Director, Writing Center
South Texas College of Law Houston
- Houston, TX
- $79,000-91,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- The Legal Writing Center Director will support the mission of the law school by directing the South Texas College of Law Houston Legal Writing Center. The Director will work alongside the Legal Research & Writing (LRW) faculty to help South Texas College of Law Houston students become practice-ready legal writers.
- The Legal Writing Director oversees staff, budget, and projects in the Center.
- The Legal Writing Director works one-on-one with students to teach writing and revision skills.
- The Legal Writing Director will collaborate with the LRW faculty in evaluating, teaching, and otherwise assisting students with their writing skills.
- Provide oversight, planning, leadership, and direction for all aspects of the Center.
- Provide one-on-one tutoring to students who seek help with fundamental writing issues, including grammar, punctuation, and paragraph structure.
- Provide one-on-one tutoring to first-year students who seek help with 1L writing projects.
- Administer and review diagnostic writing assessments for all first-year students to be given at the beginning and end of the first-year legal writing program.
- Design and implement writing support workshops on basic writing skills open to all law students.
- Support the writing center’s online presence with content providing writing tips & information.
- Work collaboratively with the LRW faculty to address the needs of individual students who display writing challenges. Provide one-on-one tutoring to first-year students who seek help with various writing skills.
- Gather, input, and assess data collected to assess the success of the writing center.
- Provide administrative support to the writing center, which will include keeping records of those who attend workshops and come to office hours for writing support.
- Comply with all aspects of the law school’s Customer Service Standards.
- Fulfill other duties as assigned.
- JD degree required. Additional graduate experience in education or English welcomed.
- Significant experience working with students is required.
- Leadership experience administering programs preferred.
- Experience teaching or tutoring writing in an academic or legal setting preferred.
- Must be professional and confidential with all department data and correspondence.
- The person must have a poised and professional image; strong ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast paced environment; excellent interpersonal skills; and the ability to interact effectively and efficiently with all employees, visitors, and students while projecting a positive image for the law school.
- The person must be service oriented to make all students feel welcome.
- Must be computer literate with proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) with ability to learn new programs as necessary.
- Must be detail-oriented and able to work in a fast-paced multi-tasking environment.
- Experience working with ESL/EAL students on fundamentals of English language is preferred.
- Knowledge of adult learning theories.
- Ability to interpret and explain complex data.
- Ability to effectively and professionally communicate in one-on-one and small group situations to students, faculty, and other law school employees.
- Ability to perform basic to intermediate math is essential.
- Must possess the ability to analyze numerical data and detect patterns, errors, and trends.
- Ability to define routine problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions to solve routine problems and/or deal with a variety of variables in situations, especially when department head may be out of office or unavailable.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.