Job Purpose
Reporting to the Director, Quality Assuarance, the office holder will coordinate activities related to faculty development with the purpose of enhancing the teaching effectiveness. This entails identifying faculty development needs, planning and conducting faculty trainings, and assessing the impact of the trainings.
Duties and Responsibilities
Liaise with the school administrators to identify faculty development needs.
Liaise with the school administrators to plan faculty trainings.
Plan and conduct new faculty orientation and educational effectiveness workshops.
Working very closely with USIU-Africa Online, support individual faculty in applying appropriate teaching/learning principles.
Identify and recommend external training programs in pedagogy and andragogy for faculty.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the trainings conducted.
Track and report on improvement in teaching and learning resulting from faculty development workshops.
Establish a pool of internal and external facilitators for the identified regular faculty development workshops.
Support the planning for the annual quality assurance symposia and the hosting of pedagogical conferences by the university.
Maintain up-to-date faculty training records.
Design training materials and tools such as manuals, handbooks, training curricula and guidelines.
Engage with curriculum implementation through the teaching of one or two courses per academic year (depending on the workload of the core job function).
Prepare and submit to the Quality Assurance Director semester reports detailing faculty skill gaps and the training effected to fill those gaps.
Perform other duties as assigned by the Director, Quality Assurance.
Minimum Qualifications
PhD in Education with specialization in Pedagogy, Curriculum and Instruction or a related area.
Minimum five years’ instruction or training experience at university level.
Knowledge of pedagogy and andragogy principles, instructional design, training methodologies, learning management systems and competency assessment.
Competencies
Planning and coordination skills.
Verbal and written communication skills.
Research skills.
Problem solving skills.
Judgment and decision making skills.
Presentation skills.
Facilitation skills.
Technologically savvy.
Coaching and mentoring skills.
Interpersonal skills.
If you have the requisite qualifications and experience and desire to work as a team member in a modern, progressive, international, and multicultural institution where you can make a difference, please apply indicating in the subject line of the email address the position you are applying for.Interested applicants must provide a cover letter and a current CV, certified copies of educational certificates and transcripts, names and addresses of three referees, current salary and benefits, telephone and e-mail contacts by 5.00pm, August 11, 2023 to:Director Administration,
United States International University – Africa,
P. O. Box 14634-00800, Nairobi, Kenya
Email: jobs@usiu.ac.ke
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jobs@usiu.ac.ke
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