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Learning Center Director

Job Group: Academic Services and Student Experience
Job Subgroup: Academic Skills Development
Salary Range (Annual): Scaled (expand for details)
Employee Category: Academic Staff
Job Code: AE162
  • Job Summary:
    Provides administrative direction and oversight, serves as the unit spokesperson, develops and fosters relationships with stakeholders in support of the program, and supervises staff in support of fostering a supportive program culture, and to ensure students receive quality academic and instructional services. Provides supplemental instruction for students enrolled in classroom, online and/or laboratory course(s) and the development of pedagogy/andragogy or assessment tools and resources to support quality student learning. Reviews, analyzes, and prioritizes student academic and demographic data to assess which students are the highest priority students to support with high-impact practices.
  • Job Responsibilities:
    • Oversees strategic planning and program budgets, including strategizing program objectives and goals, long-term planning, and developing policies and procedures as needed
    • Serves as the principal liaison between the program and stakeholders across campus, and provides clear, consistent communication with colleagues and broader audiences to articulate program goals
    • Designs curriculum and/or techniques for instruction in a disciplinary area and suggests new ways of effective instruction in courses within that discipline
    • Assesses student outcomes to ensure alignment with program goals, performs program assessments, and prepares reports for campus stakeholders
    • Develops teaching techniques that enhance course effectiveness in alignment with desired outcomes and established strategy and trains faculty and other instructional staff in use of said instructional techniques and programs
    • Provides supplemental instruction for students enrolled in classroom, online, and/or laboratory courses in a variety of formats such as one-on-one sessions, group sessions, peer mentor sessions, and seminars
    • Meets with students for intake and general assessment and makes referrals to others on campus as appropriate
    • Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
    • May develop grant proposals for instructional development and may serve as principal or co-principal investigator on grants to develop new teaching methods and program offerings in the discipline
  • Education:
    Master's Degree Preferred Minimum
  • FLSA Status:
    Exempt
  • Institution Job:
    No
  • Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees:
    Yes
  • Employee Category:
    Academic Staff
  • Scaled Job:
    Yes
  • Salary Range (Annual):
    • 25: $70,100-143,330
    • 24: $63,800-130,240 (B)
    • 23: $58,000-118,360 (C)
  • Job Code:
    • AE162: Learning Center Director
    • AE167: Learning Center Director (B)
    • AE168: Learning Center Director (C)
  • Link directly to this job title: https://hr.wisc.edu/standard-job-descriptions/?q=AE162

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