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Role Description

Full-time faculty members are first and foremost teachers and play a key role within a school as course leads. They are united by the common goal of inspiring academic excellence in students with a broad range of interests and experiences. They are key to creating a rewarding online learning experience for students by engaging them, challenging them, and supporting them. They provide the resources for a quality learning experience for students by ensuring coherence in the discipline, rigor in the content, and relevance and currency to the practice. Full-time faculty members/course leads contribute to a range of activities that support student learning outcomes, program quality, and discipline integrity, all of which focus on student learning and retention.

This individual will be responsible for coordination of Esports related activities and initiatives:

• Develop new courses and maintain course quality for all courses in the Esports academic degree.
• Serve as coordinator and sponsor of the Esports Club.
• Establish Esports competitive teams for the institution.
• Organize and manage Esports related co-curricular events.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Sports Psychology, Sports Management, Sports Business Management, Business Administration, Sports Leadership, or a closely related field from a regionally accredited institution is required.
• A doctoral degree is preferred.
• Experience in a leadership role as course coordinator or program director is preferred.
• Experience with program accreditation is preferred.
• Five or more years of college-level teaching experience is required.
• Online teaching experience is preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite programs is required.

Requirements

• Responsible for course curriculum quality to include:
• Teaching excellence.
• Deliver online lessons to undergraduate and/or graduate students.
• Initiate, facilitate, interact and moderate online classroom forums.
• Be a faculty leader in your classes embracing fully the Community of Inquiry Framework of Teaching Presence, Cognitive Presence, and Social Presence.
• Comply with APUS guidelines and expectations for quality faculty engagement online.
• Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers within the timeframe set forth by APUS policy providing effective feedback to guide student learning and success.
• Engage in the classroom and reply to emails, etc. at least every other day, including one day during the weekend.
• Remain aware of classroom procedures and use of instructional materials.
• Participate in professional development to enhance teaching skills.
• Annually complete at least two APUS Faculty Development modules for effective online learning and teaching.
• Work with Department Chair and collaborate with faculty to ensure discipline, program and course continuity, currency, and relevance.
• Define course objectives, review regularly, and revise as needed.
• Update course content and materials and/or delivery methods, based on information such as emerging practice changes in the discipline, instructional effectiveness data, current or future performance requirements, feasibility, and costs.
• Analyze courses and prepare analysis for program and course reviews, and course and homework contact hours.
• Remain aware of new classroom procedures, APUS requirements, and instructional materials.
• Attend regular meetings with Director of Programs to stay aware of how their courses fit within the overall program progression and other APUS requirements.
• Ensure APUS instructional standards and policies are reflected in course design.
• Ensure model courses are developed and maintained according to applicable APUS, accreditation, certification, or other requirements.
• Contribute to advancing the discipline as a leader:
• Keep abreast of developments in one’s own field by reading current literature, engaging with colleagues, and participating in professional organizations, conferences and discipline-related professional communities.
• Participate in professional development activities.
• Administrative responsibilities:
• Attend school and discipline meetings (monthly or quarterly) on curriculum, content, development of discipline and practice, and APUS expectations.
• Convene meetings with faculty teaching your courses to ensure they are aware of the curriculum intent.
• Provide guidance to instructors to clarify lessons, assignments, and course design elements.

Benefits

• Full-time faculty are salaried employees.
• Information regarding our faculty benefits may be found here .

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• Remote/Online.
• Sitting, extensive use of keyboard.

Please note: Full-time faculty members and directors are to consider APUS their primary employer. Full-time salaried faculty and directors may not be full-time employees of any university, school, college, or institution of higher education outside of APUS; this includes administrative, staff, and teaching positions.

Please note: Applicants selected to proceed in the hiring process with conferred degrees from foreign institution(s) will require a course-by-course evaluation completed by a National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) approved agency. All charges associated with official transcripts and foreign transcript evaluations are the responsibility of the applicant and are not reimbursed by APUS.