Job Title: Academic Coach
PVN ID: LE-1610-001455
Category: Instruction and Social Service
Location: LEHMAN COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

STEM Academic Coach

Lehman College is seeking STEM Academic Coaches for a recently awarded 5-year grant: Pathways to Student STEM Success: Using High Impact Practices to Improve STEM Enrollment, Retention, Transfer and Graduation. Academic coaches will focus on helping small groups of students to develop highly effective habits related to strategic thinking, problem solving, oral communication, and presentation skills.  They will also work with faculty and staff to foster relationships and cross-campus support for their cohort of STEM students.

Pathways to Student STEM Success (PTS3) is a coherent and collaborative program that will engage senior and community college students in activities designed to build their social and cultural capital through: intensive advisement; mastery of academic content and skills; and participation in STEM activities that are central to STEM interest, efficacy, and success. PTS3 will also address administrative barriers that plague transfer students through joint planning and collaborative implementation with Bronx Community College (BCC) and Hostos Community College (HCC).

General Description:

  • Must have an overall 3.0 GPA
  • Work with a diverse population of students individually or in groups
  • Attend required trainings, meetings, and workshops in order to maintain and increase coaching effectiveness and proficiency
  • Meet individually with students weekly or bi-weekly to assess and address learning strengths and challenges in such areas as note taking, time management, test preparation, research, active studying, social adjustment, coping and stress management, etc.
  • Assist students in developing short and long-term academic plans
  • Knowledgeable of resources on campus to support student success and refer as needed
  • Track student participation using the ISSP’s Tutortrac software
  • Develop program materials
  • Fulfill other responsibilities as outlined by the STEM Academic Support Coordinator/ISSP Director/Staff Team Leader

Other Duties

Qualifications

  • 45 or more credits earned preferred
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Good organizational skills
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.

RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
Status
Part Time
Pay Range
$12.00-$15.00
Hour(s) a week
9.00-15.00
Closing Date
Dec 18, 2016 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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