at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 50587
Department: Law Student Services
Salary/Grade: EXS/11
Target hiring range for this position will be between $98,447 to $130,000 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Job Summary:
Responsible for curating and directing all academic success programming, counseling JD students on their academic preparation and success, providing bar exam support, and supporting the Associate Dean of Student Services as needed. This includes planning, coordination, project management, internal and external networking, conflict management, and teamwork within Student Services as outlined in the duties described below.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Create and manage all academic excellence programming in Summer, Fall, and Spring, to most effectively, efficiently, and successfully meet the academic support needs of Northwestern Law students.
- Advise and counsel individual students on academic issues, educational decisions, academic progress and performance, and objectives.
- Participate in the Dean’s Wraparound Support initiative which involves providing strategic, intentional support to at-risk first-year students
- Develop and teach courses designed to provide academic support to at-risk students and to develop skills critical to student success, including executive functioning, effective legal writing, exam preparation, time management, and organization.
- Provide bar passage support through bar preparation courses taught to targeted third year students, individualized support, and the organization and oversight of supplement bar preparation programming during the summer
- Conduct state bar character and fitness counseling with students and work with the Dean of Students and state bar examiners on character and fitness reports and issues.
- Solicit, select, and supervise APEx Advisors (second and third year law students) who will support Director and counsel law students.
- Organize and manage the intensive pre-matriculation Summer Law Preparation Program. Serve as lead instructor in the program and coordinate all sessions taught by others.
- Form n
