API Tutor

Thank you for considering a career with the Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY).

The team at RFCUNY is made up of dedicated, talented professionals committed to providing the services that allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries.

We are pleased that you are interested in exploring opportunities to join RFCUNY.

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The API Academic Peer Instruction (API) is a peer program modeled after a nationally recognized Supplemental Instruction (SI) program. We are proud to say that API has helped students succeed in their courses at LaGuardia since 1993. It is free to all students enrolled in "high-risk" API – linked courses. The program's mission is to improve students' academic performance in high-risk courses and foster independent learning to prepare students to become high-performing students in future courses. Visit our website for more information.

We are looking for an administrative Staff to join our team to support the peers and the coordinators. The workload is 15 hours spread over 3 days (in person). If interested, please email your resume to api@lagcc.cuny.edu

Responsibilities include:

PUBLIC RELATIONS

1. Advertise the program to the college community with the aim of identifying and recruiting new tutors.

2. Maintain and update the website for the program: www.laguardia.edu/api.

3. Prepare material and coordinate any advertising events that API will participate in within the college.

TUTOR HIRING

4. Manage new applications and schedule interviews.

5. Coordinate the hiring paperwork for new and returning tutors in Collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning.

6. Coordinate submission of timesheets so that tutors get paid on time.

TUTOR WORK/PROGRESS

7. In collaboration with program coordinators, design and update forms, which tutors and administrators use for planning, assessment, and management of various aspects of the program.

8. Maintain detailed records of tutors' performance and monitor their work.

9. Help tutors build and maintain a tutoring schedule & location.

10. Secure a room for each meeting before and during the semester. Help to obtain all necessary supplies and other materials needed for each meeting.

11. Observe each tutor at least once during the semester.

12. Create an email group with all tutors and send frequent reminders of important events, training meetings, and due dates.

13. Share tutoring schedules with all faculty teaching the targeted courses, including non-API sections, to improve session attendance.

14. Help tutors create email groups with their students and ensure they are used frequently. Keep a record of the number of emails send by each tutor.

15. Help the tutors design fliers and help them obtain enough copies.

16. Process all print-shop requests and distribute copies to tutors.

17. Manage supply inventory and orders. Get markers for each semester from the college.

18. Prepare new folders for all tutors before each semester, including all necessary forms.

DATA COLLECTION/STATISTICS

19. Help with summarizing the data collected by tutors each semester. Obtain from the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment additional data such as student grades. Summarize all this information to be used for any interim and annual report.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Have completed a minimum of 9 credits and have a GPA of 3.0
• Must demonstrate proof of technology skill either through an advanced level Portfolio or Windows operating system and MS Office
• Must be responsible, mature, possess good communication and listening skills, good interpersonal skills, and maintain good attendance as well as punctuality
• Have a desire to help others learn

Pay Range:

$19.12 to $19.12 per hour

RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals (link to https://www.rfcuny.org/RFWebsite)

About the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.