DesignLab Graduate Teaching Assistant - Digital Design Consultant

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DesignLab is hiring a Graduate Teaching Assistant - Digital Design Consultant. This role involves consulting with UW-Madison students, faculty, and staff to improve their digital media projects, delivering workshops, and developing curricular materials across campus while participating in weekly staff meetings and professional development sessions.

Highlights

Provide digital design consulting and tutoring to UW-Madison community members through one-on-one and small group sessions.
Deliver instructional workshops and develop curricular materials for courses that incorporate digital media.
Participate in weekly staff meetings for collaboration, updates, and training on software and teaching methods.
Work approximately 20 hours per week, including lab shifts, staff meetings, and project/instruction time.
Preferred technical skills include experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Audacity, Canva, WordPress, Tableau, R, and ArcGIS.
Applicants must be graduate students eligible for teaching assistant positions with availability every Monday 10am-12pm.
Demonstrated proficiency in digital design and interest in areas like graphic design, video/sound production, UI/UX, data visualization, or related fields is essential.
Minimum 1-2 years of experience in digital design or production and at least 1 year of teaching or consulting experience required.
Position is in-person, requiring physical presence on campus at various library and campus locations.
Starting August 17, 2026, with a minimum salary of $14,578.50 for the term ending December 31, 2026.

DesignLab Graduate Teaching Assistant - Digital Design Consultant Full Description

Department Overview:	DesignLab is a digital media design consulting service for students and instructors at UW-Madison. Through one-on-one and small group consultations, we are helping the UW-Madison campus design better by working more effectively in digital media. DesignLab has a two-part mission that includes services for both UW-Madison students and instructors. First, DesignLab seeks to expand expertise in digital media design on the UW-Madison campus by providing high-quality tutoring for all undergraduate and graduate students, as well as digital design consulting for researchers in all fields. Second, DesignLab seeks to improve instruction at UW-Madison by offering curricular services and support to instructors using digital media assignments in their courses. Through these combined goals, DesignLab is contributing to the UW-Madisonâs central mission to provide a learning environment in which faculty, staff, and students can discover, examine critically, preserve, and transmit the knowledge, wisdom, and values that will improve the quality of life for all.
Anticipated Start Date:	Aug 17, 2026
Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):	Dec 31, 2026
Remote Work Eligibility Detail:	Not Remote Â
Anticipated Hours Per Week:	Minimum: 20Â
Schedule:	Training Week: Aug 24-28 (15-20 hours total, times flexible) Approximately 20 hours per week divided as follows: -Required Weekly Staff Meeting: Every Monday 10am-12pm (2 hours per week), beginning Sept 7 -Lab Shifts set by supervisor totaling 12 hours per week, starting Sept 2-Dec 9 -Additional 6 hours per week of projects, instruction, or outreach
Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:	Minimum: $14,578.50
Number of Positions:	1-2
Qualifications:	Applicants must be graduate students eligible for teaching assistant positions and must be available every Monday from 10am-12pm for our weekly lab meeting. Applicants should have excellent time-management skills, have the flexibility to adapt their schedule to new assignments as they come in weekly, and be able to handle multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously. Preference will be given to applicants who have flexible schedules. Applicants should also be able to demonstrate proficiency in digital media design. A well-evidenced interest in one or more of the following areas is essential: communication, graphic design, video production, sound design, digital literacy, data visualization, life science communication, user interface/user experience (UI/UX), or other related fields.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:	Minimum technical skills: 1-2 years of experience in digital design or production. 1+ year of teaching and/or consulting experience. All staff are expected to participate in training sessions for all the tools used by DesignLab, but preference will be given to applicants with expertise in such skills as digital illustration, graphic design, data visualization, website or app design, print design, video production, sound design, and/or cartography. Experience with the following software is preferred but not required: any of the Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Audition, Express, etc.), Audacity, PowerPoint, Canva, WordPress, Tableau, R, and ArcGIS. Please do not use AI to write your application materials.
Position Summary/Job Duties:	TAs will work as consultants in the DesignLab for 12 hours per week (as assigned by your supervisor). In this role, TAs will take appointments and drop-in consultations in one of our locations: College Library (Main Location), Ebling Library (Satellite), Memorial Library (Satellite), Morgridge Hall (Satellite), or other locations as assigned. During consultations, the TA will support UW-Madison students, faculty, and staff to design better digital media projects. TAs will also participate in the weekly staff meeting (Mondays 10am-12pm). In these meetings, we share weekly notes, give updates on instruction, and workshop new assignments. Occasionally, we will have discussions on new technology or pedagogical approaches, as well as bring in trainers to help our staff learn software. We see this as a professional development time for our staff to learn from each other. Outside of the lab, TAs will use existing DesignLab templates to prepare and deliver outreach and teaching materials in courses across the UW-Madison campus. These materials include delivering lectures, running workshops, offering drop-in help sessions, or other materials as necessary.
Physical Demands:	This is an in-person position. Applicants need to be physically on campus and will work in various buildings. We will make accommodations for accessible classrooms and workspaces as needed.
Institutional Statements:	Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce. Institutional Statement on Diversity: Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals. The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world. For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu Accommodation Statement: If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/

