Quantitative Reasoning Center Program Manager
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Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY, US
Summary
The Program Manager will oversee, recruit, and mentor student tutors and supplemental instructors within the Quantitative Reasoning Center. They are responsible for managing the center's schedule and providing performance feedback to ensure efficient support for students in STEM courses.
Job Description
Department
Learning, Teaching and Research Center
Job Family
Administrator
Vassar College is deeply committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees by promoting an environment of transparency and respect for differences. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds who meet the qualifications of a posting. If you need to request an accommodation to fully participate in the search process, please contact [email protected].
Job Description
Schedule: 15 hours per week
Position Summary
The Quantitative Reasoning Center provides support to Vassar students enrolled in math, chemistry, economics, physics, biology, and earth science courses. The Q-Center Program Manager will oversee the student employees who serve as tutors and supplemental instructors for the Center. These duties will include recruiting, training, and mentoring those students. The Program Manager will ensure that Q-Center runs efficiently and provides services that enhance student success in their STEM courses. This is a part-time administrative position that will involve some work in evenings and on weekends. Applicants should have experience with teaching and tutoring STEM subject matter.
The Program Manager will be employed throughout the academic year, with a flexible weekly schedule.
Responsibilities
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Recruit, train, supervise and mentor Q-Center student tutors and supplemental instructors
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Create and oversee a schedule for Q-Center tutors
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Provide Q-Center employees with feedback on their performance
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Provide information to Chairs and Directors of STEM departments/programs about Q-Center programming
Required knowledge, skills, and abilities:
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Experience teaching at the secondary or college-level or experience working with academic support programs
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Strong computer skills including proficiency with Google Suite, Microsoft Office suite and ability to learn additional technical systems.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills.
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Ability to interact effectively with a diverse community.
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Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time.
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Ability to interact socially with others.
Preferred knowledge, skills, and abilities:
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Strong foundation in STEM subject matter.
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Experience working with people with different learning modalities.
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Experience overseeing an education-related organization.
Compensation
The compensation for this position is $29.77 - $38.71 hourly.
When extending an offer, Vassar College considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, budget, and other market and organizational considerations. The starting salary range represents the College’s good faith and reasonable estimate at the time of posting.
Formerly the Vassar College Art Gallery, we were the first art museum at a college or university that was part of the institution’s original plan. Today, the Loeb’s permanent collection includes over 22,000 works, comprised of paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, textiles, and glass and ceramic wares. We strive to be a catalyst for scholarly, creative, and social justice work by Vassar students and others. Our undertakings reflect a commitment to broaden, and amplify, the voices represented in the museum setting, and to ensure that the Loeb’s programs and practices have a positive impact on our communities.
IMPACT STATEMENT
By engaging with the Loeb’s collections and programs, individuals build capacity to make meaningful connections—intellectual, creative, emotional—through the visual arts across time, place, and cultures.
COMMITMENT TO DEAI
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College commits to Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion as core values across its culture, systems, and practices. We pledge to allocate resources (human and financial) to create and sustain a museum culture and program in which difference is celebrated. The Loeb can best serve its communities by examining critically its own history and systemic biases, and working continually to resist discrimination and present a variety of narratives. A fundamental shift in institutional ethos toward equity and inclusion enhances the Loeb’s mission to support the goals of the college.
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is to enhance and support the College’s goals of leadership, scholarship, and integrative learning. The Loeb achieves this through the preservation, documentation, interpretation, presentation, and development of its collections; and through a dynamic program of temporary exhibitions and educational activities aimed at diverse audiences.
Founded
1864
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Education
Org type
Educational
Headquarters
Poughkeepsie, NY
Formerly the Vassar College Art Gallery, we were the first art museum at a college or university that was part of the institution’s original plan. Today, the Loeb’s permanent collection includes over 22,000 works, comprised of paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, textiles, and glass and ceramic wares. We strive to be a catalyst for scholarly, creative, and social justice work by Vassar students and others. Our undertakings reflect a commitment to broaden, and amplify, the voices represented in the museum setting, and to ensure that the Loeb’s programs and practices have a positive impact on our communities.
IMPACT STATEMENT
By engaging with the Loeb’s collections and programs, individuals build capacity to make meaningful connections—intellectual, creative, emotional—through the visual arts across time, place, and cultures.
COMMITMENT TO DEAI
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College commits to Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion as core values across its culture, systems, and practices. We pledge to allocate resources (human and financial) to create and sustain a museum culture and program in which difference is celebrated. The Loeb can best serve its communities by examining critically its own history and systemic biases, and working continually to resist discrimination and present a variety of narratives. A fundamental shift in institutional ethos toward equity and inclusion enhances the Loeb’s mission to support the goals of the college.
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is to enhance and support the College’s goals of leadership, scholarship, and integrative learning. The Loeb achieves this through the preservation, documentation, interpretation, presentation, and development of its collections; and through a dynamic program of temporary exhibitions and educational activities aimed at diverse audiences.
Founded
1864
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Education
Org type
Educational
Headquarters
Poughkeepsie, NY
