Specialist, Supplemental Instruction Recruiter/Advisor

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse 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:

• Reflects the diversity of our community

• 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 under-represented populations

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and underrepresented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.

ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body as an open-access and low-cost institution. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to our students' diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Specialist, Supplemental Instruction Recruiter/Advisor

Job Description Summary:

To select, mentor, train, and evaluate the work of Supplemental Instruction (SI) Leaders; advise Austin Community College (ACC) students as necessary; recommend Supplemental Instruction sections; schedule, support, and train a team of SI Mentors; and perform tasks to help maintain and develop the SI programs districtwide.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

1) Recruits, recommends for hire, observes and mentors the hourly SI Leaders.
2) Plans, conducts, and facilitates ongoing training sessions in conjunction with SI team for incoming SI Leaders.
3) Identifies high risk courses and makes recommendations for SI courses, faculty, and securing instructional resources for SI at assigned region (North, Central, South).
4) Recommends revisions pertaining to the development of training materials for program, compiles data, prepares reports and evaluations.
5) Advertises and represents the SI program at internal and external college functions at assigned region (North, Central, South).
6) Creates internal SI marketing materials and updates the Google sites.
7) Provides academic advising to student SI Leaders and students completing SI sessions.
8) Assists the SI Manager in planning and preparation of SI sessions using a wide variety of the identified strategies.
9) Assists and provides instruction to SI Leaders on how to create session handouts and flyers; and gives final approval on handouts to be used in credit sections at assigned region (North, Central, South).
10) Serves as a primary liaison with departmental administrators and faculty members, addresses questions from the faculty. Facilitates communication between faculty and SI Leaders, as needed.
11) Determines appropriate times and scheduling of SI sessions and makes and confirms arrangements for facilities for SI sessions at assigned region (North, Central, South).
12) Models appropriate professional attitudes and behaviors to SI staff, students, and others on and off campus.

13) Oversees the SI Hub and compiles attendance data in the SI Google Drive.

14) Schedules, trains, and supports a team of SI Mentors.

15) Facilitates training with a team of SI Mentors.

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