Please include the following additional documents with your application:
Resume
Cover Letter
Unofficial Transcripts
Two Letters of Reccomendation
Compensation Type:
Non-Exempt
Employment Type:
Temporary (Fixed Term)
Grade:
NE02
Position Summary
The Tutoring Program at San Juan College has openings for individuals interested in working with a diverse group of colleagues who want to make a difference in the lives of students and grow professionally. Applicants must be committed to helping students from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. Work schedule to be arranged. Weekend, evening, online tutoring, and branch campus hours may be assigned.
Responsibilities
Duties & Responsibilities:
A tutor’s primary responsibility is to assist students in learning and understanding course material within the tutor’s content area(s), with the goal of helping the student become an independent and self-reliant learner. A tutor is expected to perform duties face-to-face and remotely.
Tutors most commonly work with individual students, but should be prepared to work with small groups of students as well. Tutors are not instructors and cannot be left alone in a classroom with students without direction from Tutoring Center management. However, they may be embedded/assigned to assist in one or more sections of a course as well as delivering homework and test prep to help those students.
All tutors are evaluated at minimum once each semester on multiple things including: length of employment, CRLA level, level of education or training, number of subjects able to tutor, whether the tutor complies with the Tutoring Center and San Juan College policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Requirements
Qualifications Required:
• Advanced knowledge in their discipline of interest as demonstrated by:
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Associate’s degree or higher level of education, or
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Specific certification essential for the job, or
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Equivalent/specialized experience, such as language fluency/proficiency at an academic level
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Successful completion of courses in the discipline
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Two (2) recommendations from faculty or previous employer
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Good communication skills in terms of providing students with academic tutoring assistance required.
Nice to have
• Preferred:
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GPA of at least 3.0 in the courses tutored (must have received a “B” in the classes tutored)
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Experience in teaching or tutoring in a multi-cultural environment
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Experience teaching in secondary or post-secondary settings
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Experience teaching college level courses in writing, foreign languages, science, business, or math
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Knowledge of different learning preferences and experience with students of diverse learning abilities.
For any questions or more information, feel free to stop by the Tutoring Center (room 1611), or contact (505) 566-3981.
Legal
EEO STATEMENT: San Juan College is dedicated to providing equal employment and educational opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, genetic, veteran’s status, or on the basis of any other category protected under federal, state and local laws.