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Instructor

Western Governors University (WGU) United States senior full-time

Salary

$73,500 - $110,200 per year

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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

Nice to have

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