Learning Center Specialist
Job Duties
This full-time, 12-month position is responsible for the development, coordination, and continuous improvement of tutoring services that support student academic success. This position oversees the recruitment, hiring, training, supervision, and evaluation of student tutors while ensuring tutoring services align with best practices in higher education learning support.
The Learning Center Specialist collaborates with faculty, staff, and departmental leadership to assess student learning needs, enhance tutor effectiveness, and provide high-quality academic support services, including oversight of tutoring labs, embedded tutoring, and group tutoring initiatives.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Meets with students for intake and general assessment and makes referrals to others on campus as appropriate
- May participate in strategic planning and grant proposals for instructional development, new teaching methods, and program direction
- May supervise the day-to-day activities of work unit employees involved in instructional support
- Works to develop and/or design curriculum and/or techniques for instruction in a disciplinary area and suggests new ways of effective instruction within that discipline
- Assists in defining the objectives of the program and plays a major role in carrying out program duties
- Assesses learner performance and may prepare reports recommending instructional improvements
- Develops teaching techniques that enhance course effectiveness in alignment with desired outcomes and established strategy and may train other staff in use of said instructional techniques
- Provides supplemental instruction for students enrolled in classroom, online, and/or laboratory courses in a variety of formats such as one-on-one sessions, group sessions, peer mentor sessions, and seminars
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