Course Manager – Geoscience

Job Posting Title:

Course Manager – Geoscience

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Hiring Department:

OnRamps

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

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Job Details:

General Notes

This position requires up to 5% travel throughout the state of Texas, ongoing weekend and evening work to support course implementation, including during summer, spring, and fall professional learning institutes and enrollment deadlines.

Purpose

To lead efforts and ensure fidelity of implementation of the OnRamps Geoscience course and to coordinate a high-level of instructional and professional development service and support to OnRamps Instructors, OnRamps Students, and UT Faculty.

Responsibilities

• Supervise full-time staff to ensure the provision of 1:1 instructional, professional development, and technical service and support to instructors to ensure implementation fidelity, teacher growth in OnRamps four pillars, and retention. Manage systems to provide just in time support to instructors using standardized support strategies. Design and implement strategic interventions for teachers/student improvement.
• Create and oversee the grading mechanism approved by the Instructor of Record is executed with fidelity, including grading and/or supervising grading of college eligibility and college credit assignments, calibration, quality assurance protocols, and other intensive assessment activities.
• Lead the design and implemention of annual professional learning institutes during Summer, Fall, and Spring for Onramps instructors in close collaboration with OnRamps Assistant Director, and Professional Learning and Development team to ensure and enhance course implementation aligned to the OnRamps four pillars.
• Use standardized relationship building strategies to cultivate and lead a facilitated network of Onramps Instructors within the assigned course subject-area through yearlong, ongoing professional development activities by maintaining weekly Newsletters, monthly virtual conferences, and virtual or in-person site visits as needed.
• Design and oversee the the systems to monitor and support curriculum implementation to ensure fidelity to the pillar of college-aligned content.  Ensure resources for instructors are current and accessible. Provide feedback to students as needed, including using data to observe student engagment and processing instances of academic integrity.
• Utilize data that illuminates student learning and engagement which could include course engagement, college submissions, and learning outcomes. Employ a data driven decision process that guides professional learning, instructor and student support, enhancement proposals, and daily workflows.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships by communicating and collaborating effectively with internal and external stakeholders to align work and collectively serve the OnRamps mission. Modes include online, telephone, and in-person communication. Provide exceptional customer service, technical support, and a willingness to solve problems  with professionalism, positivity, tact and decorum.
• Support and engage in designated special projects and initiatives that are aligned with the OnRamps mission and extend beyond regular course and professional learning eperiences.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Geoscience, Geology, Environmental Science or closely related field and five years teaching experience at a high school or college level.
• Proficient in Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) or another LMS.
• Exceptional customer service skills, with the ability to engage multiple internal and external stakeholders with decorum and tact.
• Ability to communicate technical information to lay audiences using a respectful, client-focused approach.
• Demonstrated understanding of HS teaching and learning in Science courses.

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree.
• More than five years of experience managing projects in an enterprise or educational environment.
• Experience with Project Management Tools, e.g., Smartsheet; Learning Management Systems, e.g., Canvas; Human Resources Systems, e.g., Workday.
• Two or more years of experience working in Event Planning and Management.

Salary Range

$80,000 + depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

• Hybrid work environment – typically two days a week in the office and three days a week from a remote office.
• May work around standard office conditions.
• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation.
• Climbing of stairs.

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Employment Eligibility:

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

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Retirement Plan Eligibility:

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

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Background Checks:

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

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Equal Opportunity Employer:

The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer , complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

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Pay Transparency:

The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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Employment Eligibility Verification:

If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form.  You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States.  Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment.  Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.

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E-Verify:

The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. The university’s company ID number for purposes of E-Verify is 854197. For more information about E-Verify, please see the following:

• E-Verify Poster (English) [PDF]
• E-Verify Poster (Spanish) [PDF]
• Right To Work Poster (English) [PDF]
• Right To Work Poster (Spanish) [PDF]

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Compliance:

Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in HOP-3031 .

The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.