Tutoring Center Facilitator, January - June 18, 2025, Salem High School, Salem, MA SY2024-2025

Salem Public Schools

Salem is a small, diverse city with a proud maritime and immigrant history.  Salem Public School leaders are passionate about urban education and understand the urgency of improving student achievement.  They respect and value the racial, cultural, and linguistic diversity of our students and their families, and have a strong commitment to the Salem community.  Salem Public Schools seeks individuals who are able to serve all of our students, regardless of ability or language. Applicants who have experience working in urban schools and have bilingual skills are strongly encouraged to apply.

What You’ll Do:

The Tutoring Center at SHS supports students’ academic development and performance. You will manage this space when you are on shift, which includes a space for peer tutoring services and for Early College students to study. Additionally, you will facilitate communication and reporting across student support services and mentor peer tutors. 

Job Duties may include the following:

• Collaborate with SHS Library, Salem State University, IT department, and Early College coordinator to ensure communication flow and meaningful student support.
• Oversee center, including physical space, scheduling, and staffing.
• Communicate with students, staff, and families about student support.
• Tutor individual or small groups of students.
• Empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.

Role Responsibilities:

Working with the Early College coordinator, Early College student supports, building principal and Salem State University tutoring teams:

1. Tutoring

• Work with students individually or in small groups on assignments.
• Offer solutions when challenges arise with assignments to empower tutees to complete assignments with greater independence.
• Differentiate tutoring based on students’ learning styles and assignment demands, implementing a universal design for learning. 

2. Tutoring Support Center Facilitator

• Create an environment for students to access peer and teacher tutoring.
• Communicate to staff which students accessed the support center.
• Verify completed tutoring reports and manage online tutoring platform.
• Hire and schedule tutors. 
• Mentor peer tutors. 

3. Early College Support

• Support Early College Coordinator with scheduling and communicating student appointments. 
• Provide a space and access to support for college courses.

Hours Expected for the Position

• Flexible hours during the tutoring center day (7:30-3:30)

What You’ll Bring:

We are looking for candidates who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change children’s lives through education. You’ll be right at home here if you are a reflective practitioner who values collaboration with colleagues and pushes yourself, your work and the people around you to the next level. We expect our SPS employees to:

• Hold a deep commitment to students and families and value diversity - The SPS community is vibrant, diverse in background, ethnicity, language, and perspective. You embrace and affirm the backgrounds of all members of the SPS community and view our diversity as a powerful resource that supports us each in learning and doing our best work.
• Hold high expectations for yourself, students, and colleagues – You see potential in all, especially our SPS students, and maintain high expectations for achievement, while providing the support necessary to meet that bar. You hold yourself to high expectations, modeling SPS values and seeking opportunities to continuously improve.
• Build authentic, caring relationships with colleagues, students, and families – You build strong relationships across students, families, and colleagues that are collaborative in nature and contribute to the individual and collective success of SPS. You partner with families and colleagues to make decisions in the best interest of students and learning.
• Embrace feedback – You are a reflective practitioner who learns from failure, using mistakes and challenges as opportunities for growth. You model persistence and growth mindset and thrive in a culture of feedback.

Job Requirements:

• Background knowledge of tutoring pedagogy and Early College programming preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred
• Bilingual preferred
• Working with a diverse urban population 
• Experience working with high school students
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to collaborate with multiple partners
• Citizenship, residency or work VISA in the United States required

Pay: Hourly basis range from $20-25.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Salem Public School District is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, age, citizenship status, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or disability, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation.