Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Yorkville University is a private, for-profit, fully accredited degree-granting university that focuses on democratizing education. They are seeking an Educational Developer to support faculty development, enhance teaching practices, and improve student learning across diverse disciplines, particularly in Nursing and Health Sciences.
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver faculty programming
- Partner with and support faculty
- Support and welcome new faculty
- Collaborate and build relationships
- Advance teaching excellence and innovation
Skills
- Completed a Master's degree in a relevant field
- Knowledge of educational development and scholarship in higher education
- Completed the Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW) Certificate through the ISW Network
- Experience facilitating Instructional Skills Workshops (ISWs) for faculty and academic staff
- Experience supporting faculty through educational development, including consultation, workshop facilitation, curriculum design and development, or a combination of these areas
- Understanding that effective educational development is relational and contextual
- Knowledge of current educational research and evidence-informed approaches to teaching and learning in higher education
- Experience teaching in higher education and contributing to the scholarship of teaching and learning
- Comfortable working with learning management systems, educational technologies, and digital teaching tools
- Proficient with Microsoft Office tools, including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and OneNote
- Ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies that support faculty development and teaching excellence
- Ability to work independently while staying closely connected to a virtual team
- Ability to take initiative, manage competing priorities and deadlines, and adapt as needs evolve
- Ability to present ideas clearly, exchange constructive feedback, and build trusted relationships with faculty, academic leaders, and colleagues across disciplines and campuses
- Commitment to advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, access, and accessibility within higher education
- Curiosity and thoughtful awareness to how different identities, lived experiences, disciplines, and learning environments influence teaching and educational development
Benefits
- Paid time away
- Retirement savings matching
- Extended health coverage with 80% of premiums paid
- After 12 months of full-time employment, there is also tuition-free access to all our education programs
- Access tuition-free courses across our institutions - from certificates to master’s degrees
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