Department: Digital Technology
Position: Adjunct Faculty (In person)
This position has no official end date.
We invite you to apply at any time.
We review applications every semester to help us fill vacancies for our classes.
If we do not have an opening now, we will contact applicants as enrollment increases in this area.
Requirements for Employment Eligibility:
• Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Worthiness to hold and be worthy to hold a current temple recommend.
• Receive clearance from the Church Educational System Ecclesiastical Clearance Office.
• Commitment to bring about the purposes of Ensign College
• Resides in Utah
The Computer Science and Information Technology programs seek to hire part-time instructors (adjunct faculty) to teach various courses.
Ensign College has embraced immersive instruction techniques that place a very low emphasis on lecturing.
The successful candidate must view themselves as something other than a lecturer.
We are looking for industry professionals with the time and flexibility to work with our students and us.
They will have a solid commitment to high-quality undergraduate education.
Minimum Qualifications (for all candidates):
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field from a regionally accredited institution.
Expertise in the course content area.
Experience developing and implementing course content in corporate strategies.
Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, administrative, organizational, and writing skills.
Ability to apply field-related skills to developing and advancing course content and delivery.
Strong desire to help others succeed in their career goals.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree preferred.
Proven teaching ability at the college level and an understanding of collaborative learning and competency-based instruction.
Expertise in a variety of technical disciplines.
Job Functions:
Plan, prepare, and teach an approved course curriculum that includes measurable objectives for each course taught.
Guide and mentor students through rigorous experiential learning experiences.
Evaluate student learning using multiple means of assessment.
Maintain a typical teaching load of one to three-semester classes as needed.
Attend meetings/training as necessary.
We are looking for instructors who could teach one or more of the following specialization areas:
Software Engineering, Game Development, and Special Topics
PC hardware and Help Desk basics (A+ equivalence)
Windows Desktop and Server environments
Python Programming with Flask, Request and SQL
Linux
SQL Server and Database fundamentals
Networking fundamentals (OSI model, Subnetting, Network + equivalence)
Cybersecurity Specialties:
Security Auditing
Risk Analysis
Penetration Testing
Forensics
Encryption
Cloud and Server Specialties:
AWS / AZURE Cloud environments
JavaScript with React
Java with Spring Boot and Spring Data/JPA