Adjunct: Director, Center for Professional Development and Licensure
Status: Part time, 25-29 hours per week
The Director administers and directs the Center for Professional Development (CPD) & Licensure. The position is part time, contracted each semester up to 29 hours per week.
Qualifications:
- An academic, research, or experiential focus on professional development in the P-12 classroom.
- A teaching credential with a minimum of three years of P-16 teaching experience.
- Successful administrative experience, including budget development and control
- Proven entrepreneurial vision and leadership qualities
- Master’s degree in Education required; terminal degree in Education (preferred)
- Display a high degree of enthusiasm, self-pacing, and confidence to maintain PD and workshop sessions
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Initiate, coordinate, oversee, and implement professional development opportunities for P-12 teachers in collaboration with local school districts
- Develop PD opportunities that would include distance learning and off-campus delivery
- Provide oversight of PD instructors; adjunct acceptance, academic content, and syllabi rigor
- Coordinate with the Chair of education in planning Malone Education conferences
- Prepare and monitor the budget for CPD
- Represent School of Education at state licensure meetings
- Coordinate grant and research initiatives in studying and disseminating findings on professional development programs
- Coordinate with University Relations (UR) for the marketing of CPD workshops and p-12 PD sessions
About the Department:
The mission of the Teacher Education Program is to, in collaboration with liberal arts faculty and PK-12 educational partners, provide a biblically-based education which prepares knowledgeable, reflective, collaborative educators committed to serving others in order that all individuals may learn and develop to their fullest potential and interact with each other and their environment with respect, compassion, and fairness.
The motto of the Teacher Education Program is "Educators Serving Together," supported by our theme verse, I Corinthians 12:14, "For the body is not one member, but many." Educators must recognize that communities, including educational communities, are diverse and have unique values and needs.
Our purpose and goals are focused on preparing candidates committed to serving others collaboratively and who demonstrate through their knowledge, skills, and dispositions competencies which promote the growth of each learner.
How to Apply:
Malone University values diversity amongst its faculty and strongly encourages applications from women and underrepresented groups, as we cast a broad net to identify an individual with a mission aligned with our community.
Malone University values a diverse and inclusive workplace therefore, we seek an individual dedicated to excellence in education and competent in serving all individuals including individuals from diverse backgrounds. We strongly encourage applications from women and underrepresented minorities.
Application Materials Should Include:
- Adjunct Faculty Employment Application
- Letter of Interest
- Curriculum vitae
- Statement of Christian Belief and Practice in response to the following prompt:
- Malone University takes seriously the integration of the orthodox Christian faith and all academic disciplines and requires that faculty (full-time and adjunct) profess faith in Jesus Christ. Therefore, we ask that you provide a statement (250-500 words) in which you:
- Discuss your faith in relationship to the University’s Doctrinal Statement and Community Agreement.
- Describe your engagement with a local congregation or faith community. - Names and contact information of three references (two professional, one pastor or spiritual mentor)
- Transcripts will be requested if adjunct faculty employment is granted
Review of application materials will begin immediately. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.
SEND APPLICATION MATERIALS TO:
Jennifer Webb, Ph.D.
Education Department
Malone University
2600 Cleveland Ave NW
Canton OH 44709-3897
Email: jwebb@malone.edu
Malone University has an established policy of equal academic and employment opportunity. This policy is applied to all qualified students, employees and applicants for admission or employment, in all university programs and activities, without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, disability, or military or veteran status. Malone University is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women and minorities.