Manager Writing Center
Job Description
- Job code: 006300
- Pay grade: E
- Pay type: Exempt/salaried
General summary
Directs a full-service writing center that helps maintain a culture of writing and academic integrity through consultations, workshops, and material development.
Major duties
- Designs, implements and assesses programming to meet the needs of Â鶹´«Ã½s, staff, faculty, and alumni. Collaborates with other departmental programs to increase Â鶹´«Ã½ resource utilization.
- Collects and evaluates data relevant to Â鶹´«Ã½ success and initiatives to inform future decision-making, policies, and procedures.
- Aids Â鶹´«Ã½s, staff, faculty, and alumni better understand their individual writing related issues. Executes writing strategies at all stages of the writing process.
- Creates courses, workshops and training materials. Updates promotional materials. Presents to Â鶹´«Ã½s, teaching assistants, faculty, staff, classes, and campus organizations.
- Supervises independent research.
- Maintains an active research agenda. Presents original scholarships at professional conferences. Publishes in peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journals.
- Hires, trains, evaluates, and supervises Â鶹´«Ã½ employees.
Minimum qualifications
Minimum qualifications based upon job documentation and industry best practices. Any current employees not meeting these qualifications will be grandfathered until they move to a different job.
Required education
- Master's degree in related field from an accredited institution.
Required experience
- Two years' relevant experience.
- Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with coursework in rhetoric writing and writing cross the curriculum theory and pedagogy.
- Knowledge of Â鶹´«Ã½ development and writing development needs.
- Knowledge of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) on-line instruction.
- Excellent writing skills.
Required other
- Ability to work irregular shifts and extended hours, including weekends and holidays.
Physical requirements
Office or other indoor work with minimal physical demands such as occasionally lifting or moving materials less than 25 pounds.
Working conditions
Work is generally performed in a well-lit, temperature-controlled indoor environment with occasional exposure to the outdoors or any number of elements.
Revised: 2024-11-26
This description indicates the general nature and level of work performed by employees in the above job. It is not intended to be a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.