Job Title: Tutor (Embedded Tutor)
PVN ID: LE-2002-003543
Category: Instruction and Social Service
Location: LEHMAN COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

Lehman College is seeking Academic Tutors (embedded tutors) for a recently awarded 5-year grant: Pathways to Student STEM Success (PTS3): Using High Impact Practices to Improve STEM Enrollment, Retention, Transfer and Graduation. The Academic Tutors would assist our STEM students in the areas of biology, chemistry and physics.  The candidate would be embedded in the classroom.  The successful candidate would also hold office hours when necessary for individual tutoring sessions.

About the Pathways to Student STEM Success Program (PTS3)

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; master 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).

Other Duties

  • Work closely with the classroom professor
  • Provide content and skill development to all students
  • Create a tutoring schedule convenient to both the professor and the student
  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of each tutoring session
  • Maintain confidentiality of all student information shared during each session
  • Ensure students grasp key concepts for assignments and exams.
  • Provide office hours when necessary 

Qualifications

  • Must be a current Lehman College student
  • Have a minimum GPA of 3.0
  • Knowledge of Biology, Chemistry and/or Physics
  • Prior coursework completed in Biology, Chemistry and/or Physics
  • Have a flexible work schedule

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
School of Natural and Social Sciences/Pa
Status
Part Time
Pay Range
$15.00-$15.00
Hour(s) a week
2.00-10.00
Closing Date
Apr 24, 2020 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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