Associate Director of Quantitative Student Support

Baruch College – Associate Director of Quantitative Student Support   

Job Description:

Baruch College of the City University of New York is a catalyst for the social, cultural, and financial mobility of a diverse student body. It is ranked among the region's and nation's top colleges by U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, and Princeton Review.

This mission of the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs is to empower the next generation of public and nonprofit leaders, advance knowledge about public life and policy, and engage communities across the city, nation, and world to foster effective, inclusive institutions and societies.

Reporting to the Associate Dean, the Associate Director of Quantitative Student Support will develop curriculum , manage and implement a variety of workshops, tutoring programs and other interventions to improve professional master’s students’ quantitative and analytical skills. Quantitative skills are those needed for applied statistics, research and analysis, economics and budgeting courses, as well as to ensure students are quantitatively literate in an era of growing data importance.  Some students have had lifelong problems with math and quantitative skills. Other students succeeded in their courses but do not have the deep level of comfort needed to reach the next stage. Yet other students have stale skills and even those with the strongest skills need to sharpen them to improve their data analysis. An important goal is to support students so that they can understand analysis, enough to critically assess and make effective use of it, rather than an ability to accomplish tasks by rote.

Specific duties:

- Collaborate with faculty, administrators, and staff to determine how best to meet students’ quantitative needs
- Lead effort, in collaboration with Marxe School faculty and administrators, to assess and document quantitative analysis needs, inventory curricula, and serve as an institutional specialist for quantitative student support across the School’s graduate programs
- Develop and refine curriculum and materials
- Develop and facilitate a semester-long workshop for students whose previous records show them to need extensive work in basic quantitative areas.
- Conduct formative evaluation of and refine this workshop accordingly
- Consult with faculty who would like to improve their pedagogical and psycho-social approaches to teaching students quantitative skills.
- Provide summer and winter pre-semester workshops for students identified by the admissions committee as needing refreshers to begin their program.
- Develop and provide other workshops and sessions available to all Marxe graduate students throughout the academic year
- Oversee peer tutoring

 Compensation and Benefits:                                              
 
74,621-91,030; Salary commensurate with education and experience.

CUNY's benefits contribute significantly to total compensation, supporting health and wellness, financial well-being, and professional development.  We offer a range of health plans, competitive retirement/pension benefits and savings plans, tuition waivers for CUNY graduate study and generous paid time off.  Our staff also benefits from the extensive academic, arts, and athletic programs on our campuses and the opportunity to participate in a lively, diverse academic community in one of the greatest cities in the world.

Qualifications: 

Bachelor's Degree required.

- Minimum of six years of combined work and/or academic experience in quantitative, mathematics or related education
- Demonstrated experience of effective teaching for adult or near-adult students whose previous records show them to be underprepared for quantitative reasoning, mathematics or related courses, especially students who have had a history of difficulty and/or fear with this content
- Demonstrated experience writing curricula for use with students whose previous records show them to be underprepared for college quantitative reasoning, mathematics, or related courses 
- Demonstrated experience writing teaching plans and materials, especially active learning materials, that guide students to develop deep (not rote) understanding, and a student-centered pedagogy
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with faculty, tutors, administrators, and staff to assist students whose previous records show them to be underprepared in quantitative reasoning, mathematics or related courses
- Knowledge of, or ability to learn, content in public policy, public management, international affairs, higher education administration and other fields in order to fill the curriculum, workshops, courses, and tutoring with examples, activities and tasks that are relevant to students’ experience, interests, and goals
- Knowledge of, or ability to learn, basic microeconomics and other academic content as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Ten years or more of experience and successful record devising new programs and/or supports for students whose previous records show them to be underprepared for quantitative reasoning, mathematics or related
- Demonstrated experience training and managing tutors, especially peer tutors

FLSA:
Exempt.

- How to Apply: 

Go to the CUNY website http://www.cuny.edu/employment.html to see the complete position description and job requirements in CUNYfirst under Job Opening ID #22252.  You can view and apply for this job in CUNYfirst via the following direct link to the posting

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Candidates should provide a resume, and cover letter.

Closing Date:

March 31, 2021       

EEO Statement:                        

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