Associate Degree Nursing Instructor (part-time/adjunct) @ Northwood Tech New Richmond Campus

Northwood Technical College is seeking qualified candidates for a pool of part-time Associate Degree Nursing Instructors at the New Richmond Campus.

About the role

Instructors teach in a discipline area in which they have specific training and competence. Responsibilities include fostering learner success, assessing learner achievement, and continually improving learning opportunities. Instructors teach in various learning environments, including face-to-face, online, web-conferencing, and hybrid classrooms, and are expected to continually improve the quality and delivery of learning while supporting program and collegewide initiatives.

Northwood Tech’s values guide this work: Collaboration, Innovation, Excellence, Community, Support, Integrity, and Respect.

Responsibilities

• Develop and continually revise curriculum that includes Employability Essentials and technical content to meet industry and/or regulatory standards.
• Plan for instruction, including syllabi development, learning plans, and assessment strategies.
• Deliver, assess, and adapt effective instruction that meets the needs of all students.
• Apply a variety of instructional strategies, create learning plans, facilitate learning, and revise teaching practice.
• Promote a culture of continuing student success, implement strategies to promote learner persistence, demonstrate learner-centered communication, and utilize available student support services.
• Create performance-based assessment plans, employ a variety of formative and summative assessment strategies, communicate assessment results in a timely fashion, and use assessment results to improve instruction.
• Demonstrate professional behaviors to support teaching and learning and use varied strategies for managing the learning environment.
• Identify exit learning outcomes and external standards, develop competencies that describe intended learning outcomes, create performance-based plans and assessment tasks for each course, develop learning objectives and plans, prepare syllabi, and utilize a quality review process to validate curriculum.
• Use a variety of data analysis tools, analyze data from teaching and learning experiences, and use data to inform decision making about the teaching and learning process.
• Create and maintain an inclusive, effective learning environment that addresses barriers and provides reasonable accommodations.
• May be assigned to mentor high school teachers who offer Northwood Tech-articulated courses.
• Model the Employability Essentials expected of Northwood Tech students: communicate clearly, demonstrate professionalism, think critically, and consider varying perspectives.
• Designated as a Campus Security Authority (CSA) to receive and report criminal incidents to the Northwood Tech Safety Office (only applies to instructor positions with club advising duties).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• A graduate degree with a major in nursing; OR a baccalaureate degree in nursing and active enrollment with proof of progress in a master’s program with a major in nursing, a bachelor’s in nursing to doctorate program in nursing, or a doctorate program in nursing.
• Minimum of two years (4,000 hours) of occupational nursing experience.
• Direct care experience as a practicing nurse within the past five years.
• Current, active, unencumbered registered nurse license or privilege to practice in the State of Wisconsin and eligibility to obtain a registered nurse license in the State of Minnesota. Minnesota registered nurse license may be required (Superior campus).
• Ability to obtain a driver’s license and insurance coverage in accordance with College policy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Teaching experience in an associate degree nursing program.
• Certification as a Certified Nurse Educator (CNE).

Pay

• FY26 Salary - Adjunct Faculty (Non-FQAS Completion): $44/hour
• FY26 Salary - Adjunct Faculty (FQAS Completion): $49/hour