Careers Job Description
General Description
Lehman’s Step-Up Program supports the transition of all incoming first-time, full-time students during their first year through advising, social and emotional support, and academic support. The Academic Support Coordinator for First Year Students supports the academic needs of students primarily outside of the classroom. This position reports to the grant PIs. The position is a one-year position with the possibility of an additional year extension.
Other Duties
Job Responsibilities
• Manage all aspects of academic support services for STEP UP students, as well as provide one-on-one academic support for first-year students across the disciplines.
• Facilitate general academic foundations workshops on topics including, but not limited to, study skills and time management; strategies for reading difficult texts; preparing for exams; citation and academic style; making an argument; and active listening and notetaking.
• Facilitate English conversation tables for English language learners
• Manage all aspects of academic support for STEP UP students
• Develop professional development that offers academic support staff strategies for effectively supporting STEP UP students
• Work collaboratively with other campus support services to arrange for academic support for STEP UP students
• Creates and maintains program data (utilization of academic support services, for example). Works with appropriate campus offices to assess the effectiveness and impact of program services.
• Leverage technology including EAB Navigate, early alerts and communication tools to monitor students’ success and semester-to-semester persistence; create interventions aimed at reducing stop outs and improving metrics for success and retention
• Develops marketing initiatives and strategies for advertising academic support services to STEP Up students
• Engages in professional development around academic support
• Manages program budget, tracks expenditures
• Facilitates collaboration with faculty to support students’ academic success
• Represent STEP UP at student orientations and other program and college events
• Performs other duties as assigned by the grant PIs
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Education or related major with a minimum of one year of experience in academic support services such as tutoring, academic coaching, Supplemental Instruction (SI), Peer-Led Team Learning or related academic support activities.
• Possess excellent writing skills
• Strong presentation and problem-solving skills
• Ability to adapt to the changing needs of students
• Collaborative and inclusive
• Some evening and weekend hours
• MS Office Skills (Word, PPT and Excel)
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout 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
Key Features
Enrollment Management
Full Time
$66,300.00 - $66,300.00
Mar 04, 2023 (Or Until Filled)