Academic Assistant

Academic Assistant

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
The Academic Assistant plays an important role in the Disability Resource Center. The Assistant will be responsible for ensuring all student received their approved accommodation on each exam. This includes printing exams assigning space and setting up appropriate assistive technology for each exam.

Responsibilities:
They will also coordinate with instructors to ensure all exams and exam instructions are available for student in a timely fashion. Ensure exam are returned to instructors within 24 hours of completion. When necessary complete incident reports for academic integrity violations.
The Assistant will also hire and train a staff of 7-9 graduate and undergraduate students to assist in the exam proctoring process. This includes monitoring work study funds and managing weekly pay roll through student employment.

The Assistant will be responsible for ensuring the computers in the DRC are kept up to date with all assistive technology and regular maintenance. Additionally this position will be responsible for daily monitoring of the DRC email account, this includes responding to general inquires and making referrals when needed.

Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree required
1-2 years working in office setting
Strong Customer Service skills and experience
Organizational skills
Ability to work in a fast paced environment
Managing multiple competing deliverables.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with assistive technology
Experience working with people with a range of disabilities
Cultural competency

Salary Grade:
51

Additional Information:
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.


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