SUMMARY

• 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.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• 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.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervisory responsibility for department employees

QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 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.

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PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. Ability to lift up to 20lbs. Lifting from floor level, at waist, and above shoulders required. Infrequent bending and stooping necessary. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision in order to accurately input data and proofread; distance vision in order to recognize and assist visitors to the department.

WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Extremely fast-paced, multi-tasking, non-smoking work environment. Must be able to work the general business schedule of the law school (9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) plus ability and willingness to travel and work evenings and weekends as necessary, and to staff events.

Competitive Benefits Package for full-time staff

· All Health/Dental/Vision Insurance Coverage Effective on your date of hire

· CIGNA Plus Medical & Prescription Coverage (Employee Only Semi-Monthly $71.92)

· CIGNA Dental & Vision (Employee Only Semi-Monthly $3.56)

· HSA/FSA Medical Savings Accounts

· Pet Insurance.

· Life Insurance covered by the law school at two times your basic annual salary.

· Optional Life Insurance for employee and spouse

· Short & Long Term Disability coverage no cost to employee

· 403(b) employee only contribution; auto-enrolled at 2%

· 401(a) Employer contributes 8% of your salary after 1 year and worked 1,000 hours.

· Paid Leave Time, New Employees earn 1 day (7.5 hours) per month

· Sick Leave Time, New Employees Sick leave will be prorated based on the hire date at 9.375 hours per month for the first partial year of employment. On January 1st, staff employees are eligible for 15 days sick leave at full pay.

· 18 Paid Holidays 2024

· Employee and Dependent Tuition Remission options

· FREE Downtown Employee Parking

· Discount Tickets to STCLH Sporting Events for Employee and Family

· On Campus Cafe

Required Skills

Required Experience

• The individual must be results oriented with a desire to make things better. This requires both critical thinking skills and the ability to translate those into action that drives results.
• Team Orientation is doing what is best for the organization foremost, by providing value and a solid contribution. This role is about working to achieve team and business goals.
• Due to the large number of internal and external stakeholders, the individual filling this role must have the ability to communicate effectively to direct and motivate others with a very credible and persuasive presentation style. The job requires the ability to build relationships and develop consensus across a broad range of people and personalities. Strong ability to influence without direct control.
• Sustainability is important and a business priority. As our business continues to grow in North America, this role may have frequent changes of priorities. A tolerance for ambiguity is necessary at times.
• Possess a strong interest in sustainability topics, such as climate and circular economy
• Adept at taking initiative and driving results
• Strong internal drive to work independently, but also enjoys working on a team
• Goal oriented
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills including the ability to interact effectively with all levels of personnel
• Good communications skills, both written and oral

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of Sustainability Systems
• Experience with system implementation