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Faculty Development Officer Job
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Job Title: Faculty Development Officer
Hiring Organization: United States International University
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Education
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 08/04/2023
United States International University-Africa is a Higher Learning Institution based in Nairobi, Kenya and is the most diverse university in East and Central Africa with about 6,000 students from over 60 nations, and a global network of more than 25,000 alumni. USIU-Africa is the only university in Sub-Saharan Africa whose degree programs are accredited by both the Kenya Government through the Commission for University Education (CUE), and by the American Government through the WASC Senior Colleges and Universities Commission (WSCUC).
In line with our commitment to providing quality, affordable education through world-class service delivery platforms, USIU-Africa is seeking to recruit suitable candidates for the position below:
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
• 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.
• Search skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Judgment and decision making skills.
• Presentation skills.
• Facilitation skills.
• Technologically savvy.
• Coaching and mentoring skills.
• Interpersonal skills.