Specific Responsibilities
- Collaborate with instructional designers to customize the lab course so that students may leverage your experience, expertise, and professional connections.
- Provide meaningful and timely feedback, as well as grades, on assignments for up to 8 students, with a turnaround of fewer than 5 days.
- Lead weekly online synchronous and asynchronous interactions with students.
- Identify student needs and provide timely solutions in collaboration with course assistants and program staff.
- Hold weekly virtual office hours to discuss students’ projects and answer questions.
- Consult with students individually through email, telephone, or video conference with a typical turnaround of 1 day.
- Manage, monitor, and advise a team of course assistants to ensure timely and high-quality grading, feedback, and student interactions.
Qualifications
- A holistic view of the health care ecosystem, with experience leading or participating in health care innovation initiatives.
- The ability to guide students through gathering background research for their projects, including (but not limited to) conducting online and library research.
- A collaborative approach, and a willingness to expand students’ professional opportunities by connecting your network with the MHCI community.
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
- Experience as an instructor or student in courses with an online component is preferred.
- A graduate degree in a related field and prior teaching experience are strongly preferred.
Work for the instructor position will be carried out remotely. This includes up to 20 hours between March and May, and 15 hours per week during the 4-week lab and the 2 weeks following. The position pays a stipend of $6,000 and does not include benefits. If you are interested, please use Workday to submit 1) your résumé/CV and 2) a cover letter briefly describing a great experience you have had—at work, in school, or elsewhere—working with a team: what 1 or 2 factors were most responsible for making it great, and how can you pass that on to students as they work in groups?
Applications are due by Friday, February 7.
Job Location – City, StatePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Department / SchoolPerelman School of Medicine
Pay Range$7.25 – $68.18 Hourly Rate
Salary offers are made based on the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education as they directly relate to the requirements of the position, as well as internal and market factors and grade profile.
Affirmative Action Statement
Penn adheres to a policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.
Special Requirements
Background check may be required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.