Assistant Director, Academic Success & Tutoring Center

Stony Brook University; Stony Brook (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Stony Brook University’s Division of Undergraduate Education seeks an Assistant Director for the Academic Success & Tutoring Center to lead undergraduate academic skill-building initiatives, supervise professional staff, and advance evidence-based student support.

The role focuses on designing scalable interventions, coordinating coaching and tutoring services, assessing outcomes, and partnering with campus colleagues to promote an inclusive, high-impact learning environment.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree (foreign equivalent or higher degree).
• Three (3) years of full-time experience in learning center programs, tutoring services, academic support services, or a relevant student support service.
• Experience supervising full-time, professional staff.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and assess undergraduate academic skill-building and success initiatives, including professional coaching and tutoring.
• Supervise professional staff and foster their growth and development.
• Apply cognitive psychology and learning theory insights to strengthen programs and solve complex challenges.
• Lead program leadership and design for targeted academic interventions.
• Oversee administrative operations for service delivery and ensure high-quality student support.
• Track cohort-specific retention, persistence, and graduation metrics and analyze data to guide planning.

Skills

Staff supervision

Learning theory

Cognitive psychology

Student support services

Education

Master’s degree

Job description

Job Description - Assistant Director, Academic Success & Tutoring Center (2603822)

Assistant Director, Academic Success & Tutoring Center

We are the Division of Undergraduate Education

We are student-centered departments dedicated to fostering and enhancing the ever-evolving undergraduate academic experience.

We implement and support innovative teaching, advising, and student interventions that strategically promote student success, retention and graduation.

We strive to create meaningful relationships with students and value collaboration with colleagues across academic and administrative areas to ensure students experience an inclusive and engaging environment.

We are constantly evolving. We are a division of creative, forward thinking and solutions-focused staff, who are committed to professional growth, training, research initiatives and collaboration within our area and with campus partners.

Required Qualifications (as evidenced by an attached resume):

• Master’s degree (foreign equivalent or higher degree).
• Three (3) years of full-time experience in learning center programs, tutoring services, academic support services, or a relevant student support service.
• Experience supervising full-time, professional staff.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with undergraduate academic success coaching in a higher education setting with a focus on learning theory, metacognition, or using evidence-based learning strategies.
• At least one (1) year coordinating academic skill-building projects, programs, and/or services in a higher education setting.
• Experience with program assessment and cohort tracking.
• Experience interacting with a diverse student population in an academic setting.

Brief Description of Duties:

The Academic Success & Tutoring Center Assistant Director (AD) supports the design, implementation, and assessment of undergraduate academic skill-building and success initiatives, including professional academic coaching, peer-led academic skills tutoring, study groups, and academic success courses. The AD supervises professional staff while fostering their professional growth and development. The ideal candidate for this position has an understanding of cognitive psychology/ learning theory and the ability to look beyond day-to-day operations in an effort to strengthen programs, build effective systems, and solve complex challenges creatively.

Program Leadership and Design:

• Build scalable learning interventions, translating learning theory into effective practice across individualized, small-group, and classroom settings.
• Partner with the learning specialists to design targeted academic success interventions for undergraduate students.
• Oversee administrative operations related to academic skill-building service delivery, ensuring effective program coordination, efficient use of resources, and high-quality student support.
• Stay current with higher education research and national trends in undergraduate academic support, and bring relevant evidence-based strategies into center programming.

Staff Supervision and Team Development:

• Directly supervise, evaluate, and mentor professional staff
• Design and lead continuous training and professional learning opportunities for professional staff, emphasizing learning theory, metacognitive coaching strategies, and evidence-based student support practices

Assessment:

• Track cohort-specific retention, persistence, and graduation metrics using student success platforms.
• Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate program effectiveness, identify opportunities for improvement, inform mid-year and annual reports, and guide future planning and strategic decision-making.

Cross-Campus Engagement:

• Build and strengthen campus-wide partnerships to coordinate academic support efforts and advance shared university priorities and goals.
• Represent the Academic Success & Tutoring Center on division-wide and university-wide committees, orientations, and retention task forces.
• Assist the Division of Undergraduate Education priorities, including supporting division-wise success initiatives

Other duties or projects as assigned as appropriate to rank and departmental mission.

Special Notes:

This is a full-time appointment. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Minimum salary threshold must be met to maintain FLSA exemption.

In addition to the employee's base salary, this position is eligible for $4,150 UUP annual location pay, paid biweekly.

For this position, we are unable to sponsor candidates for work visas.

Stony Brook University is committed to excellence in the creation of an inclusive learning and working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.

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