[Hiring] Christian Leadership Online Adjunct @Liberty University

Role Description

Adjuncts are essential to Liberty University’s mission of Training Champions for Christ. It is expected that an adjunct member models a personal commitment to the goals and values of Liberty University, engages in an active commitment to, and experience of, personal spiritual formation within a biblically informed Christian worldview. Adjuncts should view their teaching, engagement with students, and scholarship as a means to a significant educational end. They should strive to employ a variety of techniques for the development of good learning conditions, view each student as a unique individual, and provide for individual differences, abilities, and interests.

Faculty and Curriculum

• Emphasize and model excellence in teaching and learning.
• Distribute departmental communication in accordance with established guidelines.
• Ensure instruction is based in or defensible before the academic community, that personal views are so identified, and that it is compatible with the University’s Christian worldview, as reflected in the doctrinal statement.
• Seek to develop faculty that encourage independent thinking in students and critical discussion of differing points of view as they pertain to the issues of each course.
• Encourage excellence in students with appropriate course requirements.
• Provide appropriate evaluations of student progress through grading and consultation.
• Supervise, mentor, and provide support and direction for up to 30 online faculty members, acting as liaison between faculty and Online Chair.
• Analyze course and faculty performance in alignment with scope and mission of curriculum and student experience, informing the Online Chair of any concerns regarding course content.
• Provide portfolio evaluations of faculty during the fall or spring semester, with qualitative evaluations each semester which are used to provide guidance and mentoring of online faculty.
• Share concerns regarding online faculty performance with the Online Chair, mentoring faculty members when concerns arise.
• Review and use the Faculty Assessment Report to mentor online faculty and conduct ongoing assessment of their compliance with established course instruction guidelines.
• Assist online faculty with conflict resolution with students, as needed.
• Investigate student appeals and provide recommendation to Online Chair.
• Fulfill contracted teaching assignment by the end of the academic year.

Administrative and Financial Affairs

• Weekly e-mail and phone communication with online faculty, including reminders of administrative deadlines and directives, as well as providing guidance and encouragement.
• Assist with communicating new policies and procedures to online faculty.
• Be available to respond to questions from cohort within 24 hours.
• Attend Instructional Mentor meetings via conference call.
• Other duties as assigned.

Participate in University Service

• May periodically serve on one or more of the following types of University, College/School, or departmental committees: Faculty Senate, Faculty Senate Organizational Committees, Graduate Senate, Undergraduate Administrative and Curriculum Council, Graduate Administrative and Curriculum Council, school/department, and/or special committees.
• Attend special University events, including faculty orientation, baccalaureate and commencement exercises, team building exercises, etc.
• Periodically work on special projects and assignments, contributing to the overall report.

Spiritual Leadership

• Encourage a commitment to the Christian life, one of personal integrity, sensitivity to the needs of others, social responsibility, and active communication of the Christian faith, and, as it is lived out, a life that leads people to Jesus Christ as the Lord of the universe and their own personal Savior.
• Support and foster Liberty University’s doctrinal beliefs.
• Support and foster the spiritual development of faculty, staff, and students, ensuring that Christian values remain the focus of our mission and purpose at Liberty University.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education Qualifications: Candidates must hold a conferred terminal degree (Ed.D, Ph.D. or Th.D.) in one of the following areas:
  • Leadership
  • Christian Leadership
  • Ministry Leadership
  • Organizational Leadership
  • Christian Ministry
  • Ministry Studies
  • Spiritual Renewal
• Other Minimum Qualifications:
  • Teaching experience.
  • Understanding of technologies associated with online education.
  • Passion for faculty mentoring.
  • Commitment to the mission and purpose of Liberty University.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • History of outstanding teaching and student mentorship.
  • Administrative experience in higher education with assessment, course outcomes, and/or accreditation.

Requirements

• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing to convey clear, well-articulated information.
• Ability to understand, speak, and write English in order to convey messages and correspond in an articulate and professional manner.
• Possess public communication skills that allow professional representation of Liberty University to a variety of business and community customers and associates.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Excellent computer skills.
• Ability to contribute to a team environment and contribute expertise at appropriate times while recognizing each team member's strengths and contributions.
• Listen first communication style to ensure that everyone is heard so the best decision can be reached.
• Ability to show respect to their colleagues and to work in a collegial manner.
• Intuitively able to reason, analyze information and events, and apply judgment in order to solve problems of both a routine and complex nature.
• Occasionally required to travel to local and campus locations.
• Frequently required to sit for extended periods to perform deskwork or type on a keyboard.
• Regularly required to hear and speak in order to effectively communicate orally.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, and climb stairs to move about the building.
• Regularly lift 10 or fewer pounds.

Benefits

• Courses are typically paid at $800 per load hour.

Company Description

The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it is our moral and legal obligation to meet the responsibility of ensuring that all management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal and state statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes.

The University is a Christian religious-affiliated organization; and as such, is not subject to religious discrimination requirements. The University’s hiring practices and EEO discrimination practices are in full compliance with both federal and state law.