Open Resident Tutor Positions 2024-25

Resident Tutor Positions Available in Dudley Community

 

Dudley is seeking resident tutors/advisers for our undergraduate population for the 2024-25 academic year. Our undergraduate population includes off-campus students, students at the Dudley Co-op, and Visiting Undergraduate Students (VUS).  Our Resident tutor posotions are housed either with the Co-op or with the VUS. We invite applications from graduate students, post-docs, fellows or Lecturers with previous teaching and advising experience at Harvard, an interest in the advising of non-traditional students, and a desire to join a vibrant undergraduate student community. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

 

Applicants should:

  • Prepare  a resume or CV with the filename in the form Lastname.Firstname.CV.doc or .pdf (e.g. Smith.Jane.CV.doc)
  • Fill out the Dudley Tutor Application Form 2024-25 online - you will be able to submit your CV and any cover letter in that form as well as provide some basic info AND
  • Review the College's webpage about tutor positions, including the description of the Tutor role, which these Dudley-specific descriptions below supplement, and fill out the College-wide tutor application if it is open to submit (if open but past the priority deadline please submit your application there as well): 
  • Only if you cannot access or have trouble submitting the Dudley tutor application form, you can email  ududley@fas.harvard.edu and Chris Gilbert using subject line: Dudley Tutor Application.  Do not email to let us know you have applied or express your interest - submitting your application meets that goal and gets your interest and materials to the right people.

    DESCRIPTIONS:  
  • VIsiting Undergraduate Students (VUS) Resident Tutor:

    • Establish relationships with the Visiting Undergraduate Students. In a normal year, this would be focused on those living in 10 DeWolfe, and especially the ~ 20 students in the entryway, but for 2023-24 all VUS wll live off campus.

    • Maintain a safe and livable environment for students living in DeWolfe and for communicating and enforcing the rules of Dudley and the College. 

    • Plan and execute regular social activities for VUS both on and off-campus.

    • Serve as the primary academic adviser for approximately 8-12 visiting students per semester, including but not limited to individual and group advising meetings and course selection approval.

    • Support students through academic and personal difficulties. At times, engage in disciplinary actions involving enrolled students who may or may not be Visiting Undergraduates.

    • Work with the Campus Ambassador program to ensure student peer support and regular student-led activiies

    • As members of the Dudley Community tutorial staff, VUS tutors attend staff meetings and Dudley Community events as well as have specialty tutor rolesAssist with and participate in Dudley-wide community events. 

    • be present overnight at the Co-op while students are in residence (at least one of the two tutors should be on campus and in the Co-op overnight)
    • participate in the Dudley tutor on call structure to carry the emergency phone and respond to urgent issues across all Dudley students (one of the 3-4 resident tutors tutor is on-call at all times during the year, so each tutor is expected to be on call for about 25-33% the time).

    • assist with crisis management and emergency coverage for Dudley Community at large
       

  • Co-op  Resident Tutor
    The two Resident Tutors are important members of the Co-op community. The Dudley Co-op, founded in 1958 as an alternative to other on-campus housing at Harvard College, has a long and vibrant tradition as a progressive, participatory community. Housed in two Victorian homes located between Harvard and Porter squares, the Dudley Co-op offers an alternative to traditional undergraduate living. The Co-op is an intentional community of students, committed to the idea of cooperative living and seeking to achieve a measure of autonomy that the Houses do not ordinarily provide.  Co-op students purchase and make their own food, do their own chores, and make community decisions in regular co-op meetings. Respecting this desire on the part of the students, the resident tutors aim to let co-opers govern the house themselves as much as possible by encouraging co-opers to try to resolve issues among themselves. They will intervene to help negotiate difficult situations at times, often working closely with Co-op stewards of mediation to help resolve conflicts and encouraging communication among the students and between the students and the administration.  A crucial part of their role is to work in cooperation with the Resident Dean and the rest of the Dudley Community staff to ensure the health and well-being of the Co-op community and its members.

  • In order best to fulfill their roles, tutors need to be an active presence in the houses, which helps students feel more comfortable approaching them about tough issues. In addition to remaining approachable, tutors should keep an eye out for students who seem to be having difficulty. Resident Tutors at the Co-op help support the Co-op community as a whole and the individual students in residence. They are expected to:

  • know the Co-op students and join in dinners and community events
  • share their own intellectual and personal interests with students
  • advise students on general academic and personal issues and support students experiencing difficulty
  • help with issues of Co-op governance and communicate and enforce the rules of Dudley Community and Harvard College
  • be present overnight at the Co-op while students are in residence (at least one of the two tutors should be on campus and in the Co-op overnight)
  • participate in the Dudley tutor on call structure to carry the emergency phone and respond to urgent issues across all Dudley students (one of the 3-4 resident tutors tutor is on-call at all times during the year, so each tutor is expected to be on call for about 25-33% the time).
  • as members of the Dudley Community tutorial staff, Co-op tutors attend staff meetings and Dudley Community events as well as have specialty tutor roles
  • assist with nominations for prizes and fellowships
  • assist with crisis management and emergency coverage for Dudley Community at large

 

Resident Tutors report to the Dudley Community Resident Dean. Resident Tutors receive room and Board (Co-op tutors receive the Co-op Board plan and some meals in the GSAS Commons and VUS tutors receive 5 meals/week in a neighboring dining hall).

To be eligible to serve as a Dudley resident tutor, applicants must hold at least a bachelor’s degree, be a degree candidate in a Harvard graduate or professional school or hold a minimum of half-time employment at Harvard University in an exempt position. Harvard graduate students are strongly encouraged to apply.  

 

DUTIES OF ALL RESIDENT TUTORS:

Beyond the specific duties detailed for this role, all resident tutors are expected to fufill the duties specifid by the College for resident tutors, attend College-wide tutor training, Dudley tutor staff traning and regular meetings (most likely bi-weekly) and to help out with the Dudley undergraduate community broadly. This includes, but is not limited to, taking on some specialty/affinity roles (e.g. webmaster; communications; specialty tutors: Race Relations, BGLTQ, Sexual Health/Sexual Assault, HoCo, Public Service, Wellness, FGLI), attending and in some cases helping to staff Dudley events, pitching in as needed, participating in the tutor on-call rotation, and occasionally serving as back-up for the Resident Dean, including participating in the rotation over breaks and providing emergency coverage for Dudley during the term.

This position descriptions and eligibility criteria supplements the general Resident Tutor description, found here: https://dso.college.harvard.edu/proctors-tutors#widget-0

 

 

Harvard is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.