OSCA Staff Application Information

Thank you for applying for an All-OSCA staff, committee coordinator, or General Management Team position! We appreciate your interest and wish you the best of luck in this process.

This is an information sheet about some of OSCA’s policies regarding All-OSCA positions. Read this and hang on to it when you’re done to use as a reference.

OSCA does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

Applying for more than one position:

People applying for more than one All-OSCA position are asked to fill out a separate application for each position.

Read the job description:

Hanging outside the OSCA office are current job descriptions for All-OSCA positions. Please read the appropriate job description(s).

Getting into OSCA and jumping the wait list:

All-OSCA staff and committee coordinators can jump the OSCA wait list into the dining co-op of their choice. This allows for OSCA staff to become members of OSCA. (Note that only 7% of each co-op’s membership may be all-OSCA staff, so you may not be able to jump into your top choice co-op right away.)

General Management Team positions allow you to jump the OSCA wait list into the living and/or dining co-op of your choice. This is because GMT positions are for the serious co-oper and require a serious commitment. You are not obligated to live in OSCA as a GMT member.

No person may jump the wait list into Third World Co-op. GMT, staff and committee coordinators who are interested in Third World Co-op must apply to be members of this co-op. Due to the nature of the safe space for people of color, minority, and low income students, the membership of Third World Co-op chooses its own membership. You may pick up applications in the OSCA office or at Third World Co-op.

Work hours and co-op credit:

Because All OSCA staff, committee coordinators, and GMT often fulfill more than a regular amount of hours of work per week, they receive credit in their co-op. Most positions are full credit. This means all your co-op work credits are fulfilled by your OSCA position except one crew a week. Some positions are half credit which still require you to sign up for hours on your co-op’s workchart. Check the job description to see if you are applying for a full or half credit position. Time aid cannot be used for all OSCA credit hours. Time aid must be worked out with your individual co-op and the hours you would do there.

$$$?:

Other than a few GMT positions (the Officers, Operations Managers, Cleanliness & Maintenance Coordinators, Housing Coordinator, OSCA/OC Liaison), all-OSCA positions do not receive any monetary compensation for work done (just lots of good experience and loving!). All-OSCA positions do not receive a break or reduction in their OSCA bill with the exception that HLEC’s do receive a single for the price of a double.

Interview process:

You will be asked to sign up for an interview time. Interviews are open for any OSCA member, but must have at least three (3) people including the outgoing staff, committee, or GMT of the position being interviewed, the supporting GMT person, and one other OSCA member. Although informal in dress and setting, interviews are expected to be conducted in a business-like fashion. Expect friendly, relaxed interviewers, but “real” questions.

Questions and concerns:

If you have further questions about OSCA selection procedure or appointments policy please contact the Personnel Committee at x58108. If you feel the appointments process, was in any way not followed appropriately, please also call the Personnel Committee at x58108.

Continue to the Staff Application.