Adjunct, Human Sexuality

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Prepares and teaches Human Sexuality course material as stipulated in the course syllabi provided by the department.
• With the assistance of a full-time faculty mentor, develops course calendar and weekly outlines.
• Supports professional commitment to the Department, School and College mission and values.
• Becomes familiar with, and abides by, all college policies with immediate priority given to those policies that govern interactions with colleagues, staff, administrators, and departments throughout the organization.
• Maintains professional etiquette in communications with students, staff, faculty, and administrators.
• Provides appropriate and timely feedback for all assignments.
• Returns graded assignments in a timely fashion per department standards.
• Maintains student attendance records (for Financial Aid purposes) and grades.
• Counsels students on course requirements and expectations.
• Conducts a variety of appropriate evaluations of student performance.
• Informs students of progress-to-date periodically and assigns and submits grades by published deadlines.
• Affords appropriate attention to student needs and concerns.
• Assists in maintaining a safe and mutually respectful instructional environment.
• Prepares and submits incident reports to Dean of Student Services for inappropriate student behavior as defined by the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities Policy.
• Maintains professional and collegial behavior.
• Handles/responds to student concerns/complaints, and responds to student communications and inquiries promptly (generally within 1-2 days).
• Maintains professional appearance as defined by the discipline and/or College procedure.
• Completes all required employee trainings.
• Knows and enforces FERPA guidelines.
• Provides ADA accommodations as requested.

Knowledge & Skills & Abilities

• Communicates effectively with a broad range of diverse people, culture, ethnic background, and abilities, to maintain good working relationships across the College.
• Works with all groups in a diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic background of community college students, faculty and staff, including those with disabilities.
• Maintains an on-site campus presence to encourage in-person relationships and create engaging, meaningful, and impactful learning experiences unless approved for on-line only courses.

Minimum Qualifications

• Current permanent resident of the State of Utah or plans to become a permanent resident of the State of Utah, if hired.
• Master’s Degree from an accredited college or university with at least 6 semester hours of graduate-level coursework in the topic of Human Sexuality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience teaching Human Sexuality courses in an institution of higher education.
• Availability to teach in-person courses.