Graduate IT Program – Information Technology, Cybersecurity and Data Science

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Complete training at Walden University focused on online teaching techniques, the electronic learning platform, institutional policies, degree programs, academic integrity, and research supervision.

• Engage in continuous professional development.

• Instruct assigned graduate courses via the Canvas platform.

• Maintain an active, welcoming, and academically demanding instructional presence.

• Clarify complex technical concepts using straightforward language, pertinent examples, demonstrations, and varied instructional methods.

• Facilitate meaningful discussions and assess comprehension.

• Relate course content to students’ professional aspirations and experiences.

• Offer timely, specific, actionable, and motivating feedback.

• Guide students towards solutions through coaching and inquiry.

• Participate in course discussions and meet specified response and engagement expectations.

• Clearly communicate availability and response expectations.

• Provide individual assistance beyond the course discussion board.

• Monitor student engagement and performance for indicators of difficulty.

• Conduct timely, constructive outreach and direct students to suitable support resources.

• Mentor doctoral students when assigned, including clarifying research milestones, offering scholarly feedback, assisting with academic and technical challenges, encouraging persistence, and promoting increasing independence.

⛳️ Requirements

• Doctorate in information technology, computer science, cybersecurity, data science, information systems, or a closely related discipline.

• Proven success in teaching, coaching, advising, or mentoring adult learners in an online or technology-enhanced setting.

• Capability to explain complex technical concepts to learners with diverse levels of experience and confidence.

• Three to five years of experience teaching graduate-level technology-related courses.

• Evidence of effective student engagement, prompt feedback, proactive outreach, and support for students facing academic challenges.

• Commitment to advocating for students’ learning and development needs in a distance-learning environment while upholding high academic standards.

• Experience mentoring doctoral students and providing clear, developmental, and constructive feedback on scholarly work.

• Technical proficiency in information technology or a related area.

• Ability to foster a welcoming, respectful, inclusive, and academically rigorous online learning environment.

• Skill in communicating complex concepts clearly and adapting explanations when initial understanding is lacking.

• Capacity to provide timely, substantial, and actionable feedback.

• Respectful, patient, and culturally responsive communication skills.

• Ability to utilize questions, examples, and scaffolded guidance to enhance student independence.

🏝️ Benefits

• Ongoing professional development opportunities related to adult learning, inclusive teaching, student engagement, developmental feedback, mentoring, and effective online instruction.

• Additional opportunities for contributing faculty members, including dissertation/doctoral study committee chair roles, research reviewing, and dissertation and doctoral study mentoring.

• Remote work arrangement.