St. Francis College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, sex, religion, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
Position: Laboratory Teaching Assistant, 12 month position
Department: Biology
Reports to: Department Chair, Biology and Health Promotion
Job Summary: Assist with supervising and teaching laboratory and recitation sections of departmental courses. Work with Department Chair and supervising faculty member with respect to ordering appropriate supplies and equipment for the labs.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities include the teaching of five (5) lab sections in each of the fall and spring semesters. Related duties include grading of lab reports, ensuring proper set up of laboratories, coordination of labs, preparing lab exams, and proctoring final exams in the department.
- Meet regularly with the faculty member in charge of the courses. Provide status updates to Department Chair.
- Assist supervising faculty member and department chair in preparation of ordering of supplies and equipment for the labs.
- Teach labs for summer courses, the summer science academy or any other lab projects that are established for the summers.
- During summers, create, testing, evaluate new labs that may be offered in the future.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Biology; Master’s degree in Biology preferred
- Prior teaching experience a plus
- Good presentation skills
- Ability to work effectively with diverse individuals
- Experience working in higher education desired
Position: Part-Time Academic Counselor/Instructor
Department: Freshman Studies & Academic Advisement
Reports to: Assistant Dean of Freshman Studies & Academic Enhancement
Job Summary: On a part-time basis, act as a resource for first and second year students by providing student-centered academic advising and relevant instruction. To ensure continuity of student progress, ideally those hired into this position can offer a minimum of a one-year commitment.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as an Instructor for 4 sections of Freshmen Seminar Courses (Orientation class) during the Fall and Spring semesters.
- Provide student-centered academic advising to undergraduate students, with an emphasis on services to first year and second year students.
- Assist students in the development of academic plans and class schedules. appropriate for their stated educational goals, guiding pre-majors in the selection of academic majors, and providing guidance in their career exploration process.
- Responsible for developing and maintaining case file and records in order to monitor progress of approximately 150 students.
- Participate in the summer orientation of incoming students.
- Stay abreast of the college’s rules and policies and direct students to resources within the College, as appropriate.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Current enrollment in an accredited Masters degree program in the area of counseling, social work, higher education, or a related field preferred
- Ability to work 20 hours over a minimum of 3 days a week
- Strong communication/presentational and team building skills preferred
Position: Part-Time Academic Advisor and Transfer Student Coordinator
Department: Freshman Studies & Academic Advisement
Reports to: Assistant Dean of Freshman Studies & Academic Enhancement
Job Summary: On a part-time basis, act as a resource for transfer, adult learner and freshmen year students by providing student-centered academic advising and relevant instruction. To ensure continuity of student progress, ideally those hired into this position can offer a minimum of a one-year commitment.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide student-centered academic advising to undergraduate students, with an emphasis on services to adult learner and transfer student populations.
- Assist students in the development of academic plans and class schedules appropriate for their stated educational goals while endeavoring to help them achieve their academic goals. These efforts may include, but are not limited to: career exploration, advising, registration, program changes, course planning, transfer credits, and degree and certificate completion requirements.
- Assist in incoming student orientation sessions.
- Serve as a liaison between faculty advisors and transfer students to facilitate major and career planning discussions.
- Attend the College’s Open House and speak with students interested in transferring to the college.
- Serve as an Instructor for approximately 1-2 sections of Freshmen Seminar (college transition course) during the Fall and Spring semesters; Involves academic advising and teaching traditional freshmen college survival skills.
- Develop and maintain case file and records of approximately 200 students in order to monitor student progress, and provide a summative report when required.
- Stay abreast of the college’s rules and policies and direct students to resources within the College, as appropriate.
- Perform any other related duties as directed by the Assistant Dean of Freshman Studies and Academic Enhancement.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Candidates must either be currently enrolled in a Masters degree program or have a Masters degree from an accredited program, preferably in the area of higher education, counseling, social work or related field
- Ability to work 20 hours over a minimum of 3 days a week. In order to serve the evening and transfer student population, evening hours will be required (approximate schedule: 11:30am-7:30pm)
- Strong communication/presentational and team building skills preferred
Position:
Student Financial Services Counselor
Department: Student Financial Services
Reports to: Associate Director of Student Financial Services
Job Summary: Counsel students and parents regarding financial aid programs and procedures. Prepare student financial aid packages.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare student financial aid packages, including awarding, needs analysis, and verification.
- Advise students on methods to pay tuition and fees, which includes but is advisement regarding invoices, account balances, financial aid status, monthly payment plans, and general inquiries related to financial matters.
