What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tutor - Science TRIO position at Cincinnati State Technical & Community College?
Tutor - Science, TRIO Student Support Services (SSS), College Access Program
Overview:
To provide academic assistance to Student Support Services participants in both individual and small group tutoring sessions in the science subject areas of Biology, Microbiology, Anatomy and Physiology 1&2, Chemistry, and Physics, specifically.
Funding for this position is contingent on annual grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education and is subject to annual renewal by the U.S. Department of Education.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Assist students with various scientific, laboratory, and mathematical concepts to help them further understand concepts of their science subject areas.
- Possess a passion for helping students learn and have knowledge and science skills.
- Have good interpersonal skills to interact with students of all ages and levels of learning.
- Must have a positive attitude and have patience to work with a diverse student population.
- Maintain weekly tutoring logs with students’ tutoring time and any notes that will be submitted to a TRIO SSS Program Representative.
- Enter tutoring data into SSS program software (BLUMEN).
- Confer with SSS Academic Coaches, as needed, concerning student progress/challenges.
- Follow-up and meet with professors and other program and College personnel, if required.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Associate's degree from an accredited college or university
- Experience as a tutor of science in secondary and/or post-secondary education
- Experience constructing, conducting and assessing science exercises and activities
- Ability to work effectively with a diverse population.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Community College teaching or tutoring experience
- Experience working in a Tutoring Center with Science as a key focus
Details:
Reports To: Director, College Access Programs
Hourly Rate: $25 per hour
Contractual Affiliation: Non-Bargaining
Classification: Non-Exempt
Status: Part-time (10 hours per week)
Cincinnati State is an E-Verify employer:
- If you're hired, you must complete a Form I-9, which verifies your identity and your legal right to work in the U.S.
- You'll need to provide original, acceptable documents—no photocopies—to complete the I-9 process.
- A list of acceptable documents can be seen here: USCIS I-9 website
STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT
- The institution declares that it will educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth.
- The institution declares that its duty is to equip students with the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions.
- The institution declares its commitment to not requiring, favoring, disfavoring, or prohibiting speech or lawful assembly.
- The institution declares it is committed to create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community.
- The institution declares that its duty is to treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, to hold them to equal standards, and to provide them equality of opportunity, with regard to those individuals' race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
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