Tutor - center

Student Tutor Position Description

Cincinnati State Technical and Community College

Tutoring Center (TC)

Tutoring Center Student Tutor Job Description

Purpose: The purpose of tutoring is to tutor students in specific course material and integrate study and learning strategies to promote independent learning. Student tutors will provide individual and/or small group tutoring in subjects in which the tutor has attained a grade of B or higher. Tutors will participate in face-to-face and online training to learn how to integrate effective study and learning strategies to maximize the student's potential for academic progress.

As a member of the Tutoring Center's team, tutors must maintain ongoing communication with the Director of the Tutoring Center. All correspondence pertaining to scheduling or changing an appointment time, etc., must be sent via e-mail, and always carbon to the Director.

Responsibilities

• Tutor students in specific course material and integrate study and learning strategies to promote independent learning. This can be done in a one-on-one session or small-group session (no more than three to four students for the same subject).
• Once you become a student tutor, it will be important to check your email at least once a day, this includes the weekends.
• Attend all workshops and/or seminars offered by the Tutoring Center Director.
• Have students sign-in and sign-out at the computer kiosk located on the floor next to Ms. Greenlee's office. Please do not sign in for your students.
• Arrive on time for each tutoring appointment and if an emergency arises, please try to secure a replacement for that hour or that day by contacting another student tutor who tutors the same subject. If you do not know who is tutoring your same subjects(s), simply send an e-mail to Ms. Greenlee.
• Tutors must refrain from the following:
• Tutors are not teachers
• Tutors are not counselors
• Tutors are not academic advisors
• Tutors are not financial aid representatives, etc.
  
  

Therefore, at no time is it the tutor's responsibility to assume any of these roles. A tutor's job is to tutor and bring to the Director's attention any communication outside the scope of his or her tutoring role.

Position Requirements

• Prior to becoming a student tutor, you must be currently enrolled as a Cincinnati State student and have completed one full semester.
• Demonstrate an ability to quickly establish rapport and communicate well with students.
• Complete the course(s) in which he/she wishes to tutor earning a B or better. A grade of A is preferred.
• Exhibit excellent interpersonal communication skills and ease in relating to people from varying educational, cultural, and social backgrounds.
• Exhibit excellent level of responsibility, reliability, and punctuality.
• Always exhibit appropriate and professional behavior.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

The hiring of student workers by Cincinnati State is premised on eligibility guidelines for federal work study employment: eligible applicants must be high school graduates or have attained a GED. Additionally, eligible applicants for work study positions at Cincinnati State must be at least 16 years of age on or before the date of hire. Eligible students must:

• Have completed a FAFSA for the current school year.
• Meet and continue to meet Satisfactory Academic Progress.
• Be a United States citizen or eligible non-citizen.
• Demonstrate financial need.
• Be an active student at Cincinnati State.
  
  

Hourly Pay: $14.00 per hour

Work Hours: Part-Time, up to 20 hours per week

Office Hours are between Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Students may not work during their scheduled class times or holidays.

If you are interested in joining the Tutoring Center team here a Cincinnati State, please e-mail Ms. Greenlee at [email protected] but ALSO please complete the application online as well.

Cincinnati State Is An E-Verify Employer

• If you're hired, you must complete a Form I-9, which verifies your identity and your legal right to work in the U.S.
• You'll need to provide original, acceptable documents-no photocopies-to complete the I-9 process.
• A list of acceptable documents can be seen here: USCIS I-9 website
  
  

STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT

• The institution declares that it will educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth.
• The institution declares that its duty is to equip students with the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions.
• The institution declares its commitment to not requiring, favoring, disfavoring, or prohibiting speech or lawful assembly.
• The institution declares it is committed to create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community.
• The institution declares that its duty is to treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, to hold them to equal standards, and to provide them equality of opportunity, with regard to those individuals' race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.