Undergraduate Mathematics Specialist (Chicago Loop Campus)
Job Description
National Louis University’s Undergraduate College is searching for Mathematics Specialist openings with our team at the Chicago Loop campus (122 S Michigan).
This is a part-time position of approximately 16-20 hours per week, with scheduled time occurring primarily during daytime classes (9am-4pm).
Who we are:
We are a team of dedicated educators who have been working together to build an amazing program that supports first-generation students with a focus on the holistic student. We work fearlessly to educate and retain our students. As a result, we have exceeded national benchmarks through our approach to holistic coaching and data-driven, personalized instruction. Our educational model is student-focused, expects excellence, provides personalized support in a data-driven environment, and is grounded by pillars of continuous improvement and innovation to structure our work.
Who you are:
You are: Driven to Succeed.
You are energetic and passionate about a diverse student body that includes many first-generation students. To be successful tutoring in this program, you must be committed to excellence in teaching and learning in Higher Education. The position requires you to be agile, creative and engaging while offering a new curriculum and an unparalleled experience to undergraduate students. Enthusiastic candidates have the belief that all students can be successful students. As an active team member, you believe in a supportive environment and a student-driven culture.
You will: Offer Best-in-Class Tutoring and Support.
You believe that your work has demonstrated your respect for education and the power that it holds. Each term, you will serve as an embedded tutor in blended classes that utilize technology and data to drive instruction. You will work with a dedicated team of Coaches and Instructors, Content Experts and Data Analysts to determine how to personalize the learning experience for your students. In addition to content-area tutoring, you will also encourage growth mindset, increase non-cognitive skill development and nurture academic confidence.
You are ready to: Make an Impact.
Each and every day National Louis University changes lives. You want to be a part of that meaningful innovation. You are someone that will always look for creative ways for students to earn success. We know this work is challenging, but we are in it together.
UGC CORE COMPETENCIES
- Ownership and Quality of Work: Effectively manages own work, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality work within a fast-paced environment.
- Organizational Commitment: Passionate, energetic, and driven to make a difference; Acts with honesty, integrity, and professionalism; Self-reflective, focused on development, and makes regular progress on development areas; Learns from mistakes and setbacks; Is adaptable and welcomes change.
- Upward Management: Engages at appropriate level with supervisor in defining desired outcomes, providing status updates, and obtaining input as to ongoing project direction and process; Keeps commitments and meets deadlines without the need for reminders; Proactively shares information in a timely manner.
- Collaboration: Works with colleagues, from across the organization, toward achieving common goals by sharing knowledge, learning, and building consensus. Proactively identifies relevant stakeholders and engages colleagues as needed to achieve goals.
- Communication: Uses effective written and oral communication with internal staff, teams, community served, and partners; demonstrates empathy and listening.
In this role you will:
Demonstrate excellence in tutoring:
- Collaborate with faculty team to develop an effective learning experience for students, with a focus on utilizing inclusive practices and achieving equitable outcomes
- Support courses by providing engaging tutoring and/or supplemental instruction in a blended or remote, synchronous classroom environment
- Empower students to develop competency by leveraging their diverse strengths and backgrounds and by sharing a passion for the subject and skills being taught
- Utilize technology-based teaching platforms, including but not limited to adaptive courseware to aid students in the development of competencies
- Communicate effectively, with consideration of how social, cultural, and power dynamics may impact the communication
Demonstrate, maintain, and continuously strengthen content expertise:
- Maintain current and active content knowledge in the expertise area that is reflected in tutoring and instruction
- Possess appropriate expertise in subject-area tutoring as demonstrated by appropriate credentials and experience
- Maintain current knowledge of field
Promote student success with a proactive, high-expectations, high-support approach:
- Demonstrate and share a passion for postsecondary success for diverse learners, especially in terms of achieving equitable outcomes
- Demonstrate flexibility in delivery and work schedule to provide personalized student support (including meeting outside of class hours and via different modalities)
- Identify gaps between student needs and existing resources and services; generate creative resolutions that promote equity and inclusivity
Engage in data-driven instruction and student support planning:
- Track student course data weekly to ensure success and equitable outcomes
- Engage in regular data-driven planning meetings with faculty and coaches to report student progress and obstacles and to plan student support interventions
- Engage in regular content area team meetings with faculty and other specialists to review curriculum plans, determine implications of student data, and plan curriculum revisions
- Participate in continuous improvement of UGC tutoring efforts
- Actively document and share suggestions for program improvement with supervisor to support ongoing development of UGC services and curriculum
Commit to continuous improvement of self and colleagues:
- Attend and actively participate in training opportunities provided in online and in-person settings
- Participate in self-reflection and ongoing learning to develop a shared culture of anti-racism and anti-oppression
- Contribute to a learning culture by participating in various other workshops and meetings.
Skills Required
- Excellent tutoring and classroom support skills—especially around quantitative reasoning and statistics
- Ability to consistently connect course content to its real-world relevance, tying concepts and theories from the classroom to students’ current and future work experiences, and highlighting immediate applicability of transfer skills
- Ability to differentiate tutoring and support based on student needs
- Willingness and ability to use data to inform tutoring and student support
- Effective collaboration skills, with ability to work in diverse teams to support student success and equitable outcomes
- Technology-proficient—able to quickly learn and utilize new tools and technologies
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Passionate about working with a diverse student body
- Agile, adaptable, and creative in pedagogy and student support
- Prepared, yet flexible
- Empathetic, yet structured
- Willing to pursue and support students in multiple modalities
- Expectation and desire to grow pedagogically
EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics or a related field required
- Prior teaching or tutoring experience strongly preferred
- Experience with digital tools for teaching and tutoring—especially with using a learning management system—preferred
- Experience teaching/tutoring in online, synchronous-remote, or blended/hybrid formats preferred
- Experience teaching or tutoring students of diverse backgrounds and abilities preferred
- Experience teaching or tutoring multilingual or multidialectal students preferred
- Spanish-English bilingual a plus
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