Job Description

As Walden grows, we continue its tradition of quality. Walden's School of Nursing seeks nursing faculty for MSN programs (MSN core courses, Nursing Education, Nurse Executive, and Nursing Informatics) within the Competency Based Education (CBE) curriculum with part-time commitments. Share your professional experience and academic knowledge with students across the country and around the world. With a computer and a high-speed Internet connection, you can teach on your own schedule while maintaining other professional and personal commitments.

Tempo Learning faculty subject matter experts (faculty SMEs (Subject Matter Expert) are student-facing faculty roles. Faculty SMEs are faculty members assigned to one or more competencies based on their subject matter expertise. The core responsibility of faculty SMEs is to serve as the central academic content support for Tempo Learning students.

Faculty subject matter expert primary responsibilities, key metrics, and suggested practices in Walden’s competency-based education:

• Work directly with students to assist with any questions or challenges they may have in acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills needed to demonstrate proficiency in each competency.
• Initiate regular and substantive academic engagement with each student as they work through each competency for which the SME has responsibility. Additionally, the faculty SME is required to document the substance of all students' academic engagement in the student's record.
• Hold weekly office hours as well as conduct synchronous webinars.
• Pose and promptly respond to student questions through frequent discussion board sessions on the learning platform and to individual student emails on academic content.
• Use detailed rubrics to validate the student assessment as demonstrating competency.
• Use corrective feedback sparingly, emphasizing positive feedback that encourages good work and invites learners to revise excellence.
• Leverage available learning and behavioral analytics to track student engagement weekly and identify students who need more immediate intervention.
• Assure curriculum quality. Faculty SME’s play a crucial role in the development, review, and ongoing improvement of the CBE curriculum.
• Establish regular and structured contact with students; initiate contact with students, even when they do not expect it, with a message of caring and attentiveness to the individual.
• Develop sensitivity to cultural differences that influence communication and understanding.
• Exercise patience and tolerance and assume good intent on the part of learners.
• Develop a repertoire of online discussion catalysts in your subject area to stimulate and drive engagement.
• Encourage students to take risks, to explore, and to learn from their mistakes, thereby facilitating their self-empowerment.
• Create an atmosphere of mutual respect while engaging students in the learning endeavors.
• Monitor all students’ work for academic integrity.
• Regularly review competency content and recommend updates to resource links or other materials as necessary.
• What to expect as a Walden faculty member:
  
  Faculty members educate Walden University students by effectively and proficiently using online technology and resources so that knowledge, information, feedback, and critique are imparted to and shared with students in thoughtful, carefully formulated, written, and timely communications. This is accomplished in an environment that respects students, the Faculty Member, Walden University, and the discipline in which the Faculty Member is involved. Faculty Members are expected to adhere to all Walden University Faculty expectations, which are clearly set forth to the Faculty Member at the start of his/her employment with the University.
  
  Course Teaching/Availability:
  
  Faculty Members are assigned to specific competency modules—individual modules taught using the Tempo Learning platform—as faculty subject matter experts (SME). Faculty SMEs are responsible for collaborating with Academic Coaches and other faculty colleagues and interacting with students within the context of specific assigned CBE module. Discussion Boards and a variety of online, self-directed activities within the virtual classrooms are open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Although work assignments and competency assessment work products may be done at any time of day, they must be completed promptly in accordance with the Faculty Handbook or other criteria established by Walden University. As such, Faculty Members in the CBE curriculum is expected to be flexible and prepared to respond to student inquiries within 48 hours and return assessments with feedback within 72 hours. In addition, CBE Faculty SME’s will publish their availability to students in the Tempo Learning platform. The university suggests regular and predictable availability, such as online office hours or regular online chats.
  
  Technology Requirements:
  
  Faculty members are required to have an adequate computer to handle an electronic learning platform, keyboard, pointing device, and computer monitor. All other tools are knowledge-based or training-based through Walden University. The Faculty Member must be able to use Microsoft Office products (Word/Excel/PowerPoint), zip software, and Adobe Acrobat and must have reliable Internet access as well as alternate access in cases where primary access becomes unavailable.
  
  Licensing/Certification:
  
  Faculty Members must be appropriately credentialed, possess an earned degree from an accredited institution or recognized by a country's ministry of education in the discipline being taught, and may be expected to be licensed or license-eligible to teach in specific programs. Faculty Members must maintain their licenses and any appropriate certifications to continue teaching at Walden University. Faculty Members are also expected to maintain currency with research by reviewing articles, journals, and presentations. If participating in research, the Faculty Member may publish and acknowledge Walden University.

Qualifications

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

The successful candidate will:

• Earned master's in nursing (MSN) AND earned a Doctorate (preferably in Nursing) from an accredited institution, with demonstrated coursework in one of the three specializations: nursing education, nursing informatics or nurse executive.
• Candidates should have a record of professional scholarly contributions to nursing, preferably in one of the three specializations (nursing education, nurse Executive, nursing Informatics).
• A minimum of two years' experience teaching graduate courses in one of the three specialty areas (nursing education, nurse executive, and nursing informatics) or related content.
• Commitment to advocating for the learning and development needs of students earning their degrees in a distance learning environment.
• Experience with distance learning preferred.
• Evidence of current RN licensure in one of the 50 states in the US required.
• Excellent communication, team, and human-relations skills.
• Certification in area of specialty is preferred (Nurse Education, Nursing Informatics, or Nurse Executive).

Additional Information

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected compensation rate for this position is as follows:

• Graduate Course Instruction: $1,560 - $4,080 per Quarter or Semester, depending on type of course taught and length of course
• Undergraduate Course Instruction: $700 - $2,200 per quarter, depending on type of course taught and length of course
  
  Actual pay may be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as type of course taught; experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Walden also offers other opportunities for its contributing faculty members, such as dissertation/doctoral study committee chair positions, research reviewing, and dissertation and doctoral study mentoring.
  
  Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

Equal Opportunity – Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation