Part-Time Faculty - Emergency Medical Services

About the role

Part-time faculty are hired as needed on a semester‑to‑semester basis and typically teach up to nine credit hours during the semester. Columbia State offers classes at five campuses: Columbia Campus, Williamson Campus, Lawrenceburg Campus, Lewisburg Campus, and Clifton Campus, as well as several off‑campus locations and clinical sites.

Responsibilities

• Preparing for courses as assigned and adhering to departmental course syllabi and course minimum student learning outcomes.
• Beginning and ending all classes as scheduled.
• Organizing, assigning, and supervising learning activities of students in his/her classes.
• Maintaining academic standards and classroom behavior to ensure an environment conducive to learning.
• Evaluating students using a variety of methods and informing each student of scores received on each assessment in a timely manner.
• Maintaining accurate records of student attendance/participation and grades.
• Reading Columbia State email and responding to student questions via email in a timely manner.
• Meeting deadlines for all administrative requests such as submitting personnel paperwork, student enrollment.

Requirements

• Instructor Assistant
  • Currently licensed as a Tennessee EMT – Basic (or higher) without history of revocation, suspension, or denial of licensure.
  • Minimum one‑year pre‑hospital experience.
  • Minimum 75 hours EMS‑related teaching experience acceptable to the TN EMS Board and current BLS Instructor Certification.
• Instructor Coordinator
  • Associate degree.
  • Current TN EMT‑Paramedic license without history of revocation, suspension, or denial of licensure.
  • Two years’ experience practicing advanced life support in the pre‑hospital environment.
  • Minimum 300 hours EMS‑related teaching experience (or two years EMS education administration).
  • Current endorsement in an EMS Board approved trauma, cardiac, and pediatric course (instructor preferred).
  • Completion of EMS Board approved Instructors’ course.

Qualifications

• Teaching experience
• Higher education experience

Benefits

• Travel stipend may be negotiated at time of hire for faculty traveling more than 80 miles each week to teach their classes.

Pay

• Salary is $635 per credit hour.
• Workload adjustments will be made for faculty teaching classes where the number of contact hours exceeds the number of credit hours.
• For part‑time faculty who continue to work at Columbia State, salary is based on collegiate‑level teaching experience documented during the first semester of teaching.