Job Description
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Arts Program in Organization Development & Leadership
Location: Remote
Reports to: Program Director
Position: Adjunct Faculty (multiple positions available)
Applications will not be considered complete unless both a resume and cover letter are uploaded.
SUMMARY
Fielding Graduate University delivers graduate education that fosters individual development, community collaboration, and societal engagement. We envision our alumni producing scholarship and engaging in practice that informs and creates a more humane, just, and sustainable world.
The university has a long history and distinguished reputation of providing impactful Organization Development (OD) graduate education. In 2021, we celebrate 25 years of offering our OD master’s program—with approximately 800 alumni across the globe.
We have recently redesigned our MA in Organization Development & Leadership program to meet the contemporary needs of individuals seeking to engage in OD practice and consultation in various organizational contexts. We aim to build a strong faculty for the program. To that end, we are currently accepting applications for adjunct faculty teaching positions.
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY
Fielding Graduate University is committed to social justice and diversity, and encourages individuals from historically underrepresented groups to apply. Applicants who can contribute to diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity in higher education through their teaching, research, and mentorship are strongly encouraged to apply.
Preferred and Required Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS
We seek candidates who have at least 2 years of experience teaching or providing teaching assistance in online or hybrid environments. Ideal candidates will have notable experience with respect to online graduate programs and/or online undergraduate programs designed for adult learners. Candidates with relevant and notable work experience will receive the strongest hiring consideration. A master’s degree is required and doctorate degree preferred in at least one domain and/or foundational areas noted below.
We are particularly interested in candidates with a graduate degree, coupled with demonstrated practice and/or scholarship in one or more of the following domains:
- Organizational Behavior
- Organizational Culture
- Organizational Change
- Organizational Design
- Organizational Consulting
We are also interested in candidates with graduate degrees and certifications, coupled with demonstrated practice in the following foundations:
- Leadership
- Organization Development
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Group Communication
- Organizational Communication
- Data Science and Data Analytics
- Industrial and Organizational Psychology
TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS
Candidates hired will be part of an adjunct faculty pool and offered opportunities to teach, according to their respective expertise and availability and program instructional needs. The program is comprised of six (6) modules. Modules are 7 weeks in duration, within a 14-week term structure. Faculty serving as lead faculty for each module will provide instruction for 7 weeks. Faculty serving as foundation faculty for each module will provide instruction for 5 weeks. All program faculty will deliver both synchronous and asynchronous instruction.
Initial faculty onboarding and program orientation are in May and June 2021, with the first teaching assignments for the program starting in July 2021—followed by September 2021, November 2021, January 2022, March 2022 and May 2022.
Application Details
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Applicants should submit a strong cover letter to accompany their resume/CV. Cover letters should make explicit how the applicant meets the position qualifications, making particular reference to their domain and foundational qualifications and expertise as noted below.
Fielding Graduate University utilizes ADP Workforce Now for online applications. The system will prompt you to create a user name and password to initiate the application process. The system deems an application complete once the applicant uploads a resume and cover letter. Applicants are encouraged to have their employment history, educational information, and professional references on hand while completing the application. The online application process takes approximately 30 minutes. Upon completion, applicants will receive a confirmation of receipt via email.
Application link: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=371bf4c2-8681-458c-8b35-722b1fc8d540&ccId=19000101_000001&type=MP&lang=en_US
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Fielding Graduate University is an innovative global community dedicated to educating scholars, leaders, and practitioners in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world. We do this by providing exemplary interdisciplinary programs within a distributed and relational learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Fielding was founded in March of 1974 by Frederic Hudson, Hallock Hoffman, and Renata Tesch. The founders envisioned a nationally recognized graduate school based on two notions:
- Changing demographics were altering the world of higher education: greater numbers of mid-career adults seeking advanced degrees to enhance already established academic and professional skills.
- Adults learn differently than adolescents and young adults: The traditional pedagogical method of education–active teacher, passive learner–would not be appropriate.
Fielding developed a rigorous, supportive learning model that is flexible, adult-centered, self-directed, practice-oriented, global, and competence-based.
The university offers graduate education in the fields of Psychology, Education, Leadership Studies, and Professional Coaching. Fielding is accredited by WASC, and its Clinical Psychology program is accredited by the American Psychological Association. The university has a deep commitment to examining and eliminating structural inequality in society.
Fielding Graduate University has a strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) from our earliest beginnings in the early 1970s. With the founding focus of providing doctoral education to mid-career adults, we offered graduate experiences specifically designed for people who had been left out of traditional education. Since that time, diversity, equity and inclusion remain an active process that requires continuous commitment to promote collaborative learning and change through attracting, retaining, graduating and honoring a more diverse population of students, faculty, staff, alumni and community friends. Social and ecological justice is part of our explicit commitment to understanding, analyzing and acting to reduce inequality, oppression and social stratification, recognizing the linkages between economic, social and ecological justice. The university strives to ensure that DEI are embodied in all academic programs including course content, faculty, staff and student performance, assessment and accountability. We challenge our community to think boldly and take specific actions that are realistic and measurable.
Fielding is also an active business leader in the local community of Santa Barbara, California, the location of the university’s main campus and administrative offices. In this role and in keeping with the university’s core values, Fielding actively supports several charitable organizations within the Santa Barbara community, such as the LGBTQ+ Pacific Pride Foundation, The Association for Women in Communications, The Fund for Santa Barbara, UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures, Child Abuse Listening Mediation (CALM), and the Environmental Defense Center.
In partnership with Pacific Pride Foundation, Fielding hosted a special Pride event brining into the Santa Barbara community, Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage in the United States. Following the success of this event, Fielding hosted another civil rights event in the local community with Dolores Huerta, an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association (later became the United Farm Workers). As the world, battled the global pandemic, Fielding hosted a free virtual symposium this summer with an international list of leading psychologists, media professionals, and other panelists to discuss the effects of COVID-19 on the world population.
Values
Academic Excellence: We commit to the highest quality scholarship, research, and practice.
Community: We support a collaborative learning environment built on inclusion and mutual respect.
Diversity: We commit to having a faculty, staff, and student body that is diverse and inclusive. We embrace and celebrate the wisdom, knowledge, and experiences of our diverse community.
Learner-centered Education: We create an interactive experience that responds to the interrelated personal and professional lives of our students.
Social Justice: We commit to advancing equality and justice in our University, and in the local, national, and global communities impacted by our work.
Transformational Learning: We inspire a re-examination of one's world view and underlying assumptions to enable a deeper understanding of self and society