The University of New Mexico Valencia Campus is seeking an Education Specialist. The Education Specialist will have direct oversight of the Pasos Resource Center to include the STEM Tutoring and all college-level UNM Valencia Campus peer tutors including hiring, training, scheduling, performance evaluations, tutoring data collection, analysis, and reporting. The Education Specialist will become proficient via tracking system, student retention, scheduling, and reporting system. In collaboration with the Writing Center Director, this position creates and provides relevant training for student tutors, front desk receptionists, and peer mentors that is accessible, practical, relationship-centered, equity focused, data-informed, sustainable, with an emphasis on instructional design; providing training to faculty on how to evaluate tutoring needs and best serve the student population. The Education Specialist will collaborate with the Director of the Writing Center in training STEM and Writing tutors.
This individual must possess strong interpersonal skills to manage and facilitate program activities including monitoring of the program budget. This individual will interact collaboratively with faculty to recruit qualified peer tutors and in providing individual, group, and embedded tutoring services specific to the academic needs of the UNM Valencia Campus. Duties will include the development of curricula, relevant presentations and materials workshops, and other academic and tutoring training services including a focus on assisting students with learning challenges.
Located about 30 miles south of Albuquerque in rural Valencia county, the University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus is a two-year branch campus of the University of New Mexico which functions as a community college in the region and is designated a Hispanic Serving Institution. With an emphasis on teaching excellence, Valencia Campus offers academic transfer programs, technical vocational programs, Adult Basic Education, and Dual Credit High School/College courses to Valencia and Socorro Counties. The faculty and staff serve a student body of approximately 2,000 credit students per semester.
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