Human Resources - Adjunct Instructor - National Louis University
Chicago, IL 60603
About the Job
National Louis University’s Undergraduate College is seeking Human Resources Adjunct Instructors to join our team.
Who we are:
We are a team of dedicated educators who have been working together to build an amazing program that supports first-generation students with a focus on the holistic student. We work fearlessly to educate and retain our students. As a result, we have exceeded national benchmarks through our approach to holistic coaching and data driven, personalized instruction. Our educational model is student-focused, expects excellence, provides personalized support in a data-driven environment, while grounded by pillars of continuous improvement and innovation to structure our work.
About NLU:
National Louis University (NLU) is looking to honor its past while defining a bold new future as a contemporary, comprehensive university that prepares diverse students for sustained professional success with a deep commitment to Access, Excellence, Innovation and Equity. We are a pioneering community that uses innovation to improve outcomes. NLU questions the status quo and strives to adapt and evolve with the changing needs of its students. We are a community that cares about each other and our students and we work collaboratively, tirelessly and quickly to advance change in the service of students. We have a long venerable history, but we are not typical. We seek to solve intractable social issues through education; we believe we have not succeeded until graduates achieve sustainable career related employment; and we foster a culture that promotes failing fast so that we may constantly improve our work.
Founded in 1886, National Louis University is a private not-for-profit university offering over 70 programs from short-term certificate through the doctoral level across its five colleges. The University serves over 10,000 students per year and has experienced unprecedented growth over the last several years. Most students are from Illinois, but the University also attracts students from throughout the U.S. and from around the world who take advantage of campus based, blended and online programming.
NLU is located in the center of Chicago’s downtown loop, across the street from the Art Institute, in an area which has been recognized as America’s largest campus with over 25 institutions and 50,000 students attending a college across the city. In addition, the University has two suburban locations and a Florida regional campus.
Essential Responsibilities:
Demonstrate excellence in teaching:
- Collaborate with faculty team to develop an effective student experience for students.
- Facilitate courses by delivering engaging instruction in a blended or remote, synchronous classroom environment.
- Empower students to develop competency by sharing a passion for the subject and skills being taught.
- Utilize technology-based teaching platforms, including but not limited to an adaptive courseware engine to aid students in the development of competencies. Communicate professionally and relate well.
Demonstrate, maintain, and continuously strengthen content expertise:
- Maintain current and active content knowledge in the expertise area that is reflected in instruction.
- Possess appropriate expertise as demonstrated by appropriate credentials. Maintain current knowledge of field.
Promote student success with a proactive, high expectations, high support approach:
- Demonstrate and share a passion for postsecondary success for diverse learners and for teaching.
- Demonstrate flexibility in delivery and work schedule to provide personalized student support (includes but is not limited to office hours).
- Identify gaps between student needs and existing resources and services; generate creative resolutions.
- On-campus presence on days when not teaching.
Engage in data-driven instruction and student support planning:
- Track student course data weekly in multiple university data systems as needed. Engage in regular data-driven planning meetings with faculty, coaches and support specialists to report student progress and obstacles and to plan student support interventions.
- Engage in regular content area team meetings with peer faculty to review curriculum plans, determine implications of student data, and plan curriculum revisions.
- Participate in continuous improvement of UGC curriculum.
- Actively document and share suggestions for curriculum revision with lead faculty to support ongoing revision/enhancement of UGC curriculum.
Commit to continuous improvement of self and colleagues (i.e., professional development):
- Create, attend and actively participate in training opportunities provided in online and in-person settings.
- Contribute to a learning culture by participating on committees, supporting local campus events such as orientation and graduation, and participating in various other workshops and meetings.
- Passionate about working with a highly diverse student body. Excellent facilitation and classroom management skills.
- Agile and creative in pedagogy and student support. Prepared, yet flexible.
- Empathetic, yet structured.
- Ability to differentiate instruction and support based on student needs.
- Ability to consistently connect instruction to its real-world relevance, tying in concepts and theories in the classroom to students’ current and future work experiences and highlighting immediate applicability.
- Willing to pursue and support students in multiple modalities.
- Technology proficient, including experience with digital tools for teaching, and teaching in either online or blended/hybrid formats.
- Willing and able to use data to inform instruction.
- Effective adult collaboration skills, able to work in teams to support student success.
- Experience using a learning management system. Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experienced educators who EXPECT and DESIRE to grow pedagogically.
Experience and/or Education
- Master’s degree or higher in Human Resources, or closely related field; Or Master’s degree; and 18 graduate semester hours in Human Resources, or closely related field.
- Experience with digital tools for teaching, teaching in either online or blended/hybrid formats
- Teaching to students of diverse backgrounds and abilities strongly preferred.
- Spanish-English bilingual or experience teaching English Language Learners a plus
