Associate Director of Academic and Bar Success (Student Support Specialist)

About the role

The Associate Director will assist in managing McKinney's academic and bar support initiatives to provide a comprehensive and meaningful academic experience for law students, reporting to the Director of Academic and Bar Success.

Responsibilities

Department-Specific Responsibilities

• Provides individual assistance and counseling, including regularly scheduled meetings, with students in academic difficulty and at-risk students.
• Develops and monitors academic plans and recovery plans for individual students.
• Reviews and provides critical and constructive feedback on exercises and practice exams.
• Advises at-risk students on course selection.
• Assists in the oversight and management of the first-year tutorial program.
• Plans and executes 2 bar weeks per academic year.
• Meets with and counsels students on their academic skills development.
• Develops and oversees the execution of individualized learning plans; provides 1-on-1 assistance for at-risk students.
• Tracks student success and academic performance for students in academic difficulty and at-risk students.
• Utilizes Canvas e-learning management system to help develop student skills and track student progress.
• Meets with and counsels students on preparing for the bar exam.
• Plans workshops and events related to academic and bar preparation.
• Assists with supplemental bar prep program, including conducting practice exam sessions, skills and strategies workshops, and providing critical and constructive feedback on essays and MPTs.
• Assists with collection and organization of data for long-term assessment of:
  • student participation in Academic and Bar Success programming and course offerings,
  • individual student academic and bar exam performance, and
  • McKinney School of Law retention and bar passage rates.

General Responsibilities

• Develops and implements programs and initiatives that offer support for students in crisis, facing adversity or challenges, or who belong to an under-represented or minority student population.
• Interfaces directly with students by attending student programming events, advising student organization leaders, meeting 1-on-1 to discuss support needs, and gathering satisfaction feedback from student participants to implement into future student services initiatives and objectives.
• Emphasizes confidentiality of student concerns, university policy compliance, and a culture of care within all direct student interactions.
• Collaborates with staff in own department and other departments, as well as academic and campus leaders, on shared student support goals, often coordinating funding to sponsor student programs and initiatives.
• Projects outcomes for support services offered at the program, department/division, or campus level.
• Measures and evaluates effectiveness of student support initiatives against projected outcomes; regularly prepares reports on impact to students and budget and presents to stakeholders on effectiveness and to secure funding for initiatives moving forward.
• Serves on committees and performs student support research across the field of higher education and at peer institutions to identify and recommend best practices.
• Plans and coordinates communications for student support initiatives to ensure student participation, inclusion, and engagement.
• May provide guidance to other student support staff; makes process recommendations to manager for improved delivery of service.
• May serve on various campus or cross-functional committees to share student support best practices.

Requirements

Combinations of related education and experience may be considered. Education beyond the minimum required may be substituted for work experience. Work experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted for education.

Education

• Required: Bachelor's degree in education, public affairs, public health, counseling, social work, business, or related field.
• Preferred: Juris doctor degree.

Work Experience

• Required: 5 years in student services, higher education, social work, counseling, law, or related field.
• Preferred: Post-law school experience or higher education experience; current or previous admission to a state bar in the U.S., preferably Indiana or a UBE jurisdiction; teaching, advising, tutoring, counseling, or related experience.

Skills

• Proficient written and verbal communication skills.
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
• Demonstrates time management and priority setting skills.
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.
• Highly thorough and dependable.
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.
• Possesses a high degree of initiative.
• Ability to influence internal and/or external constituents.
• Demonstrates ability to maintain confidential information.
• Ability to simultaneously handle multiple priorities.
• Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrates customer service skills.
• Knowledge of student development, counseling, or career development theories and practices.
• Knowledge of current needs and trends of wide student populations.
• Ability to advise students individually and in groups on student-related matters.
• Ability to build strong partnerships with students and other university departments.
• Ability to effectively communicate and operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment.
• Involves sedentary work as well as periods of time moving around an office environment and the campus.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $50,648 to $64,260 annually.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance.
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions.
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU.
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting.
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options.
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses.
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year.
• Generous paid time off plans.
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).