Federal Work Study Program
The Federal Work-Study Program (FWS) is a part-time employment program for students with demonstrated financial need as determined by the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Funding is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis allowing students to earn monies to help pay postsecondary educational expenses. The program encourages community service work and work related to the student's course of study.
Eligibility Requirements:
The following are requirements for a student to be eligible to work through the Federal Work Study program:
- be a US citizen or permanent resident of the US;
- be enrolled at least half-time in a matriculated program at Stockton;
- be in good academic standing;
- not owe a refund on a federal or state educational grant; and
- not be in default on a federal or state educational loan.
How to Indicate your Interest in the Program:
Complete the "Student Worker – Federal Work Study" application through the Office of Human Resources’ PageUp system.
After you have secured an on-campus or off-campus position, you must complete onboarding documentation in this system to be added to Stockton University’s payroll.
If you're offered Federal Work Study Funding:
If you are awarded FWS funding, your financial aid offer notification will be updated to show the amount received in your goStockton Portal.
You will also receive a follow up email with next step instructions on how to look for an on-campus or off-campus job.
Students are responsible for securing their own employment either on campus or off-campus.
**See below for a list of approved FWS Job Titles, Employers & Contacts for the 2026-2027 academic year. **
Tips for Securing Employment:
- Review the FWS Supervisor Contacts below to request an informational interview. Informational interviews are not a formal interview to be considered for a job,
but rather a meeting for you to gather information from a potential employer. Ask
questions about what it is like to work for that specific office/area to see if the
environment is right for you.
- View employment opportunities using the Office of Career Education & Development’s Handshake platform. Here you may review job description details and candidate qualifications for advertised
FWS positions. Apply only if you want to be seriously considered for the position
and want to be contacted for a formal interview.
- As there are a vast number of jobs on and off-campus, we will also post available
positions on this page
- As there are a vast number of jobs on and off-campus, we will also post available
positions on this page
- Dress to impress for any formal interview. Respect the employer’s time by showing
up at least 15 minutes early for your interview.
- Follow up with any potential employer by sending a thank you note/email to show your genuine interest in the position. Correspond in a timely and professional manner.
2026-2027 FWS Job Titles & Descriptions:
Job Title:
Student Operations Assistant- AC CampusJob Description:
Serve as host at the AC Campus; welcoming, assisting, answering phones and/or directing guests at three operations desks throughout the AC Campus. Maintain a working knowledge of the daily activities happening on the AC Campus. Report and record any unusual incidents, injuries, lost and found, damaged properties or emergencies. Other duties as assigned by supervisors.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Title:
Student Worker
Job Description:
Social Media Management: Maintain and update the department's social media platforms (e.g., Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to ensure consistent and engaging communication with students. This includes creating and scheduling content, monitoring engagement, and promoting departmental events and initiatives. Front Desk Support & Student Interaction: Greet and assist students and visitors in a professional and welcoming manner. Provide accurate information about departmental resources, programs, and services. Presentation Development: Design and prepare visually appealing and informative PowerPoint presentations for virtual and in-person events, workshops, and meetings. Ensure presentation materials align with the department’s branding and messaging. Event & Workshop Support: Assist staff with the coordination and logistical planning of departmental workshops, meetings, and AAP-sponsored events. This may include setting up materials, managing attendee check-ins, and providing on-site support during events. Outreach & Tabling Activities: Represent the department at various tabling events on campus. Engage with students, distribute informational materials, and promote programs and services offered by the department. Administrative Support: Perform a variety of clerical and administrative tasks as needed, including data entry, copying, filing, and organizing materials to support the department’s daily operations. Other Duties as Assigned: Provide general assistance to department staff and complete other related tasks as required to ensure the smooth operation of departmental activities.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Title:
Billing Technician
Job Description:
Under the supervision of the Director of Student Accounts and the Assistant Supervisor, the billing technician position will be assigned duties related to the billing cycle, such as: preparing mailings, filing, email communication, text communication, tabling, and conducting phone calls.
