Student Success Center Student Tutor 2024-2025

Gain some valuable work experience while making a difference on campus!

Instructions for Applying to this Position

1. How to complete the Student Application:

1. If you have had an on-campus job, please log-in using your LionLink Credentials to your Dayforce account by clicking here, navigate to Main Menu then click “Careers”, search for this position title, and then click the “Apply Now” button.
2. If you have never held an on-campus job, apply through Dayforce by clicking “Apply Now” at the bottom of this job posting.  You will be taken to a new page and will be prompted to create a new candidate account”.
3. Contact your professor(s) to complete the faculty recommendation form for each class you’d be interested in tutoring.Please note recommendations are accepted for 100-200 level classes (not FYS and ENG). For interest in English or writing tutoring in other disciplines, please contact Rachel Liberatore, Director of Writing Center & Tutoring Services (rliberatore@albright.edu).
   1. Include the faculty recommendation link below when emailing your professor to request that they complete the recommendation form(s) for you.

https://www.albright.edu/about-albright/offices-departments/academic-learning-center/faculty-recommendation-form/

Position Summary:

Peer tutors are viewed as academic student leaders and are significant contributors to the Albright community. We believe Peer Tutors provide wonderful motivation for learning and act as a role model to their fellow peers. As members of the Student Success Center staff, Peer Tutors work on an individual basis or in a small group session to answer questions on course content and to provide study strategies to aid in the mastery of course content.

Essential Job Functions:

Peer Tutors are expected to assume the duties and responsibilities identified below. Tutors may be expected to perform additional functions that might be needed in their respective subject fields.

1. Attend tutor training and video training sessions as required by CRLA; participate in online discussions and staff meetings each semester (3-4 hrs/month)
2. Be available for at least 4 hours per week for tutoring throughout the semester.
3. Check appointment system daily and contact tutees when needed.
4. Complete brief reports/summaries of tutoring sessions in an accurate and timely manner.
5. Be available to discuss a tutee’s work with a professor or SSC staff member.
6. Participate in a self-evaluation process each semester.
7. Follow SSC and college policies; establish and maintain credibility within the community; and behave in accordance with the College’s values and expectations.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those encountered while performing the essential functions of this job. 

The individual is routinely exposed to indoor conditions, minimum outdoor weather and temperature extremes, and moderate noise level.

Qualifications/Prerequisites:

1. COMMUNICATION
   1. We expect that Peer Tutors will have a positive perspective of Albright College.
2. SKILLS
   1.  The best candidates to be Peer Tutors are current undergraduate students who are   

  highly dependable, have excellent communications skills, strong recommendations

  from their instructors, and an ability to work well with their peers.

2. All individuals in the Peer Tutor position should exhibit many of the following:

1. Mastery of subject being tutored
2. Good overall academic ability
3. Ability to maintain confidentiality
4. Good interpersonal and communication skills
5. Ability to work well with peers
6. Ability to work well with faculty
7. Ability to be empathetic to students having difficulties
8. Ability to maintain accurate records of tutoring sessions

3. EXPERIENCE

1. Peer Tutors are selected on the basis of academic skill, leadership, character, and the ability to communicate well with others.
2. Tutors are expected to have extensive knowledge of the subject they are hired to tutor and the ability to communicate that knowledge to their peers.

4. EDUCATION

1. Earned a B+ or higher in the course(s) one will tutor
2. Completed Recommendation Form from instructor(s) of course one will tutor

3. CERTIFICATION (was LICENSES)

If hired, students must agree to participate and complete the CRLA tutor training program, which the ALC and WC typically run every semester, within the first year of employment. We ask that tutors try to attend all trainings (approx. 10-13 hours) within their first semester and if a tutor is unable to complete all trainings in the first semester (due to an excused absence), trainings may be completed within the second semester of tutoring. Training includes large group meetings, smaller group workshops, online videos, and reading of scholarly tutoring/learning materials. Tutors will be training and tutoring simultaneously during their first semester of employment. Completion of training results in international certification by the College Reading and Learning Association (www.crla.net).

At Albright, we believe our differences make us stronger and empower us to better understand and respect one another in a just and fair manner. With this in mind, the College recruits, houses, educates, employs, supports, and generally celebrates people of all statuses, identities, and backgrounds, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religious or spiritual identity, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, marital and parental status, veteran status, political affiliation, and physical and mental ability. Albright College is an EEO employer and, as stated above, is actively committed to inclusivity within its community. In pursuit of that, we actively encourage diversity in all dimensions among applicants for this position.
Additional information about Albright College is available at www.albright.edu.