Field Supervisor for Office of Field Experience - Non-Tenure Track Vacancy Pool

Field Supervisor for Office of Field Experience

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The Woodring College of Education and the Office of Field Experience Department support Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The Office of Field Experience (OFE) coordinates and provides oversight for the student teaching experiences for all Woodring College of Education teacher education programs and the assignment, training, and supervision of all NTT UICs. Under the leadership of its Dean, the faculty, staff and students of Woodring College of Education are pursuing a shared vision to foster "community relationships and a culture of learning that advance knowledge, honor diversities, and promote social justice."

The College is committed to cultivating student competence through extensive field experiences with exemplary practicing professionals, and to integrating diversity issues in all curriculum and field experiences.

The Woodring College of Education offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate teacher certification programs in Bellingham, Bremerton, and Everett. The Office of Field Experiences (OFE) oversees all student teaching placements and supervision and maintains an active vacancy pool for qualified Non-Tenure Track University Intern Coordinators (NTT UIC) to supervise the student teaching candidates. The NTT UIC positions are temporary, part-time and based upon the needs of the unit for supervision.

Position Responsibilities:

NTT UICs supervise teacher education candidates and collaborate with school personnel in the evaluation, support, and mentoring of each candidate. NTT UICs responsibilities include a minimum number of hours of observation, mentoring, collaboration, completion of internship evaluations, and submission of all required documents and evaluations to OFE. Training is provided.

Job Location:

Primarily Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish, King, Pierce, and Kitsap counties; possible need in other counties within the State of Washington.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree plus graduate credits
• Experience in the appropriate educational field (teaching and/or…