"Professional Criminal Justice/Law Tutor, 2025"

Company Description

Monroe Community College is a unit of the State University of New York (SUNY) and is one of only nineteen community colleges across North America selected for board membership in the League for Innovation in the Community College. Founded in 1961, MCC prides itself on providing an affordable, quality education for more than 12,000 students in the Rochester area. MCC is a large institution offering over 100 programs across two main campuses, two specialized centers, and various community sites.

Monroe Community College expects and upholds equity, inclusion, and a sense of belonging in our educational programs, policies, campus life, employment, and community involvement. We believe that diversity enriches our lives and leads to understanding and appreciation of our differences and commonalities. In order to achieve academic and institutional excellence, we actively recruit, engage, and retain students, faculty, staff, and community partners who represent the diversity of our region, nation, and world. The College welcomes candidates who are committed to MCC's mission of access and academic excellence and a desire to work in a diverse and dynamic environment.

Job Description

Functions and Purpose of the Position: Reporting to the Director of Learning Support Systems, Professional Tutors are staff who work with students to help them to develop effective learning strategies and to become self-regulated learners. These tutors help students with discipline-specific content.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Foster the development of independent, intentional learners
• Help students understand and use effective learning strategies.
• Develop and nurture rapport with students, peers, and faculty.
• Collaborate with faculty on providing workshops and in setting tutoring expectations.
• Adhere to tutoring center protocol and tutoring expectations as outlined in the Tutor Handbook.
• Promote critical thinking and problem solving.
• Help to identify and fill learning gaps with discipline specific content.
• Help students understand our learning management system (Blackboard)
• Prepare students for exams and quizzes.
• Provide tutor assistance in the areas of: Intro to Law, Intro to Criminal Justice, Constitutional Law (Legal brief writing), Criminal Law, Juvenile Justice, Criminal Investigations

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Visit classrooms, as needed, to introduce students to tutoring.

MCC Expectations:

• Adheres to the College Code of Conduct.
• Contributes to, supports, and maintains an equitable, inclusive, and collaborative College environment.
• Maintains technological competencies utilized by the College.
• Commits to the philosophy of a comprehensive community college.
• Commits to professional growth, which includes seeking ongoing training in diversity, equity and inclusion to better serve students.

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in criminal justice related field or MCC paralegal student.
• Experience working with diverse college populations.
• Technology savvy

Preferred Qualifications:

• Some tutoring experience
• 5 years' experience in the criminal justice profession

Additional Information

Pay Rate: Determined by candidates degree

• Bachelor's Degree - $17/hr
• Master's Degree - $19/hr
• PhD - $21.00

Hours: 10-20 Hours per Week

Non-Discrimination

Monroe Community College prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, familial status, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, national or ethnic origin, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, domestic violence, victim status, criminal conviction, or any other characteristic or status protected by state or federal laws or College policy in admissions, employment, and treatment of students and employees, or in any aspect of the business of the College.

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Application Instructions

Interested applicants may apply at one of the links below.

Please note: Current employees will need to use the internal application link. If you are not an employee, please click on the external application link to create an account.

Internal Application

External Application

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