POSITION TITLE: Director of the Academic Coaching Center / Assistant Professor
DATE: 2024 – Start date on or before September 1, 2024
DEPARTMENT: Academic Affairs
REPORTS DIRECTLY TO: Dean of Student Success and Retention
SUMMARY: The Director of the Academic Coaching Center / Assistant Professor will oversee the Academic Coaching Center. The mission of the Academic Coaching Center is to empower students to take ownership of their college experience and help them reach their full academic potential. Academic Coaches guide students to develop the skills, mindset, and knowledge for academic, professional, and personal success by offering them holistic support through individual coaching sessions, success skills workshops, specialized training, and community events.
NATURE AND SCOPE: The Director will typically teach two courses per semester and will work closely with the Dean of Student Academic Support Services and Retention, the Director of the Writing Center and the Director of the Student Success Center. The ideal candidate must have organizational skills to promote collaboration and teamwork within SASS, the learning community and the campus; provide evidence of effective communication and interpersonal skills, sensitivity to and understanding of academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disabilities and ethnic backgrounds of a diverse student body.
SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- teaching the equivalent of six credits per semester (2/2 course load) first-year writing courses.
- recruit, train, and supervise undergraduate and graduate student workers and interns.
- help to develop and assess Student Academic Support Services (SASS) goals and programming.
- provide diagnostic and remediation strategies to assess and develop academic success plans for high-risk students.
- collaborate with related departments and personnel.
- work closely with the Director of the Student Success Center and the Director of the Writing Center to develop programing that reinforces and supplements work done in the classroom and support student academic success
- work closely with the Coordinator of Student Academic Support Services to support. student workers, develop academic support programing, and assess initiatives.
- evaluate academic success initiatives and present data-informed solutions.
- coordinate the academic coaching program.
- serve as an academic coach for both undergraduate and graduate students.
- provide professional tutoring serves for students as needed.
- maintain a campus presence of at least four days a week (when classes are in session)
- conduct student advising and recruitment, college and department committee work,
- attend Faculty Assembly and Faculty meetings, orientation sessions, faculty professional development days.
- demonstrate flexibility to teach courses on ground and/or online as required.
- perform other duties assigned by the Dean of Student Academic Support Services and Retention.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Applicants must have earned a graduate degree (Ph.D. strongly preferred) in Rhetoric and Composition, basic Writing Studies, Composition Pedagogy, or a related field.
Preferred qualifications include: experience teaching composition to struggling and underprepared student writers; knowledge of current composition theory and practice; demonstrated potential for successful research and publication; experience supporting a diverse student population, including multilingual and first-generation student writers; strengths in strategic planning, leadership, budgeting, and management; and comfort with technology.
