High Dosage Tutor Athletics Academics

Position Introduction:

GRITGrowing Resilient Innovative Thinkers is a program that provides high dosage explicit learning and thinking strategies to empower student athletes to feel and find success while providing an opportunity to close any possible academic gaps.

GRIT Mentors have a roster of student athletes to implement research-based strategies for thinking critically beyond basic recall and memorization in reading and math.
We are looking for reading math writing and study skills mentors.

Job Responsibilities:

• Attend orientation and monthly training.
• Mentor and tutor students on a weekly basis.
• Meet weekly with the Director once a week.
• Complete daily reports for each assigned student.
• Develop plan prepare and implement the strategic approach to high dosage tutoring aligned with training.
• Track analyze and synthesize student progress data based on high dosage tutoring model
  Communicate with the Coordinator.
• Arrive in a timely manner.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

All tutoring will take place in the Prentice Gautt Academic Center.

Required Education and Experience:

• Occasional Employee must meet the skills requirement below in addition to holding a degree in desired subject to tutor.
• Must attach transcript reflecting minimum grade requirement or degree earned.
• Must have earned a B or higher in the specific course or have been award a degree in that area.
• Must be capable of tutoring the courses specified.
• Must be able to demonstrate ability to effectively communicate material while engaging with our student-athletes in a positive manner.
• Must be willing and able to communicate and build relationships with a varied group of students and colleagues.
• Must be willing and able to gain and maintain working knowledge of university conference and NCAA rules and regulations.
• Must be willing and able to adhere to standards of conduct for Athletics Academics Tutorial Staff.

Department Preferences:

• Experience working as a tutor for undergraduate or graduate students.
• Experience working with a diverse group of students.
• Working knowledge of university conference and NCAA rules and regulations.