Associate/Assistant Director Position at UC Irvine

The University of California, Irvine School of Law invites applications for the position of Assistant/Associate Director in the Academic Skills Program. The successful candidate will develop, enhance, and implement a program to assist students in the transition to law school, to promote their successful completion of the J.D. program, and to prepare them to sit for the bar exam.

The Assistant/Associate Director will promote the academic success of students at the Law School.
In collaboration with the Director of Academic Skills and the Academic Skills Program team, the Assistant/Associate Director will have the opportunity to:
• Develop curriculum for and teach third-year/post-graduation bar preparation programs;
• Develop curriculum for and teach first-year Academic Skills “Labs” and integrated exercises in doctrinal subjects;
• Develop workshop content and teach workshops for matriculating first-year students;
• Assist in developing curriculum and teaching second-year programs focusing on legal analysis and legal writing skills;
• Provide individual and small-group feedback on student practice exams and exercises;
• Manage department databases (e.g., internal shared drive, TWEN), create and administer student surveys to assess programming, create marketing materials, and coordinate with administrative assistants on logistics for department programs;
• Assist with hiring, training, and supervising student fellows to help administer various first-year student programs;
• Engage in professional development through collaborating with Academic Skills professionals at the local, regional, and national levels to present educational and innovative programs; and
• Assist in planning and managing the budget for first-year programs, student fellows, and books/materials purchases.

The UC Irvine School of Law's inaugural class graduated in the Spring of 2011. The School projects total enrollment of approximately 350 students across all three classes in 2016-17. At full size, the School anticipates an annual enrollment of 600 students. With the School still in its growth stage, the Assistant/Associate Director of Academic Skills will have a rare opportunity to contribute to the design, development, and implementation of the Academic Skills Program. It is therefore expected that the successful candidate will examine and add to existing programs with the same spirit of innovation that characterizes the School. The successful candidate will be expected to exercise independence and judgment, drawing on past experience and careful analysis of the Law School’s particular needs.

UC Irvine School of Law seeks to create the ideal law school for the 21st century by doing the best job of training lawyers for the practice of law at the highest levels of the profession. UCI Law is an innovative and visionary law school focused on educating talented and passionate lawyers driven by professional excellence, intellectual rigor, and a commitment to enrich our communities through public service. The law school is a collegial, supportive, and friendly environment and our faculty is comprised of accomplished, nationally-ranked thought leaders from around the country with a broad range of expertise. Recruited from prestigious schools, the faculty ranked sixth in the country in scholarly impact in a recent study. The student body has admissions qualifications comparable to those of student bodies at top 20 law schools. The school's innovative curriculum stresses hands-on learning, interdisciplinary study, and public service.

Since 1965, the University of California, Irvine has combined the strengths of a major research university with the bounty of an incomparable Southern California location. Consistently ranked among the nation's best universities – public and private – UCI excels in a broad range of fields, garnering national recognition for many schools, departments and programs. With more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 1,100 faculty, UCI is among the most dynamic campuses in the University of California system.

Please visit the following link to apply for this position:
https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF03611

The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy. A recipient of an NSF ADVANCE award for gender equity, UCI is responsive to the needs of dual career couples, supports work-life balance through an array of family-friendly policies, and is dedicated to broadening participation in higher education.