Colorado State University

Description of Work Unit

Founded in 1870, Colorado State University is among the nation’s leading research universities and enrolls approximately 32,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Located an hour north of the Denver metro area, Fort Collins is a vibrant community of approximately 157,000 residents that offers the convenience of a small town with all the amenities of a large city. Fort Collins is situated on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains with views of 14,000 foot peaks, and offers access to numerous cultural, recreational, and outdoor opportunities.

The College of Business at Colorado State University is an AACSB-accredited business school that enrolls more than 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students in on-campus and online programs annually. We are a top-ranked business school whose Online MBA program is #1 in Colorado and #10 in the nation, with a worldwide alumni base of 34,000 and growing. Our 8 centers of excellence connect students with industry experts, offering opportunities to expand their networks and engage in experiential learning.

We are a purpose-driven community consistently seeking to achieve our mission of transforming lives and improving the world around us through business education, scholarly research and community engagement. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all areas of the College of Business Community. Our vision is to build a nationally recognized College that provides access to an exceptional business education to all those who want to learn, excels in research that advances our understanding of the world and leverages the power of business to make our world a better place.

The College enrolls more than 1,400 students across four different MBA platforms designed for a diverse student audience: MBA with specialization in Marketing Data Analytics, Impact MBA, Evening MBA and the Online MBA. These programs are offered in residence and via Colorado State University’s accredited online learning programs.

Join our College community in Fort Collins, Colorado, to see how you can use business to create a better world. 

Position Summary

Instructional Coordinators (ICs) bring professional-level industry experience in the specific content areas of the MBA programs. This experience adds value and reinforces academic content to the students enrolled in the College’s online graduate programs.

The College of Business online MBA programs follow a lecture-capture, distributed learning model. Under this framework, the role of the Instructional Coordinator is to work closely with lead faculty instructors to facilitate, extend, amplify, and mediate course instruction with online students. By reinforcing and clarifying content, Instructional Coordinators ensure that each student keeps pace with the course as it progresses. ICs collaborate with the lead faculty before the course begins by discussing course content, learning objectives, student participation, assignments, and grading metrics. This collaboration and communication between the faculty and the ICs is ongoing from 2-3 weeks before courses begin until the debrief session after the course ends.

Instructional Coordinator’s allow the College of Business to extend the classroom experience to a large, diverse online audience. Serving along with lead faculty, Instructional Coordinators clarify and reinforce course content and extend theory to practice. ICs oversee approximately 35-70 online students as needed based on class size and grading intensity/technology. They are the primary point of communication, grade assignments, hold virtual “office” hours, and recommend grades to the lead faculty. For our online students, this is a significant role, as it connects them to the program during a time when they might otherwise feel disconnected. ICs provide a valuable high-touch level of customer service to the student while allowing the lead faculty to focus on developing and delivering quality content to students.

Instructional Coordinators provide a high level of student outreach and have the availability to frequently connect with students, academic advisors and team leads. They must be engaging, offering an increased and innovative presence in the online classroom to best serve the student and facilitate student success. Instructional Coordinators are expected to provide substantial and specific student feedback and offer a quick turnaround on grades. Instructional Coordinators reflect department and institutional values, and they are expected to foster the college’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States by proposed start date. The College of Business will not sponsor a visa for these positions 

Required Job Qualifications

• MBA, MSBA degree or equivalent from a school of business accredited by the AACSB—(The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International)
• OR earned Master’s, JD degree,
• OR PhD. or PhD. candidate in a relevant field of study, or DBA or equivalent
• Five years of full-time professional experience with a demonstrated progression in responsibility and authority, or equivalent teaching experience in required topic area.
• Excellent written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct and self-motivate
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience delivering supplemental teaching/coaching to students in order to promote mastery of course content and to provide specific feedback to foster understanding of content.
• Willingness and ability to work weekends, early morning hours, and evening hours*
• Applicants must have technical and academic current skills/experience in one or more of the following content areas to serve in the MBA program as an Instructional Coordinator:
• Accounting, Marketing, Leadership, International Business, Finance, Economics, Legal and Ethical Business Environment, Strategy, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and Statistics.
• Applicants must have the technology required to work online, the ability to load necessary software required to serve the students, or have access to this technology.

Preferred Job Qualifications

• 2+ Years’ experience in the online learning environment.
• 2+ Years’ experience using a Learning Management System (LMS) such as Canvas (Instructure), Blackboard, Moodle, etc.
• Demonstrated experience in AdWords, WordPress, SEO, or other marketing data analytical tools.

EEO

Colorado State University (CSU) provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.