Function: Language Assessment

• Placement – Oversee the assessment and assignment of individual language placements (approximately 2,000 per year) to students in the 12+ languages currently offered for proficiency at Tulane.
• In collaboration with Newcomb-Tulane College, Undergraduate Admission, the Academic Advising Center, the Registrar’s Office, Technology Services, and New Student Orientation, create and maintain processes to see students through language advising and registration.
• In collaboration with Language Program Directors, identify and vet of third-party assessments.
• Support Language Program Directors in the development of in-house assessments.
• Proficiency – Oversee language proficiency testing of Tulane undergraduate and graduate students.
• In collaboration with language departments and programs and graduate programs, create and maintain processes to evaluate students’ language proficiency on recognized and accepted scales.
• Identify and vet of third-party assessments for languages offered at Tulane as well as Less Commonly Taught Languages.
• Oversee test registration, proctoring, and record-keeping.
• Program Assessment – Support language program assessment for beginning and intermediate programs, as well as language minors and majors.
• Assist in the regular assessment of language programs, including ongoing evaluation of program and course-level learning outcomes.
• Common Core – Assist in the preparation and assessment of the Foreign Language component of the Common Core Curriculum for purposes of university accreditation.
• Compile data to assess Common Core language learning outcomes.
• Prepare evidence and write reports for SACSCOC accreditation report

Function:  Revenue Generating Language Programming

• Support the Associate Dean for Language Pedagogy & Initiatives in the development and implementation of sustainable revenue generating language programming, i.e. summer institute, online programming, certificate offerings.

Function:  Language Educational Development

• Organize and facilitate workshops and other professional development opportunities for Tulane and community language instructors.
• Provide consultation services to language departments and programs regarding pedagogy and instruction, resources, program development and planning, assessment, etc.
• In collaboration with Associate Dean for Language Pedagogy & Initiatives, plan and host annual Tulane Language Learning Symposium.

Function:  Language Center Operations and Budget Management

• Ensure efficiency and timely handling of all administrative business of the Language Learning Center office. 
• Hires, trains, supervises, and evaluates clerical and technical employees (project assistant and tech support specialist) who staff the administrative office and the technology support room. 
• Manage the budget by conducting financial needs assessment (personnel, hardware, academic support resources, furnishings, and supplies) and by performing monthly budget analysis. 
• Oversee LLC spaces and resources, and ensure that hardware, software, and materials are updated and in good working order.
• Assist in oversight of Friedrich Stoll Endowed Scholar’s Fund, including calls for proposals, awards selection and distribution, and annual reporting to the Office on Donor Relations.

Apply here:  https://jobs.tulane.edu/position/IRC23856