Teaching Assistant (Hourly)

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Teaching Assistant (Hourly)

Job Description Summary:

To assist in classrooms

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Performs administrative duties for a department in support of faculty, staff, and/or student efforts, including examining and answering correspondence, processing and prioritizing office communications, processing mail, answering the telephone and email, arranging conference calls, and maintaining or coordinating the supervisor's schedule.

• Communicates program information and assists students.

• Performs clerical duties including correspondence, ordering supplies and equipment, maintaining files, processing mail, and duplication.

• Gathers, compiles, and enters data, producing routine and specialized reports and documents; maintains files, records, logs, and other tracking systems.

• May design and produce handouts, fliers, newsletters, brochures, manuals or other documents; may maintain or update webpages or use social media.

• Responds to and/or directs inquiries in person or on the telephone; accesses and works with other staff to assist in resolving issues from students, employees, and the public.

• Maintains schedules, calendars, and appointments, which may include scheduling department meetings and events, issuing invitations, arranging for location and equipment, typing minutes, and preparing information packets.

• Compiles and produces routine reports or documents.

• May input budget figures, prepares requisitions, logs and tracks expenditures, takes payments, or issues invoices or bills.

• May serve as a technical resource for computer hardware and software and other office equipment such as copiers and fax machines.

• May be assigned responsibility for special projects such as scheduling rooms, compiling information packets, creating spreadsheets, charts, and graphs, and other projects.

Knowledge

• Office procedures and practices.

• Customer service techniques.

• Basic bookkeeping procedures.

Skills

• Maintaining an established work schedule.

• Establishing and maintaining effective internal and external relationships.

• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.

• Effectively using interpersonal and communication skills.

• Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.

• Entering data, maintaining files, and performing other clerical duties.

• Effective customer-orientation when working with a diverse population.

Technology Skills

• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.

• May also use social media, work with desktop publishing, and update webpages.

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