Job Details

Position Type: Per Diem

Position Title:

Part-time instructors/Subject Matter Experts (SMEs): Multiple Disciplines

Reports To:

Technical Institute for Environmental Professions

FLSA Status:

Non Exempt

Functional Area:

Academics

Position Identifier:

TIEP

Unit:

Instructional

Location Identifier:

On-Premises

Geographic Location:

NG - New Gloucester

About Unity College:

For more than fifty years, Unity College has been preparing the next generation of environmental professionals and leaders to successfully face real-world challenges. Unity College offers affordable and accessible degrees, certificates, and non-degree courses, through a variety of modalities including hybrid, in-person, hyflex, and online."

Our Mission:

Through the framework of sustainability science, Unity College provides a liberal arts education that emphasizes the environment and natural resources. Through experiential and collaborative learning, our graduates emerge as responsible citizens, environmental stewards, and visionary leaders.

The Institute:

The Technical Institute for Environmental Professions, located on the Pineland Farms campus of Unity College in New Gloucester, Maine delivers a highly flexible (HyFlex) education leveraging our new campus. The institute is designed to provide an accessible and affordable option to upskill, retrain, or start a brand-new career. Our programs provide preparation for high demand industries from aquaculture, to data analytics, to veterinary technology, and more. Our programs are built on the principles of competency-based education allowing learners to attain certificate and Associate degrees.

The Position:

The Technical Institute for Environmental Professions at Unity College is seeking qualified, innovative, and enthusiastic individuals to teach, or provide subject matter expertise, in the following areas: . Instructors are required to teach in person at the New Gloucester campus whereas subject matter experts can be remote.

Licensed Professions

• Veterinary Technology
• Wastewater Technology

Workforce Courses

• Data Analytics
• GIS
• Information Technology
• Urban Agriculture
• Renewable Energy
• Aquaculture

General Education

• Foundational Sciences: Physics, Chemistry, Biology
• Algebra and Statistics
• Communications
• Research and Writing

The courses are offered in a HyFlex modality where some learners will attend the class face-to-face while others will remote into the class in addition to online learning. Class sessions will be recorded and made available to learners for review and reference. Each term is two weeks, courses will be scheduled on either Tuesdays and Thursday or Wednesdays and Fridays for an hour and a half a day.

The Hyflex portion of the instruction will take place on campus in New Gloucester, Maine on the Pineland Farms campus.

Qualifications:

• For licensed professions, a current, valid license is required and a minimum of an Associates degree
• For workforce courses, the minimum required is an Associate degree with three years of relevant experience; a bachelors degree is preferred
• For general education courses, a masters degree is required.
• For instructors only: Previous teaching/training experience is highly desirable

Required:

• Must be comfortable with navigating technology
• Must have the ability to comfortably use Zoom, Microsoft Office, Internet (technology support is available)
• Must have strong organizational and time management skills

• Ability to communicate effectively and appropriately, particularly in front of a camera and a classroom/audience
• Personal commitment to the environmental focus and mission of the college
• A commitment to learner success

The Location & Times:

The Technical Institute for Environmental Professions is located in New Gloucester, Maine, on the Pineland Farms campus. Classes are offered in the morning, afternoon, and evening.

Benefits:

These are temporary, part-time positions and are not eligible for benefits.

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and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our students, and our community.
Unity College is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.