The Highlights:
The Tutoring Center Coordinator provides leadership and oversight for the Driehaus College of Business Tutoring Center, ensuring that tutoring services effectively support student learning, academic success, and retention. The Coordinator manages program development, assessment, tutor training, and strategic initiatives while serving as the primary liaison between the Tutoring Center, faculty, advisors, and college leadership. Through the supervision of three Graduate Assistants, the Coordinator ensures the efficient delivery of tutoring services while focusing on program quality, continuous improvement, and long-term planning. The position also promotes collaboration across the College and supports student success by expanding access to academic support resources and fostering an inclusive, student-centered learning environment.
What You'll Do:
- Program Leadership & Strategic Planning: Provides leadership and strategic direction for the Tutoring Center to ensure services align with the College's academic success and retention goals. Develops annual objectives, manages operational priorities, oversees resource allocation, and implements initiatives that enhance student learning outcomes. Leads continuous improvement efforts through planning, evaluation, and collaboration with college leadership.
- Supervision of Graduate Assistants & Tutor Development: Directly supervises three Graduate Assistants and oversees the recruitment, training, scheduling, and development of student tutors. Establishes performance expectations, provides coaching and feedback, and fosters a collaborative team environment focused on student success. Ensures tutoring staff are equipped with the skills and resources necessary to deliver effective academic support.
- Faculty & Advisor Partnerships: Serves as the primary liaison between the Tutoring Center, faculty, academic advisors, and college leadership. Builds partnerships that strengthen early intervention efforts, increase awareness of tutoring services, and identify opportunities to support student achievement. Collaborates with campus stakeholders to address academic support needs and enhance student engagement.
- Assessment, Reporting & Data Analysis: Leads the collection, analysis, and reporting of tutoring utilization and student success data to evaluate program effectiveness. Develops assessments, tracks key performance metrics, and prepares reports for college leadership and accreditation or institutional assessment needs. Uses data-informed decision-making to improve services, allocate resources, and guide strategic planning.
- Student Success & Escalation Support: Supports student success through outreach, referrals, and direct intervention for students facing academic challenges. Assists with resolving complex student concerns related to tutoring services and coordinates support with advisors, faculty, and other campus resources as appropriate. Promotes equitable access to academic support services and a student-centered learning environment.
- The Tutoring Center Coordinator oversees tutoring center operations, program priorities, tutor development, assessment efforts, and Graduate Assistant assignments. The position makes routine program and staffing decisions and uses data to recommend improvements. Decisions involving budgets, new positions, major policy changes, and significant personnel matters are referred to the Associate Director, Outreach. The Coordinator directly supervises three Graduate Assistants and spends approximately 25% of their time on hiring, training, coaching, and performance management.
- Responsible for monitoring an annual tutoring budget of approximately $40,000, supporting an average of 600 tutoring hours per quarter.
- Tracks tutor payroll expenditures, monitors budget utilization, and makes recommendations to ensure resources are used effectively and within budget limits.
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor's degree in Higher Education, Student Affairs, Education, Business, Counseling, or a related field.
- Minimum three years of experience in academic support, advising, tutoring services, learning assistance, student success programs, or related areas.
- Experience supervising student employees, peer educators, tutors, or Graduate Assistants.
- Strong communication, organizational, and relationship-building skills.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze data and make evidence-based recommendations.
- Ability to prioritize responsibilities and effectively manage a part-time leadership role.
- Technology Skills:
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, Teams, and Excel.
- Ability to collect, analyze, and report data using spreadsheets and reporting tools.
- Experience with virtual communication and collaboration platforms.
- Leadership & Supervision - Leads and supports Graduate Assistants and tutors.
- Student Success - Promotes student learning and success.
- Relationship Building - Builds partnerships with faculty, advisors, staff, and students.
- Data-Informed Decision Making - Uses data to improve services.
- Communication - Communicates clearly and effectively.
- Organization - Manages priorities through effective delegation and oversight.
The anticipated hiring range for this position is: $23.45 to $29.00/hr.
The salary range provided in this posting reflects what we reasonably expect to pay for this position. Actual compensation offered or earned is dependent on experience, education and other factors including departmental budget.
Perks:
- Working for a stable and well-known University.
- Paid time off.
- Part-Time Benefits
For consideration, please include a resume and cover letter.
Vincentian Mission:
Guided by an ethic of Vincentian personalism and professionalism, DePaul compassionately upholds the dignity of all members of its diverse, multi-faith, and inclusive community. We seek to hire collaborative, open-minded, and dedicated professionals who are committed to advancing our university mission to making education accessible to all, with special attention to including underserved and underrepresented communities. Successful candidates thrive in an environment where ideas and perspectives representing a wide variety of cultures, backgrounds and experiences are welcome and supported.
Required Background Check:
Employment at DePaul University is contingent on passing a background check. Only final candidates who are extended an offer of employment will undergo a background check.
DePaul University is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information or any other legally protected status, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local EEO laws.
Organization
DePaul University and Our Mission
As an innovative Catholic, Vincentian university anchored in the global city of Chicago, DePaul supports the integral human development of its students. The university does so through its commitment to outstanding teaching, academic excellence, real-world experience, and community engagement. DePaul prepares its graduates to be successful in their chosen fields and agents of transformation throughout their lives.
Guided by an ethic of Vincentian personalism and professionalism, DePaul passionately upholds the dignity of all members of its diverse, multi-faith, and inclusive community. Through education, creative endeavors, and research, the university addresses the great questions of our day, promoting peaceful, just, and equitable solutions to social and environmental challenges. Since its founding in 1898, DePaul University has remained dedicated to making education accessible to all, with special attention to including underserved and underrepresented communities.
Comprised of ten colleges and schools, offering 130+ undergraduate majors and 170+ graduate programs, DePaul’s faculty challenges its students to analyze and solve real-world problems with rigor and innovation.
As an urban faith-based institution with a diverse student body, DePaul is committed to growing and maintaining a faculty dedicated to advancing the Vincentian mission through research, teaching, and service. DePaul upholds a fair and equitable recruitment, interview, and hiring process where supporting diverse populations and academic excellence are compatible goals. Our vibrant and diverse faculty is supported through academic and professional development resources. Successful candidates thrive and are at home in an environment where diverse cultures and identities, ideas, backgrounds, and experiences are welcomed and supported.
