Director of Academic Success

Rhode Island College invites applicants for the position of Director of Academic Success. This is a full-time, calendar year, continuing
position.

The Director of Academic Success is responsible for providing leadership in programs, services, and initiatives that
support and enhance academic excellence and success for all students. The Director will be responsible for leading, developing, assessing
and supervising all services and staff of the Academic Success Center, including peer subject tutoring services, the Writing Center, and the
Math Learning Center. The Director will collaborate with campus partners to ensure the offering of a multitude of learning and tutoring
services, programs and activities that support student learning, academic coaching and development. The Director will work with faculty and
staff to ensure academic support services are grounded in relevant student development learning theory and to provide students with high
quality support services. The Director is responsible for the integration, facilitation, coordination, synthesizing, enabling, and fostering
of outcomes driven efforts in academic support that encourages student success (e.g., retention, persistence, and graduation). The Director
will work with the Associate Vice President for Student Services to implement ongoing systems of collaborations with Academic Advising,
Disability Services, Faculty and other areas of student support, including but not limited to Learning for Life, the AVP/ Dean of
Students, and Academic Affairs.

Rhode Island College is a nationally accredited and comprehensive undergraduate and graduate degree
granting institution founded in 1854 as a teacher’s college. It is the state’s first public institution of higher education. The
College now offers 90 undergraduate majors and programs, 42 master’s degrees and two doctoral degree programs in five schools: the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, the School of Business, the School of Nursing, and
the School of Social Work. The Academic Success Center provides academic support programs and services that assist and enhance academic
excellence and success for all students. The Center offers a multitude of learning and tutoring services, programs and activities that
support student learning, academic coaching and development. The Academic Success Center is located in the lower level of Adams Library and
comprises of peer subject tutoring, the Math Learning Center and the Writing Center. Tutorial services offers peer tutoring in subject areas
including but not limited to biology, chemistry, history, psychology, sociology, social work, time management organization, test preparation
for course work and for national exams such as GRE, PRAXIS, SAT, and ACT. The Math Learning Center (MLC) provides
tutoring in mathematics and administers the math placement exam. The Writing Center provides students the chance to connect with a writing
specialist.

Required qualifications:

• Master’s degree
• Minimum of five years of
  experience in higher education in academic learning and support, specifically with years of experience as a learning specialist focusing on
  college learning skills and development.
• Strong demonstration of experience with case management, academic advising, tutoring
  services and academic coaching with diverse college learners, including students “at risk”.
• Strong experience in
  developing, facilitating and assessing impactful academic learning and support programs and initiatives that meet needs of diverse learners.
• Demonstrated experience of successfully working collaboratively with faculty and staff to meet needs to students.

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of PeopleSoft
• Bi-lingual (Spanish Preferred)