# Instructor

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: United States
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,500.00 - $110,200.00
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

Instructors are subject matter experts who teach and support a caseload of students enrolled in their assigned course(s).

Responsibilities:

- Develops instructional materials, aligned with identified learning objectives, course competencies, and instructional interventions

- Provides effective, relevant, and engaging one-to-many virtual events aligned with identified learning objectives

- Continually develops knowledge, skills, and expertise through active participation in faculty learning community and other developmental opportunities

- Provides proactive, relevant, timely, and effective one-to-one virtual instruction to students in a specific course or domain

- Facilitates student communities to support peer collaboration, effective faculty interaction, and student development

- Student-centered and provides effective one-to-one virtual coaching to help students achieve personal, academic, and career goals

- Adapts instructional and coaching practices to common and typical student needs

- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements:

- Master's degree in an AI- or machine learning-related field (such as Computer Science or Software Engineering)

- 3 years of relevant professional experience, including 1 year of teaching online

- Demonstrated subject matter expert in assigned content or practice area(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with distance education and distance learning students is preferred

- PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering; 2 - 3 years' experience teaching or in an engineering position

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual

- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual

- 11 paid holidays

- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- machine learning
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
- online teaching
- instructional design

### Nice to have
- distance education
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering

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