Associate Faculty - DNP Project Chair - Part Time Faculty (Virtual)

University of Phoenix; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 30,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

The University of Phoenix is seeking an Associate Faculty - DNP Project Chair to instruct and mentor DNP students. This part-time position requires a doctorate in nursing and experience teaching at the graduate level. The role involves providing guidance on clinical projects and fostering student success through flexible engagement methods.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Nursing required, with 1-3 years teaching at graduate level.
• Must have experience guiding DNP students on practice change projects.

Responsibilities

• Instruct courses engaging students to promote academic rigor.
• Guide DNP students on evidence-based practice projects.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Decision-Making

Technology Proficiency

Education

Doctorate in Nursing (DNP, DNS, PhD)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Classroom Learning System Technology

Job description

Associate Faculty - DNP Project Chair - Part Time Faculty (Virtual)

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About The Position

An Associate Faculty primarily instructs undergraduate and/or graduate courses in specific disciplines in accordance with University of Phoenix learning objectives and course outlines, engaging with students to drive academic rigor and student success. In addition to classroom instruction, an individual performs a variety of classroom-related and other activities, which are established by university leadership and/or dictated by specific course requirements, to ensure every student has the opportunity to learn, progress, and achieve academic success.

About The Position

An Associate Faculty primarily instructs undergraduate and/or graduate courses in specific disciplines in accordance with University of Phoenix learning objectives and course outlines, engaging with students to drive academic rigor and student success. In addition to classroom instruction, an individual performs a variety of classroom-related and other activities, which are established by university leadership and/or dictated by specific course requirements, to ensure every student has the opportunity to learn, progress, and achieve academic success.

The College of Nursing has been helping nurses advance their skills and their careers for over four decades. Our focus has always been providing a quality education to working nurses through programs that are affordable, flexible, and aligned with industry needs and standards. We serve the educational needs of registered nurses in programs from undergraduate to doctoral level. Our students can benefit from your experience and leadership as they learn competency, consistency, compassion in practice, and the highest standards of ethical conduct.

• Note ** Candidates for this position will have the required academic credentials and will have at least 1-3 years of teaching at the graduate and/or professional level. This will include teaching related content with current and relevant practice experience.
  
  

Successful candidates understand this role is supporting DNP students as a project chair and agrees to be available to the student throughout the program.

• As a faculty member you’ll be challenged with adding your professional expertise to instruct a curriculum which is centrally developed with specific learning objectives.
• Serve as a faculty teaching within the program curricula for online; effectively use a mentor/coach approach to build productive educational relationships with students.
• Apply flexibility and creativity in meeting student needs, ensuring availability to students, responding to student issues and concerns, as needed, inside and outside of the classroom, based on the learning environment and according to University policy and instructional standards.
• Maintain a flexible work schedule, including nights and weekends, to support student development and progression; hold open office hours to accommodate student development and progression.
• Utilize classroom learning system technology (provided by university), the Internet, and Microsoft Office software.
  
  

The project chair is responsible for providing guidance and direction to students in a DNP program in the development of an evidence-based practice change or quality improvement project that is clinically relevant and clinically focused. Has the ability to meet with students every 2-3 weeks, understands the importance of helping students with writing (may include some level of editing of written work), is collaborative, and is willing to work with the faculty and students in project courses as the project is being developed.

Will review and approve practice hours in the system utilized by the program to document practice hours.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Doctorate in Nursing (DNP, DNS, PhD) requiring the successful completion of a dissertation or culminating project
• Must have 6 graduate semester credits in Research Methodology and/or Evidence-Based Practice and/or Quality Improvement or equivalent
• Must have professional experience in a leadership or management position AND 3 years of experience in doctoral level nursing practice
  

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Degree must be from a regionally accredited institution
• Must have an active unencumbered or unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of residence or practice OR a multistate RN license
• Must have 1-3 years of direct work with DNP students (preceptor or mentor experience would qualify) helping students define an evidence-based practice change or quality improvement project.
• Experience in doctoral level practice in healthcare includes administration, clinical, informatics, and consulting, subsequent to doctoral degree attainment.
• CURRENCY: Faculty must have doctoral level nursing practice experience, OR, doctoral level project leadership experience, OR, have completed a doctoral level project through an earned Doctor of Nursing degree in the last 10 years
• SCHOLARSHIP REQUIREMENT:
• All faculty members must have one record of scholarship annually, within a rolling one-year timeframe, that meets UOPX’s definition of scholarship engagement. Faculty who do not initially meet this requirement may still be qualified, however, they have one year from the date the content area is approved and/or the requirement effective date, to come into compliance with this Nursing Scholarship requirement to maintain content area approval.
• College of Nursing requires all faculty with approved courses within the College to maintain Annual Scholarship
  

Additional Qualifications

• Familiarity with adult education teaching and learning theory
• High level of problem solving and decision-making ability to assess student work, address issues and concerns, and provide appropriate guidance
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with diverse constituencies, including students, other faculty, staff, and external parties
• Technology proficiency, including Microsoft suite programs
• Able to convey a professional image and represent the University appropriately within the community and with external parties
  
  

University of Phoenix is an Equal Opportunity Employer

If you are an active-duty military member seeking employment when off-duty, compliance with Department of Defense Joint Ethics Regulation, 5500-7-R, is required prior to starting employment with University of Phoenix. You are advised to contact your base Judge Advocate General to seek such approval and answer any questions.

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