MSAjax pageLoad within jQuery

Question

I'm a frontend dev working on a ASP.NET project but need some sort of javascript call back for everytime an update panel fires.

Due to a package we are using, the method fired needs to be within a jQuery ready function so that we have access to all dom elements.

However, the following code does not get called when it is within jQuery ready:

function pageLoad(){ alert('page loaded!') }

But this does work when outside of jQuery.

Anything I can do to get this pageLoad method to call inside jQuery?

Heres what I thought would work:

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    function pageLoad(sender, args) {
        console.log("test");
    }
});