WorkStudy Students

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Work-Study Students
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What is Work-Study?

• As part of their financial aid packet, college
  students can earn a certain amount of money by
  working.
• Most of this money is earned through on-campus
  jobs, but the US Department of Education requires
  that 7 of all work-study funds go to jobs
  serving in community and faith-based
  organizations.
• Schools pay up to 75 of the cost of these
  positions with sites paying as little as 25.

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Advantages of Work-Study

• While the service site pays very little money,
  the student perceives the position as a job.
• For very little you get the commitment of a paid
  staff person!

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Recruitment

• Post job description on www.christianvolunteering.
  org.
• Create individual account.
• On homepage, in the yellow box under
  organizations, click create individual account.
  Fill out this form.
• Create organizational account.
• On account summary click add organization. Fill
  out forms.
• Add opportunity.
• On organization management page click add new
  opportunity.
• At the bottom of this form you can specify local,
  virtual, short-term missions, or work-study.
  Choose work-study.

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Placement

• A student interested in work-study has contacted
  you. Now what?
• Youll need to contact the correct school office.
  Most often this is the financial aid or student
  employment office.

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Steps to setting up work-study

• Have the student find out (from the financial aid
  office) if they definitely qualify for work
  study.
• Interview candidate.
• Get pay rate from college and confirm program /
  site director.
• The school will pay a percentage of the students
  pay (usually between 50-75) and the site will be
  required to pay the rest. The school will also
  want to approve the pay rate, although the site
  has some flexibility with what they want to pay.

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Steps to setting up work-study

• Inform Director of Operations about work study
  hires.
• Fill out required paperwork to register with
  school its different for each school.
• Fill out paperwork for position. Both the program
  / site and the student will need to fill this
  out. See toolkit for sample forms.
• The service site director will need to make sure
  that the student fills out timesheets. She will
  sign them and fax them to the college. Confirm
  that this happens.
• The school will pay the student and bill the site
  for the portion of the students wages.

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The End

• Remember that all of the initial paperwork is
  well worth it!
• Check out the toolkit and appendix for more
  information.
• www.christianvolunteering.org/tmctraining.jsp

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Appendix Faith

• Work-study can be earned at a faith-based
  organization as long as the student is not being
  paid to engage in faith activities (leading
  prayer, teaching Bible, etc.).
• You cant hire work-study students based on
  faith. However, you may target your recruiting to
  faith-based groups.