Pay Rate:
$17/hour
Contact:
Job Description:
Participate and support in events sponsored by the Career Education & Development. Assist students in navigating our Handshake platform and utilizing the Virtual Career Center; providing guidance on profile completion, job search techniques, and resource utilization. Manage and review job postings, employers, and events on Handshake, ensuring that they meet with guidelines and standards for quality and relevancy. Assist students with one-on-one and group preparation for resumes and cover letters, using online resources, and accessing information on upcoming events and workshops. Develop and/or deliver presentations and workshops on career topics to students as well as student groups. Assist staff with designing, planning projects and programs in alignment with the department mission and vision. Work with CED staff to develop and implement new ways to market the Career Center through various media and activities on campus. Support with assessment and data collection to track and evaluate the effectiveness of career services, resources, and programming. Other duties as assigned.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Description:
Greet and assist students in selecting professional clothing for interviews, career fairs, and other professional events. Maintain cleanliness and organization of the Suit Closet, including sorting, hanging, and displaying clothing and accessories. Assist with intake of clothing donations, including sorting, quality-checking, and processing. Monitor inventory levels and report needs or shortages to supervisor. Develop and post content for Suit Closet marketing campaigns across social media platforms, flyers, and campus communication channels. Collaborate with CED staff to coordinate promotions, events, and outreach efforts. Track data on student usage, inventory, and donations. Provide excellent customer service, ensuring all visitors feel welcome and supported. Assist with special events and pop-up Career Suit Closet initiatives as needed.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Description:
Update all social media accounts semesterly (office information, hours, staff pictures, etc.). Schedule social media posts via Facebook and Instagram to build viewer relationships, promote events and services, and connect strategically with other social media partners to cross-promote. Monitor daily the “social media” folder of the “career services” email account for professional staff social media requests. Create and schedule social media posts in coordination with the office’s monthly marketing calendar. Create and Promote events through Handshake. Coordinate and create semesterly social media promotional events (e.g., Working Wednesday). Respond to comments and inquiries received via social media accounts (immediately report inappropriate activity to professional staff members). Interface with CED staff and ambassadors to integrate social media. activities with other office services and events. Manage Facebook photo albums to include pictorial records of events (EIR, Information Tables, Career Fairs, etc.). Create flyers and graphics via Canva to promote events and services. Analyze and run social media metrics reports when requested.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Title:
Student Worker
Job Description:
This student worker position will perform clerical duties such as answering phones, greeting office visitors, and assisting with projects. Students may also be asked to visit other offices to deliver materials.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Title:
Student Assistant
Job Description:
Proactively maintain inventory, which includes but is not limited to: stocking shelves, ensuring all products are always available for visitors, checking expiration dates and rotating both perishable and non-perishable inventory to follow FIFO practices. Assisting with receiving deliveries and unloading orders. Gathering and transporting donations from various locations on campus. Ensuring that the pantry and all storage items are neat, tidy, and adhering to food safety guidelines. Proactively use internal management systems (inventory, logs, etc.) to report unavailable items and document required and requested information. Greet and document all visitors with a commitment to fostering a welcoming, judgement-free environment. Encourage visitors’ adherence to quantity limits and address or escalate violations of signage and established pantry guidelines. Assist with signature Program events and various collections. Represent Program and office at various events as needed, such as through tabling. Attend all mandatory strategic area and Program trainings and meetings. Other duties as assigned.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Title:
Wellness Peer Educator
Job Description:
Work an average of 5 hours per week (budget permitting) to assist the Health Educator with Wellness Center workshops, outreach initiatives, and events, which may include some evening and weekend hours. Develop, promote, and facilitate educational programs, workshops, and outreach activities addressing current health and wellness topics relevant to the campus community. Communicate effectively with students, faculty, staff, and community partners while providing health education, Wellness Center information, and appropriate referrals to campus and community resources. Collaborate as part of a peer education team to plan, implement, and evaluate programming and outreach efforts. Assist Wellness Center staff with health promotion campaigns, special events, prevention initiatives, and campus-wide educational efforts. Demonstrate professionalism, leadership, teamwork, inclusivity, ethical responsibility, and effective communication skills in all peer educator activities and interactions. Attend and actively participate in mandatory weekly staff meetings, planning meetings, one-on-one meetings, trainings, peer educator office hours, programs, and events. Complete and successfully pass the online Certified Peer Educator (CPE) training and exam through the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). Utilize communication, leadership, critical thinking, professionalism, teamwork, and career readiness skills consistent with the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) competencies framework.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Description:
The LAP Access Advocate, under the supervision of LAP staff will be responsible for the following: Lead workshops on multiple topics, such as note taking skills, handling test anxiety, and time management; weekly tabling events promoting our Access Advocacy Program and the Learning Access Program; outreach to student groups to encourage accessible event planning, universal design, and inclusion; develop and lead presentations for student leaders; promote accessibility software to the Stockton community; provide training as needed; assist with answering telephone calls for the Learning Access Program and Counseling and Psychological Services as needed; other duties as assigned.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Description:
The Learning Access Program Graduate Coordinator will be responsible for the following: answer telephone calls for Learning Access Program and Counseling and Psychological Services; field incoming calls requesting appointments and answering questions regarding services such as classroom and accommodated housing accommodations; proctor various tests, including but not limited to those in the testing center, those needing a reader and/or scribe, and those utilizing adaptive technology; maintain confidentiality and security of all testing materials; create and lead workshops on transitioning skills with guidance from program coordinators; assist with marketing efforts for the Learning Access Program; assist in the maintenance of the Wellness Center website and portal; participate in the development, coordination, and facilitation of student training; other work as assigned by supervisor.
