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POSITION DESCRIPTION FOR: ___Program Coordinator, TAL_____________________

 

1.  Principle Duties and Responsibilities: Prioritize tasks and responsibilities and summarize them below.

 

  1. Assists the Director in the administration of the programs' activities and services and directs program services in the absence of the Director.
  2. Helps coordinate academic services and activities with the program.
  3. Supervises the operation of counseling, tutorial services, and linkage services.
  4. Makes work assignments and monitors performance to ensure compliance with project goals and objectives.
  5. Maintains records relevant to performance evaluations.
  6. Helps coordinate learning laboratory access and tutorial activities.
  7. Helps coordinate the development, design, and delivery of tutoring, special needs workshops and summer programs (Smart Start…Great Finish) to ensure compliance with college and program standards.
  8. Supervises and/or provides assistance in special needs areas, i.e., vocabulary, study and reading skills.
  9. Maintains a library of resources to provide academic, scholarship, and college application support and success assurance.
  10. Recommends purchase of materials to upgrade and/or expand learning support.
  11. Helps coordinate diagnostic assessment of academic skills to include reading, mathematics, learning styles and learning disabilities.
  12. Coordinates with counselors to provide regularly scheduled specialized academic and study skills improvement sessions and workshops.
  13. Coordinates excursions for World of Work, Job Shadow Day, cultural and academic enrichment.
  14. Performs other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

 

 

2.  Education/Knowledge Required:  Specify required degrees, experience, special skills and abilities necessary for satisfactory performance.

 

Bachelor's degree required, Master's preferred with three years academic experience in education, English and/or developmental studies; sensitivity to the needs of first-generation, low-income students and students with disabilities.  Experience in coordination of special programs and training for program participants which may include: program activities, tutorial and after-school support services, diagnostic assessments and specialized workshops.

 

 

 

3.  Supervision:  List all position titles reporting directly to this position, full-time or part-time.  Include student assistants and part-time faculty supervised in a typical semester.

 

None.

4.   Contacts:  Identify contacts required within and outside the college, and purpose of contacts. (Example: Contacts vendors for supplies and materials; or meets with tri-county public and private employers to determine training needs)

 

Board of Education Pupil Services staff, middle and high school principals and counselors, JTPA/PI staff, Department of Social Services staff all in an effort to provide participant services as outlined in the grant.

 

 

 

 

5.   Guidelines/Procedures/Regulations: Identify guidelines, procedures, instructions, regulations and laws within which the position functions.  Be specific.

 

EDGAR 34 CFR Parts 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, (84), 85, (85), 86, 97, 98 and 99

 

 

 

 

6.   Fiscal Responsibility:  Describe the fiscal responsibility.  Include total dollars that the position directly controls.

 

None.

 

7.   Physical Working Environment:  Describe the physical working environment and list any hazardous and toxic substances used in the performance of duties.

 

General office setting.

 

 

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