Professor Databases - North York, Canada - Seneca Polytechnic
Description
Join the Renewed Seneca, The Next Seneca
:
Guided by _The Next - A Strategic Plan for Seneca Polytechnic_, we offer a working environment that is innovative, flexible and encourages risk-taking.
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Chair of the School of Information Technology Administration and Security, the Professor is responsible for developing, preparing, and delivering post-secondary courses.
Seneca offers courses in four delivery formats:
in-person, online, hybrid and flexible. Professors may teach in any one or more of the four delivery formats.
The Professor will be responsible for providing academic leadership in the classroom and within the School, ensuring an effective and compelling learning environment for students.
Program Area/Level:
Responsible for teaching at the Graduate Certificate and Degree program level including but not limited to various database courses.
Responsibilities:
Under the direction of the senior academic officer of Seneca or designate, the Professor is responsible for:
Teaching:
- Ensuring student awareness of course objectives, approach and evaluation techniques.
- Incorporating active learning strategies in online, hybrid, flexible, and inperson classes.
- Implementing appropriate educational technology and tools in online, hybrid, flexible, and inperson classes.
- Carrying out regularly scheduled instruction, which may include tutoring and academic counselling of students.
- Providing a learning environment which makes effective use of available resources, work experience and field trips.
- Evaluating student progress/achievement and assuming responsibility for the overall assessment of the student's work within assigned courses.
Course and Curriculum Development:
- Ensuring an equitable and accessible learning community on online, hybrid, flexible, and inperson classes.
- Designing formative and summative assessments (alternative and authentic) for online, hybrid, flexible, and inperson classes.
- Consulting with program and course directors and other faculty members, advisory committees, accrediting agencies, potential employers and students.
- Defining course objectives, and evaluating and validating these objectives.
- Specifying or approving learning approaches, necessary resources, etc.
- Developing individualized instruction and multimedia presentations where applicable.
- Selecting or approving textbooks and learning materials.
Academic Leadership:
- Providing guidance to Instructors relative to the Instructors' teaching assignments.
- Participating in the work of curriculum and other consultative committees as requested.
- Participating in industry, or communitypartnered, Applied Research initiatives to enhance student learning with interdisciplinary and experiential learning opportunities.
Qualifications:
Education
- A minimum completed PHD in Information Technology or related field with a specialization in Databases. If education is in a related field, please state how it is relevant.
- A cloud certification in databases is preferred (i.e., Azure, AWS, GCS)
Experience
- Minimum two (2) years of industry experience with databases, data analytics or Machine Learning. Work experience must be current and obtained within the last 5 years.
- Prefer teaching experience at the postsecondary level.
Skills
- Demonstrated competencies to deliver inperson, online and hybrid teaching.
- A track record of teaching excellence at the College or University level, and/or delivery of professional training and development.
- Demonstrated leadership skills and teamwork skills.
- Familiarity with curriculum development, student engagement and other postsecondary practices, including Universal Design for Learning.
- Demonstrated commitment to the principles of indigenization, diversity, inclusion, integrity, and excellence.
- Excellent presentation, communication, and human relation skills to interact effectively with Seneca's multicultural student and staff population. Demonstrates a deep understanding of and unwavering dedication to promoting equity in education.
Note:
A teaching demonstration will be required during the recruitment process.
Consideration will be given to qualified internal full-time academic and partial-load employees first in accordance with the Collective Agreement requirements.
Job Details
External Posting Date:
External Closing Date:
Open until filled
Pay Range:
Dependent on experience
Hours:
44.0
Work Type:
On-site
Shift:
Monday to Friday, 8:00am - 7:00pm
Ideal Start Date:
1/2/24
End Date:
Job Type:
Full-time, Permanent
Note:
Seneca requires cop
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