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If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Develop instructional materials, aligned with identified learning objectives, course competencies, and instructional interventions, to support both student self-service use and use in virtual one-to-many events. * Provide effective, relevant, and engaging one-to-many virtual events aligned with identified learning objectives. * Continually develop knowledge, skills, and expertise through active participation in faculty learning community and other developmental opportunities. * Provide proactive, relevant, timely, and effective one-to-one virtual instruction to students in a specific course or domain. * Facilitate student communities to support peer collaboration, effective faculty interaction, and student development. * Be student-centered and provide effective one-to-one virtual coaching to help students achieve personal, academic, and career goals. * Adapt instructional and coaching practices to common and typical student needs. * Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities: * Subject-matter expertise in the assigned content and skills of the course(s)/domain(s) * Strong knowledge of how student characteristics interact with different learning needs common to the course(s)/domain(s) * Strong communication skills with the ability to moderate online student communities to encourage engagement and learning. * Ability to use information from student profiles, learning behaviors, and interactions to identify individual student needs. * Demonstrates respect for and value of diverse perspectives and experiences. * Ability to adapt standard resources, templates, and instructional plans for the needs of individual students or groups of students. * Ability to apply adult learning principles and instructional skills to build student competency in a virtual one-to-one setting. * Provide encouragement for student self-reflection and metacognition to improve competency in learning objectives. * Flexibility to adjust instructional approach depending on individual student needs and preference. * Skilled at using data to identify students in need of proactive support, with the ability to select appropriate tone and content for proactive outreach. * Ability to adapt the timing, modality, and frequency of outreach/contact to individual student needs and preferences. * Strong active listening skills and emotional intelligence with the ability to build relationships with adult students. * Solid understanding of coaching strategies to support personal, academic, and professional development in adult students. * Willingness to engage in regular self-reflection and re-evaluation of beliefs, perspectives, and approaches to improve equity. * Proficient in developing presentation materials that align to... For full info follow application link.

Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.