First Year Programs

Role responsibilities

Virtual Orientation Leaders will do the following:

  1. Facilitate engagement, dialogue, and activities with a small group of 15-25 incoming students for each Advising & Orientation session on Zoom.
  2. Support advisers and UW staff in Zoom by hosting the main room/breakout rooms, answering questions, aiding with course registration, and providing customer service for both students and advisers. 
  3. Portray the University of Washington, its policies, services, and campus life in a positive manner to first-year students and families.
  4. Communicate with students using email, texting with FYP-provided phone number and web-based platform, and social media until the first day of admitted quarter (fall, winter, or spring).
    • VOLs will use their personal cell phones (masking their phone numbers) to text and call incoming students. 
  5. Promote and encourage engagement in all FYP Programs (Dawg Daze, FIGs, Commuter and Transfer Commons, First Year Networks).
  6. Other duties as assigned by FYP to support planning and facilitation of A&O and new student transitions