Part-Time Literacy Tutor

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide tutoring services to adults working to improve their reading, writing, and digital literacy.
• Assess individuals’ literacy skills and needs utilizing formal and informal evaluation tools and techniques.
• Absorb students in setting and obtaining educational and personal goals regarding literacy.
• Monitor student time and progress and submit weekly attendance and performance reports to program director.
• Become familiar with the texts, workbooks, software, and other resources available for use in literacy tutoring sessions.
• Utilize a variety of instructional methods and tools to help individuals improve their reading, writing, and digital literacy skills.
• Maintain student confidentiality and a professional tutoring environment.
• Attend required literacy tutor trainings and meetings.
• Promote additional adult education resources and workforce training opportunities to individuals with additional education and vocational goals.
• Be a positive role model for students, encouraging them to continue pursuing educational and personal goals.
• Partner with college staff and library personnel to identify and use safe, public locations for tutoring sessions.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma required.
• Ability to use Microsoft and Google office products.
• Must be patient, friendly, approachable, and caring.
• Must be willing to complete literacy training and learn instructional strategies and skills to employ them with students.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications (continued)

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Literacy endorsement preferred.
• Experience in tutoring or teaching preferred.
• Experience in adult education, literacy, or English as a Second Language instruction is highly desirable.

Pay

$13.00-$18.00/hour

Schedule

Part-time tutoring hours may vary depending on student needs. Position will work between 5-15 hours per week.