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About the Role
Brooklyn Law School seeks an Associate or Assistant Director of Academic Success to join its Academic and Student Success program. This role is crucial for fostering high student achievement and supporting students throughout their law school journey and into their professional careers.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the 1L specialist and responsible success professional for part-time students.
- Teach academic success courses (not to exceed 4 courses in an academic year) and provide other targeted academic support to students.
- Conduct skills workshops on learning strategies, test-taking, time management, and organizational skills.
- Provide academic advice and support to students individually and through program expansion to ensure wellbeing, successful completion of law school, and bar passage.
- Assist students in developing an academic plan.
- Prepare reports on student outcomes and program accomplishments.
- Employ student outcomes data to identify students needing early intervention and assess programming effectiveness.
- Use predictive data to assess curricular needs.
- Assist in evaluating and improving the law school’s support programming.
- Engage with faculty and other offices to support student learning.
- Stay abreast of trends in academic success and bar support.
- Perform additional related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Specific experience in instruction related to academic success, legal writing, and bar preparation.
- J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school.
- Admitted upon examination to the bar of any state.
- Experience in law teaching, preferably in an academic-success or legal writing program.
- Teaching experience in the first year is desirable.
- For Associate Director: 5 or more years of experience as an academic success professional with demonstrable measures of success regarding student outcomes.
- For Assistant Director: Less than 5 years of experience in academic success or other law school teaching.
- Facility in supporting students with learning differences.
- Ability to work collaboratively with the Director of Accessibility.
- Experience advising students on time management, executive function skills, and coping strategies.
- Experience working with students of varying ages, academic achievement, and lived experience.
- Experience with assessment and data collection.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities under deadlines.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability and interest in conducting research on student success trends in law school and on the bar exam.
Skills
- Academic success instruction
- Legal writing
- Bar preparation
- Law teaching
- Learning strategies
- Test-taking strategies
- Time management
- Organizational skills
- Academic advising
- Student support
- Data collection and analysis
- Assessment
- Intervention strategies
- Curricular development
- Program evaluation
- Faculty and administrative collaboration
- Research
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Interpersonal skills
Location
- Downtown Brooklyn, New York
Work Type
- Full-time
- Primarily on-site
- Limited remote work flexibility
- Limited on-site weekend work required
Experience Level
- Associate Director: 5+ years of experience as an academic success professional
- Assistant Director: Less than 5 years of experience in academic success or law school teaching
Education Level
- J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school
- Admitted to the bar of any state
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000 to $120,000
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
- Sick, personal, and vacation paid time off
- Generous retirement plan
- Dependent tuition scholarship (Pre K- undergraduate college)
- Additional summer Friday PTO
About the Company
- Founded in 1901, Brooklyn Law School is a distinguished, independent law school located in Downtown Brooklyn, New York.
Equal Opportunity
- It is the policy of Brooklyn Law School to be impartial in the treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to race, creed, religion, color, natural origin, citizenship status, gender, age, veteran status, disability, marital status, union affiliation, political affiliation, sexual orientation or preferences or any other legal protected status.