Adjunct Instructor: Paralegal Studies Program

About the Role

Sullivan University is seeking an attorney to serve as a part-time adjunct instructor to teach online synchronous legal studies courses (via Microsoft Teams) to paralegal students in the associate, bachelor and post-baccalaureate programs. Adjunct faculty members are student-centered, teaching mentors who assist students to progress through their academic programs to completion.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate student learning, deliver effective and career-relevant instruction, provide an environment conducive to learning, evaluate student learning for all assigned classes, respond to student inquiries and grade all assignments in a timely manner within face-to-face, online, hybrid, and/or HyFlex learning environments
• Engage students using student engagement instructional techniques (collaborative learning, experiential learning, and/or problem-based learning)
• Deliver course curriculum utilizing the University's learning management system
• Participate in course and program level learning assessments, including helping define student learning outcomes, choosing and administering measures, evaluating student performance, suggesting changes to improve student learning, and as assigned, identifying updates and corrections to courses
• Work with the Dean, Department Chair, and/or Program Director in the development and revision of course maps and reviews/participates in the selection and revision of course materials, processes where appropriate
• Schedule, supervise, debrief, and evaluate students in clinical, externship, observation, field experience, and similar settings as appropriate for the course or program
• Participate in student retention, reaching out to students who have excessive absences, documenting student retention activities, and ensuring students are aware of University services that may be of value to their successful completion of their academic program
• Communicate availability (office hours) to all students via email, phone, or other personal contact
• Attend graduation (encouraged)
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate from an ABA-accredited law school
• Active bar license
• Prior experience working with paralegals required
• Prior experience teaching legal studies in synchronous format preferred
• An equivalent combination of education and work experience may be considered
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills
• Excellent leadership, customer service, communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and efficiently while meeting required deadlines
• Ability to function efficiently in a stressful work environment
• Must be able to hear and speak well enough to communicate with students, faculty, and staff face to face, via telephone, and through electronic medium (email, recordings, virtual meetings, etc.)
• Skilled in navigation and use of a learning management system, preferably Blackboard Ultra
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of programs

Pay & Schedule

• $1900 per course
• Classes may be during the day or evening