Job Description:

Category:: Professional

Department:: CLT

Locations:: Binghamton, NY

Posted:: Nov 23, 2021

Closes:: Open Until Filled

Type:: Full-time

Ref. No.:: 06702

Position ID:: 139710

About Binghamton University:

Binghamton University is a world-class institution that unites more than 130 broadly interdisciplinary educational programs with some of the most vibrant research in the nation. Our unique character - shaped by outstanding academics, facilities and community life - promotes extraordinary student success.

Binghamton merges rigorous academics, distinguished faculty and state-of-the-art facilities to engage and challenge its 18,000 students. The high-achieving Binghamton student body also represents a great diversity of life experiences, from first-generation college-goers to international students. Beyond their talent, these classmates share a desire to shape the future through technology, insight, intellectual exploration and community service.

Job Description:

Budget Title: Senior Staff Assistant (SL-3)

Salary: $55,000

The Center for Learning and Teaching at Binghamton University invites applicants for a one-year, full-time, potentially renewable position as Assistant Director of the Binghamton Codes! Program. The mission of the program is to broaden the skill sets for humanities and social science undergraduate students in the areas of coding, programming, and related skills to build their computational confidence. The Assistant Director will be the lead instructor of the introductory Python course in the two-course sequence, Coding in Action I, and assist the Director with outreach, course development, and scaling of the program to large enrollments. We are seeking a dynamic, innovative teacher with a commitment to high-quality, student-centered undergraduate education. The opening is immediate and the successful applicant will begin teaching this upcoming semester, Spring 2022.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with outreach and communications to stakeholders and future students


• Work with Director to develop potential new courses and course material for the program


• Help develop pilot tracks for the second course to be multiple course offerings


• Assist with recruitment of students to program


• Identify new avenues for promoting the courses


• Assist with website development to promote micro-credential


• Communicate with academic advising offices


• Teach the HARP 150-Coding in Action I course and supervise course assistants

Requirements:

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree


• Experience teaching Python programming to broad audiences


• Commitment to promoting diversity and anti-racism and working to advance a culture that strives to eliminate or mitigate the effects of systemic racism and bias


• Comfort with self-learning new methods, software, and applications


• Strong oral, written, and presentation skills


• A proven record of a dynamic, innovative teacher with a commitment to high-quality, student-centered undergraduate education

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with front-end web development


• Experience using social media platforms

Additional Information:

Offers of employment may be contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment background check and verification of degree(s) and credentials.

Binghamton University is a tobacco-free campus.

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor's Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov

Payroll information can be found on our website https://www.binghamton.edu/offices/human-resources/payroll/

Cover letters may be addressed "To the Search Committee."

Postings active on the website, accept applications until closure.

For information on the Dual Career Program, please visit:

https://www.binghamton.edu/offices/human-resources/prospective/dual-career/index.html

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

The State University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. It is the policy of Binghamton University to provide for and promote equal opportunity employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, religion, disability, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military service member status, marital status, domestic violence victim status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, or arrest and/or criminal conviction record unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification or other exception.

As required by Title IX and its implementing regulations Binghamton University does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the educational programs and activities which it operates. This requirement extends to employment and admission. Inquiries about sex discrimination may be directed to the University Title IX Coordinator or directly to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Contact information for the Title IX Coordinator and OCR, as well as the University's complete Non-Discrimination Notice may be found here.

Application Instructions:

Deadline for Internal Applicants: 12/08/2021

Deadline for External Applicants: Open until filled

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the vacancy is filled.

Persons interested in this position should apply online.

Please submit:

1. Resume,


2. Cover letter, and


3. Contact information for three professional references

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