with a team of other Bates students to carry out tours, in-person and virtual specialized programming, Open Houses and larger visit days, information sessions, panels, desk coverage and welcoming guests into the office, virtual correspondences with prospective students, and a number of special projects in collaboration with staff members around the Admission Office. Professional…

Bates’ Admission Office is committed to welcoming and celebrating prospective students from different backgrounds, abilities, and identities. Though access work feeds throughout all of our interactions with students, families, faculty, counselors, and staff, we aim to provide intentional and equitable programming designed to invite students from historically underrepresented and/or underserved backgrounds to campus and/or the Bates community more widely, helping students get a feel for our offerings on and off of campus. The Access Coordinator position is an integral part of assisting Admissions staff members in charge of planning and carrying out this access-related programming throughout the year. This position requires a conduct review check and applying for this position is consenting to the background check. This may not adversely…

Ambassador (formerly Tour Guide) Coordinators are the logistical and managerial leads of the Ambassador/Tour Guide program in the Admission Office, providing direct support to Admission staff, Ambassadors/Tour Guides, and Senior Fellows, in addition to helping shape the future of campus visitor experience in our office. Coordinators are an absolutely integral part of both daily and long-standing visitor operations. Professional development opportunities, abilities to learn more about Admissions work, and continuous training processes will all be available to Coordinators throughout the year. Successful applicants will be collaborative, enthusiastic, reliable, creative problem-solvers, detail-oriented, organized, efficient, empathetic, and responsible, with the emphasized ability to work independently as needed. We strongly encourage students of all backgrounds, life experiences, interests, and identities to apply. This…

The Senior Fellow position is an integral part of Bates Admissions and serves as a leadership position in our office, complete with opportunities to represent the Bates student experience in all of its complexity and diversity, connect with prospective students and families, and learn more about the vast professional world of Admissions at large. Senior Fellow responsibilities include co-leading in-person information sessions with a member of Admission staff to welcome prospective students, their families and loved ones, and special guests to campus and the Bates community. In addition, Senior Fellows will have regular weekly shifts covering the front desk, involving checking guests in, answering emails from prospective students, and working closely with our Operations Team for further logistical tasks. Based…

The Summer Admission Intern position is a full time, on-campus summer internship. Summer interns work as a tight-knit team, and are an integral component to the Office of Admission during this peak season for prospective students to explore Bates, in-person and virtually. If you are a student who desires to learn more about admission, outreach, access, and recruitment at Bates, this is the ideal opportunity for you! Interns’ primary responsibility is leading on-campus tours twice a day, thereby providing prospective students and their families with the unique student perspective to academic and extracurricular offerings and opportunities, and campus life broadly. They will also connect with prospective families through in-person and virtual information sessions, social media platforms, student panels, and email…