Employment Opportunities

Help prepare high school students for college by working with Upward Bound Programs at Penn State. Consider joining Upward Bound Programs by exploring job opportunities that may apply your knowledge to the success of the program's goals and services.

Summer Positions

Each summer Upward Bound Programs (UBP) seeks talented and motivated instructors who are interested in developing their leadership skills while engaging in academic and social activities with high school students from June through July.

Successful candidates will help staff the UBP Summer Academy for Creative Studies which hosts students during a six-week experience, offering participants a taste of college life, as well as assistance with academic courses and leadership development.

Available positions are typically posted from April till June each year and are shown below.

Upward Bound Programs Part-Time Program Residential Mentor

Upward Bound Programs (UBP), which includes Upward Bound Altoona (UBA) and Clairton & McKeesport (UBCM), is hosting a 2025 Summer Academy and is seeking five talented and motivated summer Residential Mentors (RMs) who are interested in developing their leadership and mentoring skills while engaging in academic and social activities with approximately 40 students from Altoona, Clairton, & McKeesport High Schools. The Summer Academy will operate from June 15 through August 1.

University Park, PA

In-person

Part-time

Work-Study Positions

Available positions are typically posted in August for the coming fall and spring semesters.

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Staff Positions

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