Original Job Description

Department Overview:	DesignLab is a digital media design consulting service for students and instructors at UW-Madison. Through one-on-one and small group consultations, we are helping the UW-Madison campus design better by working more effectively in digital media. DesignLab has a two-part mission that includes services for both UW-Madison students and instructors. First, DesignLab seeks to expand expertise in digital media design on the UW-Madison campus by providing high-quality tutoring for all undergraduate and graduate students, as well as digital design consulting for researchers in all fields. Second, DesignLab seeks to improve instruction at UW-Madison by offering curricular services and support to instructors using digital media assignments in their courses. Through these combined goals, DesignLab is contributing to the UW-Madisonâs central mission to provide a learning environment in which faculty, staff, and students can discover, examine critically, preserve, and transmit the knowledge, wisdom, and values that will improve the quality of life for all.
Anticipated Start Date:	Aug 17, 2026
Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):	Dec 31, 2026
Remote Work Eligibility Detail:	Not Remote Â
Anticipated Hours Per Week:	Minimum: 20Â
Schedule:	Training Week: Aug 24-28 (15-20 hours total, times flexible) Approximately 20 hours per week divided as follows: -Required Weekly Staff Meeting: Every Monday 10am-12pm (2 hours per week), beginning Sept 7 -Lab Shifts set by supervisor totaling 12 hours per week, starting Sept 2-Dec 9 -Additional 6 hours per week of projects, instruction, or outreach
Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:	Minimum: $14,578.50
Number of Positions:	1-2
Qualifications:	Applicants must be graduate students eligible for teaching assistant positions and must be available every Monday from 10am-12pm for our weekly lab meeting. Applicants should have excellent time-management skills, have the flexibility to adapt their schedule to new assignments as they come in weekly, and be able to handle multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously. Preference will be given to applicants who have flexible schedules. Applicants should also be able to demonstrate proficiency in digital media design. A well-evidenced interest in one or more of the following areas is essential: communication, graphic design, video production, sound design, digital literacy, data visualization, life science communication, user interface/user experience (UI/UX), or other related fields.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:	Minimum technical skills: 1-2 years of experience in digital design or production. 1+ year of teaching and/or consulting experience. All staff are expected to participate in training sessions for all the tools used by DesignLab, but preference will be given to applicants with expertise in such skills as digital illustration, graphic design, data visualization, website or app design, print design, video production, sound design, and/or cartography. Experience with the following software is preferred but not required: any of the Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Audition, Express, etc.), Audacity, PowerPoint, Canva, WordPress, Tableau, R, and ArcGIS. Please do not use AI to write your application materials.
Position Summary/Job Duties:	TAs will work as consultants in the DesignLab for 12 hours per week (as assigned by your supervisor). In this role, TAs will take appointments and drop-in consultations in one of our locations: College Library (Main Location), Ebling Library (Satellite), Memorial Library (Satellite), Morgridge Hall (Satellite), or other locations as assigned. During consultations, the TA will support UW-Madison students, faculty, and staff to design better digital media projects. TAs will also participate in the weekly staff meeting (Mondays 10am-12pm). In these meetings, we share weekly notes, give updates on instruction, and workshop new assignments. Occasionally, we will have discussions on new technology or pedagogical approaches, as well as bring in trainers to help our staff learn software. We see this as a professional development time for our staff to learn from each other. Outside of the lab, TAs will use existing DesignLab templates to prepare and deliver outreach and teaching materials in courses across the UW-Madison campus. These materials include delivering lectures, running workshops, offering drop-in help sessions, or other materials as necessary.
Physical Demands:	This is an in-person position. Applicants need to be physically on campus and will work in various buildings. We will make accommodations for accessible classrooms and workspaces as needed.
Institutional Statements:	Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce. Institutional Statement on Diversity: Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals. The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world. For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu Accommodation Statement: If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/

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