Labor Resource Center Position Descriptions

This page includes an array of sample position descriptions: WPA (director, assistant/associate director); Writing Center (director, assistant/associate director); Department Chair. Unless contributors request using the name of their institution, we indicate only the type and location.

If you have examples of position descriptions (that you find especially helpful or even problematic), or if you have suggestions/ideas for materials you’d like to see here, contact us at CWPALRC@gmail.com.

First-Year Writing/Composition/Writing Program Positions

• WPA (First-Year English Director), branch campus of public research-extensive institution in New England region

• First-Year Writing Program Staff (all positions), large, public, research extensive university in the Southeast

• WPA, small/medium Jesuit institution in the Northeast

• Coordinator of Composition, medium, public, regional comprehensive university in the North Central region

• First-Year Writing Program Coordinator, medium, public, regional/branch campus in the Great Lakes region

• First-Year Writing Director, small/medium, public, regional/branch campus in the Southeast

• Writing Program (First-Year and Upper Division Courses) Director and Associate Director, large, public research extensive university in the Mid-Atlantic region

• Associate Director, FYW Program, small/medium, public, regional comprehensive university in the Southeast

Writing Center Positions

• Director, medium, public, regional/branch campus in the Great Lakes Region

Other Kinds of Description Docs

• Combined FYC/WC/Advanced Writing

• Position Description Letter