POSITION INFORMATION
Position Title: Assistant Director, Office of Academic & Bar Success
Department, Program, Center: Law School
Requisition Number: FAC000284
College or School: School of Law
POSITION SUMMARY INFORMATION
Purpose:
The faculty in the Office of Academic & Bar Success work in and out of the classroom to improve the academic success of Santa Clara Law’s students from Orientation through Bar passage. Our faculty works in coordination with doctrinal and skills faculty to design, coordinate, implement, evaluate, and improve the academic skills curriculum. Our faculty members teach courses, provide direct student counseling, and coordinate student programming on a year-round basis. The Assistant Director will primarily work with first-year and continuing students on their academic success needs.
This position is a 75% full-time, eleven-month appointment. The position is a non-tenure track, one-year lecturer position with benefits, subject to renewal contingent on programmatic need.
Salary: Depending on qualifications; benefits eligible.
Basic Qualifications:
– J.D. degree and California Bar membership.
– Experience counseling students in a higher education setting.
– Comfort and familiarity in working with students from diverse backgrounds.
– Ability to think imaginatively, critically, and collaboratively about how to improve and measure student academic development.
– Understanding of, and ability to work for, the mission and goals of Santa Clara University School of Law.
Preferred Qualifications:
– Prior teaching or tutoring experience is desirable, particularly in a law school setting.
– Experience in program management and assessment is desirable.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
– participating in the design, direction, and evaluation of the 1L Academic Success Program (ASP).
– serving as co-supervisor of ASP student fellows and coordinators.
– leading co-curricular presentations on academic success topics during Orientation and throughout the first year.
– coordinating 1L academic success counseling.
– administering the 1L supplemental practice exam series.
In addition, the Assistant Director may teach credit-bearing skills courses, support students subject the Directed Study policy (our upper-division academic support intervention), and assist with Bar preparation programming.
The Law School supports professional development through conferences and training; scholarship is welcome but not required.
Start Date: 08/01/2015
POSTING DETAIL INFORMATION
Open Date: 05/12/2015
Close Date: 05/22/2015
Additional Information: Please include in your application: 1) Cover letter, 2) CV, 3) At least two letters of reference.
Reference letters will be automatically solicited via the system upon submitting your application.
Any questions may be addressed to Devin Kinyon, Assistant Director of the Office of Academic & Bar Success, at dkinyon@scu.edu.
To learn more about the School of Law, please visit http://law.scu.edu/.
About Santa Clara University: Santa Clara University is a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California’s Silicon Valley, offering its 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master’s, Ph.D., and law degrees.
Distinguished by the highest retention rate and ranked second among all master’s universities in the West by U.S. News and World Report, Santa Clara University is California’s oldest operating institution of higher-education. The University is focused on creating an academic community that educates citizens and leaders who will build a more just, humane, and sustainable world.
EEO Statement: Santa Clara University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, committed to excellence through diversity and inclusion, and, in this spirit, particularly welcomes applications from women, persons of color, and members of historically underrepresented groups. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected category in accordance with applicable law. The University will provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability.
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