Online Adjunct Faculty - School of Communication and the Arts, Animation

About the role

Adjuncts are essential to Liberty University’s mission of Training Champions for Christ. They are expected to model a personal commitment to the goals and values of Liberty University, engage in an active commitment to, and experience of, personal spiritual formation within a biblically informed Christian worldview. Adjuncts should view their teaching, engagement with students, and scholarship as a means to a significant educational end. They should strive to employ a variety of techniques for the development of good learning conditions, view each student as a unique individual, and insofar as it is possible, provide for individual differences, abilities, and interests.

Responsibilities

• Teaching undergraduate and/or graduate students within the online Graphic Design curriculum.
• Managing and supporting developed lectures, discussions, and course assignments with current industry standard practices.
• Providing regular and timely feedback to students to improve their design thinking and execution as well as to supervisors to promote student success.
• Evaluate student work and provide detailed critiques submitting grades in a timely manner.
• Stay current with design industry trends, software, and technologies.

Requirements

• A minimum of a Master’s Degree in Art, Graphic Design, or Communication Design, and demonstrated experience in the concentration.
• A terminal degree preferred in the Arts, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree, Mdes, or PhD in animation or a related visual arts field.
• A plus would be professional achievements in animation or digital media equivalent to an MFA degree.
• Experience teaching animation courses online is preferred.
• Familiarity with current industry-standard 2D animation software such as Toon Boom Harmony and Adobe Animate, as well as 3D animation tools like Blender, Maya, ZBrush, and 3DS Max.
• Experience in game design, including the use of game engines like Unity or Unreal Engine, would be valuable but not required.
• Understanding character set-up techniques including rigging and dynamics would be a plus.
• Experience with cutting-edge design technologies such as AI, generative design, and motion graphics.

Qualifications

• Ability to teach various levels of animation at the undergraduate online program.
• Broad understanding of the role of animation in contemporary culture, art, and commerce.
• Thorough knowledge of the modeling and animation pipeline and workflow.

Skills

• Proficiency in current industry-standard 2D animation software such as Toon Boom Harmony and Adobe Animate.
• Experience with 3D animation tools like Blender, Maya, ZBrush, and 3DS Max.
• Experience in game design, including the use of game engines like Unity or Unreal Engine.
• Understanding character set-up techniques including rigging and dynamics.
• Experience with cutting-edge design technologies such as AI, generative design, and motion graphics.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Courses are typically paid at $800 per load hour.

Schedule

Part time.

Location

Remote Location.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it is our moral and legal obligation to meet the responsibility of ensuring that all management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal and state statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes. It is, therefore, our policy and intention to evaluate all employees and prospective employees strictly according to the requirements of the job. All personnel related activities such as compensation, benefits, transfers, job classification, assignments, working conditions, educational assistance, terminations, layoffs, and return from layoffs, and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including all applicable state of employment protected classes.