We are looking to expand our team of interactors with a bi/multilingual interactor, who will puppeteer student and stakeholders avatars in education-related scenarios with a multilingual avatar. The ideal candidate will have a background in acting and improvisation performance. This person should also be comfortable with ever-evolving technology and be bilingual in English and Spanish.
- Consistently deliver scenarios in an accurate, reliable, and professional manner in alignment with stated learning objectives
- Portray a variety of perspectives using Mursion's Proprietary technology
- Facilitate reflection and debrief with diverse learner populations in alignment with stated learning objectives
- Promote and provide excellent customer service when interacting with learners including welcoming learners, answering questions, providing information in a courteous manner across diverse learner populations
- Proactively and effectively organize and manage simulation schedule
- Attend mandatory trainings and meetings with clients and team
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.
Required
H.S. Diploma
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree
- Bi-lingual (Spanish) skills are required
- Substantial acting or improvisational experience.
- A mastery of their actor's instrument: voice, body, and imagination
- Strong verbal communication skills and clear diction
- Experience in and familiarity with education preferred
- Experience with gaming technology preferred
Expectations & Technical Requirements:
- Applicants must have room for the equipment provided for the position.
- Applicants must have a quiet environment within their home to deliver simulations.
- Applicants must have the ability to connect equipment to an internet router with an ethernet cord.
- Applicants must have high speed internet.
This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location. The balance of in-person and remote work for this position will be discussed at the time of hire.
Terminal appointment.
This position has the possibility to be extended based on need and/or funding.
Minimum $28.00 HOURLY
Depending on Qualifications
In 2023, the Wisconsin Center for Education established a simulation lab, where we study how preservice school professionals (teachers, nurses, teachers for students special and multilingual needs) learn and how they develop skills in serving students and other stakeholders. Simulating school scenarios is an innovative approach to providing professionals-in-training with the opportunity to practice learned skills in real-life scenarios.
Housed within the School of Education, the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), established in 1964, is one of the first, most productive, and largest university-based education research and development centers in the world. WCER's researchers and staff work to make teaching and learning as effective as possible for all ages and all people.
WCER's mission is to improve educational outcomes for diverse student populations, impact education practice positively and foster collaborations among academic disciplines and practitioners. To this end, our center helps scholars and practitioners develop, submit, conduct, and share grant-funded education research.
At WCER, all employees share five fundamental organization values to guide the purpose and quality of our work and interactions within ourselves and our outside stakeholders. The values that the work and people of WCER strive to uphold are:
- Innovation and Excellence. Continuous improvement is a driver for excellence. We innovate and improve in our work to advance education through leading research and development.
- Equitable Education. Equitable education is essential to a healthy society. We aim to reverse imbalances and injustices in education through our work.
- Affirming and Increasing Diversity. Individual differences and group diversity inspire creative and equitable outcomes. We actively affirm and seek to increase such diversity in our center.
- Healthy Workplace. The well-being of our workplace enhances success for all. We commit to a workplace based on mutual respect and transparency.
- Partnering Across Differences. Diverse backgrounds and expertise improve the quality of our work. We collaborate across disciplines, methodologies, organizations, and communities to strengthen our research and development outcomes.
If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability during the recruitment process, please email education-HR.DDR@education.wisc.edu and one of our Division Disability Representatives will contact you. More information can also be found at https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/.
Please click on the "Apply Now" button to start the application process. As part of the application process, you will be required to submit:
- A cover letter addressed to Mariana Castro describing how your experience and qualifications meet the requirements of this position
- A current resume
- A list with the contact information of at least three professional references
- a 1 minute recording of previous acting experience or recording of monologue in character
A successful applicant will be responsible for ensuring eligibility for employment in the United States on or before the effective date of the appointment.
Becky Ohan
bsohan@wisc.edu
608-262-5158
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