ADJUNCT-Conflict Analysis and Resolution Department

Primary Purpose

The Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS) of Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is seeking adjunct faculty to teach graduate and doctoral-level courses for NSU.

Essential Job Functions

• Teach assigned courses professionally and in accordance with university, college, and program requirements.
• Prepare and submit course syllabi by established deadlines.
• Maintain regular and professional communication with students and the program supervisor.
• Respond to student and supervisor communications within 48 hours.
• Provide students with timely and substantive feedback on assignments, assessments, and academic progress.
• Submit grades, progress reports, attendance information, and other required documentation accurately and by established deadlines.
• Maintain appropriate course and student records and provide them to the program supervisor when requested.

Requirements

• Doctoral Degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Peace and Conflict Studies, Peacebuilding, or a closely related field from a regionally accredited institution or its international equivalent.
• Demonstrated expertise appropriate for teaching graduate and doctoral-level courses in conflict analysis and resolution.
• Ability to connect theory, research, and practice in the classroom and to mentor doctoral students.
• Strong written, oral, interpersonal, organizational, and instructional technology skills.
• Ability to work effectively with students from diverse academic, cultural, and professional backgrounds.
• Demonstrated ability to teach effectively in an online learning environment and to use learning management systems, videoconferencing platforms, email, and other instructional technologies required for course delivery.
• Adjunct faculty may also be asked to serve as members of dissertation committees when their expertise aligns with a student's research.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior graduate teaching and online teaching experience.
• Practitioner experience preferred for practice courses, ethics, public policy, and practicum courses.
• Research-methods expertise required for quantitative, qualitative, research design, or dissertation-related courses.
• Prior experience teaching graduate or doctoral-level courses.
• Prior experience teaching in an online or blended-learning environment.
• Professional practice experience in mediation, negotiation, facilitation, conflict intervention, peacebuilding, public policy, organizational conflict, community conflict, ethics, or another area relevant to the assigned course.
• Experience mentoring doctoral students or serving on dissertation committees.
• Evidence of scholarship, applied research, or professional service in conflict analysis and resolution or a related field.