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Anna Maria College - Paxton, MA
posted 4 days ago
About the position
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. 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.
Responsibilities
- Teaching the equivalent of six credits per semester (2/2 course load) first-year writing courses.
- Recruiting, training, and supervising undergraduate and graduate student workers and interns.
- Helping to develop and assess Student Academic Support Services (SASS) goals and programming.
- Providing diagnostic and remediation strategies to assess and develop academic success plans for high-risk students.
- Collaborating with related departments and personnel.
- Working closely with the Director of the Student Success Center and the Director of the Writing Center to develop programming that reinforces and supplements work done in the classroom and supports student academic success.
- Working closely with the Coordinator of Student Academic Support Services to support student workers, develop academic support programming, and assess initiatives.
- Evaluating academic success initiatives and presenting data-informed solutions.
- Coordinating the academic coaching program.
- Serving as an academic coach for both undergraduate and graduate students.
- Providing professional tutoring services for students as needed.
- Maintaining a campus presence of at least four days a week (when classes are in session).
- Conducting student advising and recruitment, college and department committee work.
- Attending Faculty Assembly and Faculty meetings, orientation sessions, faculty professional development days.
- Demonstrating flexibility to teach courses on ground and/or online as required.
- Performing other duties assigned by the Dean of Student Academic Support Services and Retention.
Requirements
- Earned a graduate degree (Ph.D. strongly preferred) in Rhetoric and Composition, basic Writing Studies, Composition Pedagogy, or a related field.
Nice-to-haves
- 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.
- Comfort with technology.
