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Instructional Coordinator

Employer
Colorado State University
Location
Fort Collins, Colorado
Salary
$65,000-$75,000
Date posted
Jan 24, 2023

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Position Type
Faculty Positions
Employment Level
Non-Tenured Track
Employment Type
Full Time

Position Summary

Instructional Coordinators (ICs) bring professional-level industry experience in the specific content areas of the Master of Science in Microbiology and Immunology programs. This experience adds value and reinforces academic content to the students enrolled in the Department’s online graduate programs.

The Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology’s Master of Science in Microbiology and Immunology Program follows a lecture-capture, distributed learning model. Under this framework, the role of the Instructional Coordinator is to serve as the lead instructor for synchronous/asynchronous courses as needed and work closely with other lead faculty instructors to facilitate, extend, amplify, and mediate course instruction with online students taking off-cycle asynchronous course sections. By reinforcing and clarifying content, Instructional Coordinators ensure that each student keeps pace with the course as it progresses. Instructional Coordinators collaborate with the lead faculty before the course begins by discussing course content, learning objectives, student participation, assignments, and grading metrics. This collaboration and communication between the faculty and the ICs is ongoing from 2-3 weeks before courses begin until the debrief session after the course ends.

Instructional Coordinators allow the Program to extend the classroom experience to a large, diverse online audience. The Program and lead faculty provide students updated synchronous courses on a yearly basis, and the Instructional Coordinator will be responsible for managing selected off-cycle asynchronous course sections using material provided by the lead instructor. For example, MIP613 (Applied Microbiology and Virology) is provided synchronously by the lead instructor during the Fall semesters, and the IC will use the recorded Fall semester materials and existing Canvas sites to provide Spring and Summer asynchronous sections as needed. A complete list of courses provided by the Program can be found at (https://www.online.colostate.edu/degrees/microbiology/). Serving along with lead faculty, Instructional Coordinators clarify and reinforce course content and extend theory to practice. Instructional Coordinators oversee up to 100 online students in off-cycle course sections as needed based on class size and grading intensity/technology. They are the primary point of communication, grade assignments, hold virtual “office” hours, and recommend final grades to the lead faculty. For our online students, this is a significant role, as it connects them to the program during a time when they might otherwise feel disconnected. Instructional Coordinators provide a valuable high-touch level of customer service to the student while allowing the lead faculty to focus on developing and delivering quality content to students during the annual synchronous courses.

Instructional Coordinators provide a high level of student outreach and have the availability to frequently connect with students and team leads. They must be engaging, offering an increased and innovative presence in the online classroom to best serve the student and facilitate student success. Instructional Coordinators are expected to provide substantial and specific student feedback and offer a quick turnaround on grades. Instructional Coordinators reflect department and institutional values, and they are expected to foster CSU’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

 

Required Job Qualifications

  • Earned Master of Science or PhD in a relevant field of study by position start date.
  • Two years of full-time professional experience with a demonstrated progression in responsibility and authority, or equivalent teaching experience in related topic areas.
  • Excellent written communication skills·
  • Established evidence of effective interpersonal skills such as:
  • Working with a diverse team
  • Establishing collaborative relationships
  • A record of collegial and productive interactions with faculty, staff, and students
  • Coaching and mentoring others
  • Outstanding communication skills, including interpersonal, writing, presentation and listening skills
  • Commitment to enhancing the diversity, equity, and inclusion among students and staff ·
  • Demonstrated ability to self-direct and self-motivate
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) ·
  • Experience delivering supplemental teaching/coaching to students in order to promote mastery of course content and to provide specific feedback to foster understanding of content.
  • Willingness and ability to assist online students as needed.
  • Applicants must have technical and academic current skills/experience in one or more of the following content areas to serve in the Program as an Instructional Coordinator: Bacteriology, Virology, Immunology, Prion, Biodefense, Drug Development, Vaccine Development, Pathology, Human or Veterinary Medicine, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Public Health
  • The successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States by proposed start date. The Department or Program will not sponsor a visa for this position.

Preferred Job Qualifications

  • 2+ Years’ experience in the online learning environment.
  • 2+ Years’ experience managing courses within a Learning Management System (LMS) such as Canvas (Instructure), Blackboard, Moodle, etc.

Special Instructions to Applicants

Please submit a CV or resume addressing required and preferred qualifications, cover letter, statement of teaching philosophy, statement of research philosophy, statement of commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and names and contact information of three (3) professional references.

The successful candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States by proposed start date. The Department or Program will not sponsor a visa for this position.

For full consideration, please apply by 11:59PM MST on February 12, 2023, via https://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/119900 . Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

References will not be contacted without prior notification of candidates.

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