Pay Rate:
$18/hour
Contact:
Job Title:
Student Assistant
Job Description:
Serves as first point of contact and triage for visitors to the Office of the Dean of Students. Answers phone calls, connecting callers to appropriate staff and offices. Assist with light trouble shooting of student, faculty and campus community issues (providing general information). Assist with university programming conducted by the Advocacy, Belonging, and Campus Standards area. All other duties as assigned by professional staff.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Title:
Program Assistant
Job Description:
Ensure timely attendance and preparation including, but not limited to, work shift and staff meetings. Provide confidential support to direct Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs staff and divisional senior leadership. Provide reception, triage, and administrative assistance via email correspondence, answering phones, print/copy/scan, and written reports/memos. Assist with the planning, coordination, and execution of small and/or large-scale programs/events/initiatives. Design materials for events, social media, and presentations. Prepare, organize, and maintain accurate documents and spreadsheets. Assist with processing of incoming and outgoing mail, in addition sorting and distributing mail to personnel within the office. Conduct research, assist with development of assessment, evaluation and reports that are related to division-wide strategic priorities. Assist maintenance of accurate inventory logs, files and physical spaces. Assist with updates to newsletters, websites, social media accounts (e.g., Facebook, Instagram), and campus’ student success technology platforms (e.g., Osprey Navigate, other Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools). Prepare material for meetings including agendas, printed documents, and reports; orders and coordinates delivery of refreshments as directed. Respond in a timely manner; for urgent matters, advise necessary personnel immediately in consultation with immediate supervisor, as needed. Provide recommendations to improve office operations and student support. Assist with all other duties assigned by supervisor or designee.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Title:
Special Collections Student Assistant
Job Description:
Student aides provide excellent customer service for researchers in the Reading Room by greeting researchers, checking them in, and paging materials for researchers’ use. Assist staff with researching answers to questions relating to the university’s history or South Jersey using materials from the collections. Digitize materials and record information about the files to answer questions or create digital collections. Sort documents and create inventory lists to make collections easier to find and use.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Description:
Perform signing-out and signing-in of media production equipment to students. Prepare and deliver equipment to proper classes in line with professional staff guidance. Properly shut down and secure facilities (computer lab, equipment room) during evening close. Assist with inventory checks and general maintenance of media production equipment.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Title:
Student Worker
Job Description:
Student workers are responsible for answering phones, greeting students and other visitors to the office. May assist with electronic filing, scanning, shredding, and special requests from faculty under staff supervision. Other office duties as assigned.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Description:
The Front Desk Student Worker will be greeting visitors and directing them to appropriate staff. Directing incoming phone calls and taking appropriate messages. Sorting/Organizing paperwork, including handling confidential material. Organizing/retrieving mail from the mailroom and other campus offices. Carrying out other office duties and special projects as assigned. Depending on interest/skillset, there may also be an opportunity for social media management/engagement.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Description:
The Tutoring Center Student Worker will be responsible for greeting faculty and students, answering telephones, making copies, registering students to match them up with a tutor. All other duties assigned.
Pay Rate:
$16.25/hour
Contact:
Job Description:
Animal husbandry, enclosure maintenance and sanitation for a variety of reptiles, amphibians, mice, rats, aquariums, and invertebrates. Record keeping that includes Excel data entry. Follow all IACUC safety protocols for handling animals, chemicals, and equipment.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Description:
Student will be responsible for day-to-day maintenance of the greenhouse-picking up leaves, sweeping and mopping the floor, cleaning and repotting plants, watering greenhouse and hallway plants, cleaning bugs, repotting, maintain inventory of supplies and plant inventories.
Pay Rate:
$16.25/hour
Contact:
Job Description:
Work with Media and Web Specialist to manage brand and marketing initiatives within the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NAMS). Undertake daily administrative tasks to ensure the functionality and coordination of marketing and recruitment initiatives. Development of social media content for the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Opportunities to Interview students/faculty/staff/alumni and write articles for the NAMS annual e-zine. Assist in the organizing of promotional events and traditional or digital campaigns. Assist in the development of social activities/events for current NAMS students. Perform other projects and duties as assigned by the marketing manager.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
Job Title:
Strategic Communications Worker
Job Description:
The University Relations & Marketing Strategic Communications Worker is responsible for performing public relations and news writing responsibilities as well as social media and digital communication-related functions. Cover select on-campus events for Stockton.edu, including writing news articles. Create dynamic content for Stockton University’s official social media platforms. Establish timelines, content and strategy for social media awareness campaigns targeting Stockton students, including designing graphics for Stockton social media. Create and maintain a content calendar to plan and schedule posts for social media platforms. Take photos at university events for social media and the website.
