Part-Time Faculty - Emergency Medical Services

Part-Time Faculty

About the role

Columbia State Community College hires part-time faculty on a semester-to-semester basis to teach up to nine credit hours during the semester. Classes are offered at multiple campuses and locations.

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 inform 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.
• Meting 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

Skills

• Ability to maintain academic standards and classroom behavior.
• Ability to evaluate students and provide feedback.
• Ability to organize and supervise learning activities.
• Ability to respond to student questions via email.
• Ability to meet deadlines for administrative requests.

Benefits

• Salary is $560 per credit hour.
• Workload adjustments may be made for faculty teaching classes where the number of contact hours exceeds the number of credit hours.
• A travel stipend may be negotiated at time of hire for faculty traveling more than 80 miles each week to teach their classes.
• 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.

Pay

$560 per credit hour.

Schedule

Workload adjustments may be made for faculty teaching classes where the number of contact hours exceeds the number of credit hours.

Benefits

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