Industrial & Systems Engineering Technology Instructor

Liberty University; Lynchburg (VA); On-site; USD 61,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia invites applications for a full-time Instructor to teach in their area of expertise and to support the university's mission and student experience. Instructors are contracted for 10–12 months with load determined by the Dean; a master’s degree in a relevant field and at least 18 graduate hours are required.

The University offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, and tuition assistance; salary ranges from $61,100 to

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field and at least 18 graduate hours in the teaching field.
• Instructors may be contracted for 10–12 months with load determined by the Dean.

Responsibilities

• Teach in your area of expertise and align delivery with the university's mission.
• Maintain integrity of course and instructional programs and support curriculum development.
• Engage in research/scholarship or creative activity as required by college/school expectations.

Education

Master’s degree in a relevant teaching field

Job description

Faculty are essential to Liberty University’s mission of TrainingChampions for Christ. It is expected that a faculty membermodel a personal commitment to the goals and values of LibertyUniversity, engage in an active commitment to, and experienceof, personal spiritual formation within a biblically informedChristian worldview. Faculty should view their teaching,engagement with students, and scholarship as a means to assignificant educational end. They should strive to employ avariety of techniques for the development of good learningconditions, view each student as a unique individual, and insofaras it is possible, provide for individual differences,abilities, and interests.

The Instructor’s primary role is to teach in their areas ofexpertise, maintain the integrity of course and instructionalprograms, and to ensure that their delivery is in alignment withthe University mission and vision for the student experience.As such, faculty are responsible for creating an academicatmosphere of mutual respect and consideration for individualdignity. Faculty members may be asked to aid in thedevelopment of curriculum in the residential and distanceeducation environments, as well as engage inresearch/scholarship or creative activity that varies dependingupon the expectations of their respective college or schooland any additional activities involving service to students andtheir professional discipline.

Faculty attain the rank of Instructor based upon scholarly andprofessional achievements. An earned master’s degree at anaccredited institution in an area relevant to the facultymember’s area of teaching; at least 18 hours of graduate credit inthe specific teaching field is required. This is the initial rankfor faculty in, but not having completed, doctoral programs, andthose with master’s degrees considered terminal and withoutteaching experience.

Instructors are contracted for 10, 11, or 12 months (30, 33, or 36load hours, respectively). Release from contracted teaching loadis determined each semester by the Dean, per Liberty UniversityFaculty Handbook.

Time Type

Full time

Location

Onsite

Pay Range

Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salaryrange. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidatemay vary and will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which mayinclude the successful candidate's rank, contract length, skills,work experience, internal equity, market conditions,education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined bythe University. The position may also be eligible for comprehensivebenefits , including health insurance, retirement plans, andtuition assistance.

$61,100.00 - $81,000.00

The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe itis our moral and legal obligation to meet the responsibility offensuring that all management practices regarding employees areconducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with TitleVII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal andstate statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promotingforall job classifications will be administered without regard torace, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy orchildbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicablestatus protected by law, including state of employment protectedclasses. It is, therefore, our policy and intention to evaluate allemployees and prospective employees strictly according to therequirements of the job. All personnel related activities such ascompensation, benefits, transfers, job classification, assignments,working conditions, educational assistance, terminations, layoffs,and return from layoffs, and all other terms, conditions andprivileges of employment will be administered without regard torace, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy orchildbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicablestatus protected by law, including all applicable state ofemployment protected classes. The University is a Christianreligious-affiliated organization; and as such, is not subject toreligious discrimination requirements. The University’s hiringpractices and EEO discrimination practices are in full compliancewith both federal and state law. Federal law creates an exceptionto the religion component of the employment discrimination lawsfor religious organizations (including educational institutions),and permits them to give employment practice preference to membersof their own religious beliefs.