- Respond to and resolve student inquiries made by phone, email, or in person in a timely and professional manner.
- Participate at special functions such as high school college events and open houses.
- Participate in special committees as part of developing the Student Financial Services Office.
- Work with fellow colleagues in other departments to assist in meeting enrollment goals.
- Serve as liaison between the college and federal, state, local and third party agencies and lending institutions.
- Understand and adhere to all federal, state, and local regulations regarding the distribution and reconciliation of Title IV funds.
- Communicate on a regular basis with the athletic department to ensure that applicable NCAA regulations are understood and are being followed for enrolled or prospective student-athletes.
- Perform other duties as assigned in support of the College’s mission and goals.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Strong analytical skills in order to make professional judgment decisions on student aid packaging and special payment arrangements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Computer proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel. Familiarity with database functionality
- Ability to work additional hours during peak periods.
- Bilingual in English and another language a plus.
Position: Datatel Programmer/Analyst
Department: Information Technology
Reports to: Administrative Application Manager
Job Summary: Responsible for custom software development, day-to-day support and administration of Datatel Colleague, the college-wide administrative system. The ideal candidate will be able to work in a team and have a background in Datatel Colleague, UniData RDBMS, Unix, Linux and Perl, Java and Unix shell scripting.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform software development projects using Colleague Studio, Perl and Korn shell
- Perform day-to-day support and assist in the administration of the Colleague system
- Perform upgrades and maintenance of Colleague, WebAdvisor and the Datatel user interface
- Support and maintain Informer, a reporting software tool for Colleague
- Administer data exchanges to/from Colleague, Blackboard One Card, Angel LMS and other college systems
- Provide documentation and project plans for projects
- Provide recommendations on the use of the Colleague software and how to best satisfy the business needs of the users
- Prepare and maintain scripts for automation of job scheduling which includes Korn shell scripting, Perl and Unix administration
- Maintain required auditor processes and provide documentation of such processes
- Perform other duties as requested
Required Qualifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science or related field
- A minimum of three years experience in software development and database administration
- Strong knowledge of Unix including AIX and Linux
- Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to analyze a problem, determine the optimal solution, test and produce documentation
- Must be able to work independently as well as a member of a team
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written
- Experience with working with 3rd party hardware and software vendors
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
- BS Expertise in Colleague, Colleague Advancement, WebAdvisor and Informer
- Experience in UniData RDBMS, UniQuery, UniBasic and the Colleague Studio
- Experience in IBM Hypervisor, HMC, LPARs and Fibre channel SANs
- Experience in Portal administration and development
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to hr@stfranciscollege.edu and please include Datatel Programmer/Analyst in the subject line of your email.
Faculty Positions
St. Francis College seeks a Lecturer (Non-Tenure Track) in the Department of English, beginning Fall 2010. This position responsibilities are: primarily, to teach first year writing courses; possibly, advanced or creative writing courses; and, literature courses.
The selected candidate will have a Masters Degree in English and 3 years of experience teaching composition.
Interested applicants should forward a resume and cover letter to hr@stfranciscollege.edu Candidates invited to interview will also be asked to provide three letters of reference.
Position: Part-Time Stacks Coordinator
Department: Library
Reports to: Director of Library Services
Schedule: 15-20 hours/week. Scheduling can be flexible but hours must be worked between 9am-5pm, coordinated at the discretion of the Director of Library Services and Assistant Director of Library Services
Job Summary: Provide stacks maintenance support and services at the circulation desk.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Gather, sort and shelve books and media.
- Shelf-read the stacks and other collections for proper call number order.
- Straighten the shelves of books, update aisle markers as needed.
- Shift tight areas.
- Search the stacks for books reported missing or billed for replacement.
- Report maintenance or security problems (lights out, graffiti, broken furniture, stashed materials, food, etc.) to supervisor.
- Help patrons locate materials.
- Train new student workers to assist with stacks maintenance.
- Check out and check in books, reserve items, netbooks and other library materials.
- Process holds, recalls, renewals and other patron requests.
- Answer basic library holdings and library policy questions.
- Provide basic copy machine assistance.
- Assist with course reserve processing.
- Answer phone calls, reply to e-mail directed to the circulation desk, and process the daily circulation notices when needed.
- Accept payments for fines; issue receipts for same.
- Register new patrons; update records as necessary.
- Assist with special projects, as needed.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma; some college experience preferred
- Ability to sort and file using Library of Congress classification
- Strong organizational skills
- Good supervisory, interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to push a heavy wheeled cart, bend and reach to shelve books, and stand for long periods
- Ability to work effectively in a collegial environment