Director, Academic Success Program

Job Summary

Teach relevant law courses to students. Responsible for the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of academic success programs for law students across all years. Counsel and support students by conducting workshops. Provide strategic leadership in skills-based teaching, support students by counseling and tutoring, and create early intervention initiatives that promote academic excellence, retention, and bar readiness. Demonstrate commitment to student development, and collaborative academic support practices tailored to diverse learning styles and student needs including basic writing and analytic skills.

Essential Functions

• Develop and manage a comprehensive academic success program spanning first-year through upper-division law students.
• Teach academic success courses (e.g., Advanced Legal Applications and Foundations of Law) and deliver skills-based workshops (e.g., legal analysis, exam writing, time management).
• Provide individualized academic counseling and coaching to students, including those identified as at-risk.
• Supervise and train academic success fellows, student assistants, and peer tutors in delivering effective support.
• Utilize technology innovations to enhance students’ learning experience.
• Design and implement early assessment tools and data-driven interventions to improve student outcomes.
• Collaborate with Academic Success Faculty to recruit, coordinate, train, and supervise ASP student fellows.

Education

Requires a Juris Doctorate Degree. Licenses/Certifications/Requirements: Law Licensure. Experience: Requires a minimum of 2 years of demonstrated successful teaching experience, preferably in areas such as academic success, bar preparation, legal skills, or legal writing. Strong computer skills (including spreadsheet, word processing, and database capabilities) are required.

Preferred Qualifications

• A demonstrated record of effective self-starting and follow-through.
• Demonstrated success in assisting student learning with the ability to identify methods to enhance learning for multiple learning styles.
• The ability to build rapport with all students, including those at risk, and a demonstrated ability to work well with a variety of constituencies.
• The ability to create, implement, and evaluate academic support.

Physical Requirements

No major sources of working conditions discomfort, standard working environment with possible minor inconveniences due to occasional noise, crowded working conditions, minor heating/cooling or ventilation problems, and/or up to 40% use of PC terminal.