Faculty (Rank TBD) - Optometry - 998770

About the role

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) was founded in 1964, and is a not-for-profit, independent university with a reputation for academic excellence and innovation. NSU offers competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package including tuition waiver, retirement plan, excellent medical and dental plans, and much more. NSU cares about the health and welfare of its students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors and is a tobacco-free university.

Responsibilities

• Provides high quality instruction in field of expertise, ensuring students meet course outcomes.
• Plans, evaluates, and revises curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
• Selects and obtains materials and supplies, including textbooks and laboratory equipment.
• Prepares course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
• Identifies specialized materials for outside reading assignments.
• Initiates, facilitates, and moderates classroom discussions.
• Supervises laboratory sessions.
• Provides students course-related experiences outside the classroom if applicable.
• Assists students who need extra help with their coursework outside of class.
• Maintains student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
• Evaluates and grades students' class work, laboratory and clinic work, assignments, and/or papers.
• Compiles, administers, and grades examinations, or assigns this work to others.
• Maintains regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
• Advises students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.
• Acts as advisor to student organizations, ensuring adherence to college and university policies and procedures.
• Provides clinical instruction to optometry students and residents to be competent optometric professionals.
• Affords assessments of clinical education needs and patient care needs using a variety of methods.
• Coordinates continuation of patient care within NSU Health and with area eye care and healthcare clinics, hospitals, and facilities.
• Maintains a clinical practice license and assumes patient care responsibilities while ensuring adherence to HIPAA, compliance, and standards of practice guidelines and policies.
• Conducts research and/or scholarly activity in a particular field of knowledge and publishes findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
• Writes and/or participates in grant proposals to procure external research funding.
• Reviews papers for publication in journals.
• Supervises undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work if applicable.
• Participates in campus and community events, such as giving presentations to the public.
• Actively identifies opportunities and provides service relating to fields of expertise and the profession for the benefit of internal and external communities.
• Participates in college committees, task force activities, and events.
• Collaborates with staff and colleagues to address teaching and research issues, and to improve students' learning experiences.
• Serves on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.
• Serves on student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.
• Mentors junior and adjunct faculty members.
• Keeps abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
• Completes special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Comprehensive knowledge of the information and skills needed to diagnose, manage, and treat ocular injuries, eye diseases, and the visual system.
• General knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
• Thorough knowledge of English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Customer and Personal Service - General knowledge of principles and methods for providing customer and personal services.
• Speaking - Advanced skills in talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Instructing - Proficient skills in teaching others how to do something.
• Reading Comprehension - Proficient understanding of written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
• Writing - Proficient skills in communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Learning Strategies - Proficient skills in selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
• Active Listening - Proficient skills in giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Active Learning - Proficient skills in understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Complex Problem Solving - Proficient skills in identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Science - Proficient skills using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
• Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Speech recognition - must be able to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Speech clarity - must be able to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Near vision - must be able to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Travel - must be able to travel on a daily and/or overnight basis. May be required to work nights or weekends.
• May be exposed to short, intermittent, and/or prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing in performance of job duties.
• May be required to accomplish job duties using various types of equipment/supplies, to include but not limited to pens, pencils, and computer keyboards.

Qualifications

• Required Education: Doctoral Degree (For Professor ranks) or M.S./M.A. (For Instructor rank)
• Required Experience: Professional doctoral-level teaching experience or have residency training or equivalent.
• Preferred Qualifications: None specified.

Benefits

NSU offers a comprehensive benefits package including tuition waiver, retirement plan, excellent medical and dental plans, and much more.

Pay

Pay is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Schedule

The schedule is typically full-time, with occasional evening and weekend work required.

Skills

Skills required include comprehensive knowledge of the information and skills needed to diagnose, manage, and treat ocular injuries, eye diseases, and the visual system; general knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects; thorough knowledge of English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar; customer and personal service - general knowledge of principles and methods for providing customer and personal services; speaking - advanced skills in talking to others to convey information effectively; instructing - proficient skills in teaching others how to do something; reading comprehension - proficient understanding of written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents; writing - proficient skills in communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience; learning strategies - proficient skills in selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things; active listening - proficient skills in giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times; active learning - proficient skills in understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making; complex problem solving - proficient skills in identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions; science - proficient skills using scientific rules and methods to solve problems; deductive reasoning - the ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense; inductive reasoning - the ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events); problem sensitivity - the ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem; speech recognition - must be able to identify and understand the speech of another person; speech clarity - must be able to speak clearly so others can understand you; near vision - must be able to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer); travel - must be able to travel on a daily and/or overnight basis. May be required to work nights or weekends; may be exposed to short, intermittent, and/or prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing in performance of job duties; may be required to accomplish job duties using various types of equipment/supplies, to include but not limited to pens, pencils, and computer keyboards.

Benefits

NSU offers a comprehensive benefits package including tuition waiver, retirement plan, excellent medical and dental plans, and much more.