Virtual Orientation Leaders will do the following:
- Facilitate engagement, dialogue, and activities with a small group of 15-25 incoming students for each Advising & Orientation session on Zoom.
- 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.
- Portray the University of Washington, its policies, services, and campus life in a positive manner to first-year students and families.
- 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.
- Promote and encourage engagement in all FYP Programs (Dawg Daze, FIGs, Commuter and Transfer Commons, First Year Networks).
- Other duties as assigned by FYP to support planning and facilitation of A&O and new student transitions