JOB
Summary
The Coordinator of Teaching Excellence and Professional Learning supports the College's mission by coordinating professional learning initiatives that strengthen effective teaching, employee development, faculty onboarding and engagement, and student success. This position is responsible for developing, delivering, coordinating, and assessing professional development opportunities for faculty and staff; coordinating the college-wide components of full-time and part-time faculty orientation; serving as a central resource and mentor for part-time faculty; leading communities of practice; and coordinating major professional development events.
The Coordinator works collaboratively with Instruction, Continuing Education, e-Learning, and Human Resources to provide accessible, relevant, and high-quality professional learning opportunities aligned with institutional goals, employee needs, and best practices in teaching and learning.
This position is primarily on campus and requires in-person availability for orientation, workshops, convocation, and meetings. Occasional flexibility for remote work may be available, subject to departmental needs and approval. Please note that the College does not sponsor employment-based visas. EXAMPLE OF DUTIES
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
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Coordinates, develops, delivers, and continuously improves the college-wide components of orientation for new full-time and part-timefaculty.
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Collaborates with the Vice Presidents of Instruction and Continuing Education, academic leadership, Human Resources, e-Learning, and other stakeholders to support consistent faculty onboarding.
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Develops and maintains faculty orientation resources, guides, and onboarding materials.
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Teach a minimum of 3 contact/membership hours of instruction per academic year.
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Serves as a central professional learning resource and mentor for part-time faculty.
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Provides regular communication, support sessions, office hours, and resource sharing for part-time faculty.
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Coordinates professional development programming for faculty and staff.
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Develops and maintains an annual professional development calendar aligned with institutional priorities, employee needs, strategic planning, and assessment results.
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Coordinates the College's fall convocation.
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Leads and supports communities of practice focused on topics connected to teaching excellence.
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Develops and maintains professional development resources.
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Tracks participation, evaluates professional development activities, analyzes feedback, and prepares recommendations related to professional learning effectiveness.
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Promotes peer-to-peer learning, cross-divisional collaboration, innovation, reflection, and the sharing of effective practices across the college
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Maintains professional development webpages, calendars, communication materials, resource repositories, and planning documents asassigned.
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Participates in relevant committees, advisory groups, workgroups, and professional organizations related to teaching, learning, professional development, employee engagement, and student success.
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Stays current with trends and best practices in community college teaching and learning,faculty development, adult learning, and employeedevelopment.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position does not have direct supervisory responsibilities. The position may lead cross-functional workgroups, coordinate presenters and facilitators, provide guidance to faculty and staff participants, and oversee event volunteers, student workers, or temporary support as needed. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Language Skills-
Ability to communicate effectively in written, verbal, online, and presentation formats with faculty,staff, administrators, external presenters, vendors, and otherstakeholders.
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Ability to develop clear agendas, guides, reports, training materials, communications, evaluationsummaries, and professional developmentresources.
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Ability to facilitate workshops, group discussions, learning communities, presentations, and meetings in a professional and inclusive manner.
Mathematical Skills-
Ability to compile, interpret, summarize, and present professional development participation data, survey results, and evaluationfeedback.
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Ability to apply basic quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify needs, evaluate effectiveness, and recommend improvements.
Reasoning Ability
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Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to assess needs, identify priorities, evaluate options, and recommend practicalsolutions.
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Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, events, and stakeholder expectations in a fast-paced, collaborativeenvironment.
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Ability to exercise sound judgment, maintain confidentiality, and refer personnel, performance, credentialing, or discipline-specific concerns to the appropriate supervisor or office.
Computer Skills-
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, presentation tools, web conferencing platforms, electronic calendars, and communicationtools.
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Experience using learning management systems, survey tools, online training tools, and technology used to create, deliver, track, and evaluate professional development.
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Ability to create and maintain online resources, calendars, registration forms, recorded sessions,guides, templates, and resource repositories.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: None required.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, and talk or hear.
The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and lift or move materials related to events and training sessions. Specific vision abilities include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The position requires occasional early morning, evening, or limited weekend work for orientation, convocation, workshops, or special events.
The position requires frequent interaction with faculty, staff, administrators, external presenters, vendors, and community partners, as well as coordination across departments and campus locations.
