College Writing Program
Graduate Student Employment Opportunities
JOB TITLE: Instructor Training Coordinator
This position has been filled.
The Instructor Training coordinator helps the Writing Program director and/or the associate director
- develop and coordinate instructor training for new WRT 105 instructors, including arranging meetings, preparing and distributing appropriate training materials, visiting classes, and assisting instructors as needed;
- develop and co-teach WRT 571, the summer training seminar that prepares new instructors to teach in the writing program (WRT 571 holds classess mid-May to mid-June and during the last two weeks of August), and
- develop and coordinate WRT 572, a series of practicums held throughout the academic year to support writing instruction; and
- keep records and compile program data.
The Instructor Training coordinator will also work closely with the Writing Program director or associate director and the Writing Center coordinator to ensure the smooth functioning of the Writing Program.
Applicants should be accomplished educators who have taught successfully within the writing program for several semesters (preferably four or more). Compensation for this position is $14,000 plus $2,000 for co-teaching WRT 571 in the summer. The coordinator also has the option to teach the summer session of WRT 105, during their 2nd year as coordinator, for which there will be an additional compensation of $3,000. The position start date is March 1.
A coordinator may apply to hold this position for a second 2-year term.
Application for Instructor Training coordinator
- please send a letter of application explaining what you could bring to this position, a C.V., two sets of teaching evaluations,
- and a letter of recommendation that speaks to your teaching and organizational abilities by January 31, to:
Dr. Deborah Rossen-Knill
Director, College Writing Program
Rush Rhees Library G-121
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
If you apply for a teaching position and a coordinator position (with the understanding that you would be offered only one of these positions), you may present one application package for both. However, you must clearly indicate this in your cover letter, and clearly mark components of your package that are applicable to only one of the positions.
The review committee for the coordinator positions consists of, at minimum, the Writing Program director and/or the associate director or the current coordinator for the posted position.