Part-Time Faculty - Emergency Medical Services

Title: PartTime Faculty Emergency Medical Services

Employee Classification: PartTime Faculty

Institution:Columbia State Community College

Campus Location: Columbia State Community College

Job Summary

Part time faculty are hired as needed on a semestertosemester 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. Columbia State also offers classes at several offcampus locations and clinical sites.

Minimum Qualifications

Instructor Assistant Currently licensed as a Tennessee EMT Basic (or higher) without history of revocation suspension or denial of licensure. Minimum oneyear prehospital 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 EMTParamedic license without history of revocation suspension or denial of licensure. Two years experience practicing advanced life support in the prehospital 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.

Preferred Qualifications

Teaching Experience
Higher Education Experience

Special Instruction to Applicants:

You must submit a transcript and a resume/CV to be considered for a PartTime Faculty position. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable for the application process. Official transcripts will be required upon hire. Applicants may be subject to a background check. Please note the closing date for pool postings. If you are still interested you must reapply each calendar year.

Salary is $560 per credit hour. Workload adjustments will be made for faculty teaching classes where the number of contact hours exceeds the number of credit hours. Additionally a travel stipend may be negotiated at time of hire for faculty traveling more than 80 miles each week to teach their classes. For parttime faculty who continue to work at Columbia State salary is based on collegiate level teaching experience documented during the first semester of teaching.

PartTime Faculty Duties and Responsibilities

The parttime faculty member reports directly to the dean for assignments/duties and is responsible for:

• Preparing for courses as assigned and adhering to departmental course syllabi and course minimum student learning outcomes.
• Beginning and ending all classes as schedules.
• 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 for informing each student of scores received on each assessment in a timely manner.
• Maintaining accurate records of student attendance/participating 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