Associate Director, Marks Family Writing Center

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Posted Job Title

Associate Director, Marks Family Writing Center

Job Profile Title

Associate Director C, Academic Affairs, Academic Center

Job Description Summary

The Associate Director of the Marks Family Writing Center, a division of the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing, is responsible for hiring, supervising, scheduling, and training our 50-60 undergraduate writing fellows in peer-tutoring theory and practice. The Associate Director will teach the advanced writing seminar for tutor development and first-year Critical Writing Seminars.

Job Description

Established in 2003 to provide writing support to Penn students and faculty across the disciplines, the Marks Family Writing Center is a division of the broader Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing. The Writing Center is open to Penn undergraduates six days a week. In addition to providing individual writing guidance and feedback to our students, the Marks Family Writing Center also presents writing workshops across campus, consults with faculty and assists them with designing and responding to writing assignments, and engages in community outreach. 

Responsibilities:

The Associate Director of the Marks Family Writing Center, a division of the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing, is responsible for hiring, supervising, scheduling, and training our 50-60 undergraduate writing fellows in peer-tutoring theory and practice to ensure the Writing Center is appropriately staffed and resourced to meet the needs of our undergraduate students through in-person, one-on-one, or group tutoring sessions as well as embedded Writing Fellows in our Critical Writing seminars. The Associate Director participates as needed i