General Statement of Job

The Academic Services Coordinator provides academic services to include the Upward Bound tutoring program, monitoring participant grades, and designing curriculum for the summer College Simulation Experience (CSE) by performing the following duties.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Duties:

Works with the Project Director to recruit and select new Upward Bound (UB) participants.

Coordinates programs and the academic assessment of all participants.

Works with Project Director to develop Individual Plans of Action (IPAs) for all new and current participants.

Coordinates the UB tutoring program.

Trains, supervises, and evaluates the performance of project tutors, resident assistants and part-time instructors.

Coordinates the development of the summer CSE curriculum and co-curricular activities.

Provides academic advising and other support services to participants.

Coordinates and monitors participants’ grades.

Coordinates and evaluates the standardized testing of participants.

Coordinates the “A Day in the Life” student shadowing program.

Creates the UB newsletter.

Assists in the tracking of UB graduates.

Performs other related duties as required.

Education, Experience, and Licenses

Master’s degree or 4 years of experience in TRIO, education or related field

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or government regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of faculty, staff, prospective students, students, and members of the general public.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiple, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to deal compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Requires the ability to make recommendations that impact the budget.
• Requires the ability to use small office equipment, including copy machines or multi-line telephone systems.
• Requires the ability to use computers for data entry.
• Requires the ability to use computers for word processing and/or accounting purposes.
• Requires the ability to use technology to instruct students during workshops

Physical Demands/Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by the employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, feel or use a computer keyboard; and talk or hear including the use of a telephone. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop or kneel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

The noise level in the office work environment is usually moderate with frequent occasions of multiple conversations in process.

NOTICE: The above job profile does not include all essential and nonessential duties of this job. All employees with disabilities are encouraged to contact Human Resources to review and discuss the essential and nonessential functions of the job. An employee with a disability can evaluate the job in greater detail to determine if she/he can safely perform the essential function of this job with or without reasonable accommodation.