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The Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) is searching for an **_Adjunct Instructor_** in City Data Practices for its What Works Cities (WWC) Program, a new integrating training and coaching to maximize the data management and use capacity of city leadership by building skills and evaluating impact at scale. GovEx seeks a part-time Instructor with subject matter expertise in data governance, data strategy, data sharing, data inventories, data quality, and/or qualitative data to develop and deliver high-quality instruction in online formats as designed to meet the needs of adult learners in the public sector. The desired candidate will have extensive background in city government and knowledge in data use and practice that can be drawn upon to create and deliver relevant content.

The Adjunct Instructor will assist in the development and delivery of online and technology-facilitated courses. The instructional technologist will provide primary instructional technology support for online course and eLearning creation and related resource development including audio and video components, web assets, and training materials for faculty, staff, and students.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

_Online Course Design & Development_

+ Develop online course sites (includes the placement of text, files, images and digital media) within the learning management system, in collaboration with the course-assigned instructional designer (ID) and according to approved course design standards.

+ Collaborate with IDs to ensure all course components adhere to course design standards; tasks include reviewing and editing course documents, reviewing and editing recorded lectures, verifying all external course links and other tasks.

+ Assist multimedia specialists with the preparation and production of recorded audio/video lectures.

+ Manage the copying and readiness of all online course shells for each academic term.

+ Ensure all online courses are ready to launch on the first day of each new academic term, meeting course structure guidelines and reporting any discrepancies.

+ Provide ongoing assistance to instructional designers and instructors in the building/deployment of online courses; troubleshoot online course functionality such as discussion boards, surveys, quizzes, exams, course multimedia, and the integration of external computer applications and systems.

_Faculty Development_

+ Develop and administer training sessions and online resources for faculty in the areas of best practices for use of learning technologies, online learning, and multi-media instruction.

+ Facilitate and conduct on-site and remote training to faculty and staff.

_Educational Technologies_

+ Maintain the EP online orientation course for new online students. Monitor student progress, provide student support as necessary, maintain appropriate records, update semester specific materials, and provide reports as necessary.

+ Develop training materials for Blackboard, Zoom, and other related instructional technology applications used by EP to support technology-mediated instruction.

+ Serve as EP’s Blackboard administrator. Responsibilities include verifying all online courses are properly flagged in the system of record, copying course content from previous semesters, keeping up to date on all Blackboard system upgrades/changes including building blocks and plugins, and perform other related duties as needed.

+ Draft, update and coordinate distribution of semester email notifications for new and returning online students.

+ Provide faculty and student help desk support by responding in a timely manner to requests for assistance in using various instructional technologies.

+ Coordinate the implementation of new technologies for online course development and provide training for all users.

+ Advocate use of pedagogical strategies and educational technologies to faculty and staff.

+ Troubleshoot, investigate, and create detailed bug reports.

+ Perform other related duties as requested.

_Schedule_

+ Courses are usually taught on Tuesdays from 12pm to 1:30pm EST, and last for 8 weeks at a time. Additional office hours are scheduled as need by cities in 30-minute time blocks on Thursdays from 12pm-2pm EST. Outside of class, adjunct instructors will need to work with the GovEx Academy team to develop course materials and engage in grading assignments and discussion board posts on Canvas. Roughly 4-8 hours of work estimated per week.

Minimum Qualifications

+ Bachelor's Degree in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, Education, or related field.

+ Two years of progressively responsible experience in course design and development, faculty training, or program/course assessment/evaluation required.

+ Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

+ City government experience in data practices.

+ Experience with data governance frameworks, city data strategy, data sharing, data inventories, data quality and/or qualitative data practices.

+ Experience with online teaching.

+ Experience working with adult learners.

+ Prior teaching experience.

+ City government experience in data practices

+ Experience teaching adult learners.

Classified Title: Instructional Technologist

Job Posting Title (Working Title): Adjunct Instructor

Role/Level/Range: ACRO37.5/03/CG

Starting Salary Range: $26.00 - $45.50 HRLY (Commensurate w/exp.)

Employee group: Casual / On Call

Schedule: Monday- Friday 9am-5:30pm

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Department name: Ctrs for Govt Excellence & Public Innova

Personnel area: Academic and Business Centers

The listed salary range represents the minimum and maximum Johns Hopkins University offers for this position, based on a good faith estimate at the time of posting. Actual compensation will vary depending on factors such as location, skills, experience, market conditions, education, and internal equity. Not all candidates will qualify for the highest salary in the range.

Johns Hopkins provides a comprehensive benefits package supporting health, career, and retirement. Learn more: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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