Welding Instructor

About the Role

Instructors are responsible for delivering educational materials using sound educational practices focused on the successful academic development of each student. They utilize the educational experience to develop the knowledge and skills of students in their chosen field, helping them achieve their educational and career goals. Instructors foster an engaging, dynamic, and student-centered environment, providing support, tutoring, and other assistance as needed. They lead by example, modeling professional behavior centered on ethical conduct aligned with Ancora Education’s Mission and Core Values.

Responsibilities

• Utilize classroom and lab instruction, student assessment mechanisms, and classroom management techniques to provide an engaged educational experience.
• Ensure students are presented with the material required to successfully meet the learning objectives of each course in their program of study.
• Maintain instructional materials and equipment, ensuring they are ready for student use, sufficient in quantity, properly maintained, and in working order.
• Participate in ongoing faculty assessment and professional development activities to ensure an active, up-to-date classroom experience; maintain required certification and licensure.
• Actively participate in meetings, review and analyze assessment data, compile reports, and meet academic and administrative deadlines.
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and regulatory bodies’ guidelines, along with internal company policies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Where required, must have an active certification or licensure.
• Five years of industry experience within the last 10 years.
• Prior to teaching, instructors must have documented prior teaching experience or complete new instructor training.
• Ability to qualify as an instructor per institutional and accreditation standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience teaching in a proprietary education setting.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and accreditation regulations applicable to the proprietary education industry.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described are representative of those required to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

• Occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to handle objects or tools, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

• Usually not exposed to weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is typically moderate.