Pay Rate:
$16/hour
Contact:
After You've Secured Employment:
Once you've secured employment, you will notify the Office of Financial Aid of your employment by emailing fws@stockton.edu
All Federal Work Study (FWS) forms are now electronic. Once we receive notification of a student's employment, we will send the student an email with instructions on how to access and complete the process, including the Student Employment Form. After completing all required forms and processes, the student may begin working.
Once you begin working, either you or your supervisor will need to input your hours worked into Web Time Entry (WTE) every two weeks. You will be paid biweekly via direct deposit.
Both the student and employer share the responsibility of monitoring FWS earnings to ensure that the award limit is not exceeded. You may earn up to half of your offer during the fall semester and the remaining award during the spring semester.
Participating in the FWS program has allowed me to gain meaningful work experience that I will use in the future. Through my FWS job, I have developed professional skills and learned how to work with all kinds of people in all different types of situations.
Federal Work Study Student
Through the Federal Work Study program, I've been able to earn money while living on-campus as well as make connections and build my resume. I love the opportunities that come from being a part of the program and the freedom of being able to walk straight from class to work!
Federal Work Study Student
Federal Work Study FAQ's:
You must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) each year and have unmet financial need. Unmet financial need is determined by the amount of grants, scholarships, and subsidized loan eligibility you may already receive. Federal Work Study (FWS) eligibility may change if you receive additional financial aid after being offered FWS funds. If this happens, you will receive a revised offer notification in your email and your financial aid offer notification will be updated within your goStockton Portal.
More information on how to indicate interest in the FWS program is coming soon!
Federal Work Study awards are no more than $4,000 for the academic year ($2,000 per semester) if you are a full-time student. Awards for part-time students are pro-rated based on enrollment.
You will be paid on a bi-weekly basis after reporting your hours worked in the university’s Web Time Entry system. Your Federal Work Study supervisor will instruct you on how to access your timesheet to report your hours worked. Then work study earnings will be directly deposited into the U.S. bank account of your choice.
You may only hold one FWS position at any given time.
Yes, Federal Work Study (FWS) students may not work more than 20 hours per week/40 hours per pay period. You and your FWS supervisor are responsible for keeping track of all hours worked. Once you have earned all your FWS funds, your FWS assignment will end.
Any Federal Work Study funds that are unearned by the end of the semester are forfeited. FWS funds do not rollover from one semester to the next.
You may use this payroll tracking worksheet to keep track of how many hours you have worked and how many hours you have remaining for the semester.
• Students who work 5 or more hours in a shift must take a minimum 30 minute break
• Students who are not enrolled full time (12 credits) per semester will have their
FWS award pro-rated
• Students will earn the NJ minimum wage rate set forth in N.J.A.C.12:56-3.1 and accrue
Personal Time Off (PTO)
per the Stockton Human Resources Policy
• Students may work a maximum of 20 hours per week
• Students will not exceed their maximum award per semester as shown in their financial
aid offer
• A student's FWS earnings will not be applied directly to their tuition account
In order to remain employed under the program, students must:
• Perform a satisfactory job and cooperate with the particular department’s procedures
• Adhere to work schedules
• Inform their supervisor of absences in advance if possible. If unable, inform as
early as possible on the
day of their absence
• Notify the Office of Financial Aid when intending to terminate their employment
as well as
the department/employer for which they work
If the student fails to work and adhere to the good job practices as stated above, their employment will be terminated.
A student job is an employment opportunity, which gives you, experience in the work place and your supervisor is a potential reference when you seek employment after leaving Stockton. Therefore, it is your responsibility to:
- Report to work on time and with regularity, calling in personally if you will be tardy or absent;
- Perform your job satisfactorily, maintaining the same standards of conduct as any regular, full-time employee;
- Assume the responsibilities attached to the position for the entire FWS period, but if circumstances necessitate a job change, notify the Office of Financial Aid. You should give your supervisor at least two weeks notice;
- Complete your Web Time Entry (WTE) on a regular basis as directed by your supervisor;
- Act in a professional manner concerning the confidentiality of information, which comes to you through your assignment.
You are also responsible for maintaining your schoolwork and not letting your job interfere with academics. However, recent studies show that academics are enhanced by students who have committed themselves to a part-time job because they acquire excellent time management and organizational skills.
As a FWS student, you have certain rights as follows:
- You have the right to choose your position in the department of your choice if several offers of employment are presented;
- You have the right to know the specified period of employment and the hourly salary rate prior to being hired;
- You have the right to see a written job description before accepting any position;
- You have the right to information concerning any hazardous substances and potential exposure in that workplace;
- You have the right to expect fair and equal treatment from your supervisors
Your supervisor is the key person in all communications that involve your work. You should bring any problems or concerns to his/her immediate attention. If the two of you cannot resolve the problem you should contact the Financial Aid Office to discuss your concerns.
