Baking and Pastry Instructor

Description

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Sullivan University is an organization that is truly committed to making a difference. We host a wide variety of career opportunities, offer a family-oriented culture, and invest in our employees.

Join us if you want:

• Internal Mobility
• The Opportunity to Make a Difference in the Lives of our Students
• Professional Training and Development
• Individual Coaching
• A Diverse and Positive Work Environment
• To Support Local Charities through the Sullivan Cares Program

• 90% Tuition Discount through the Master’s degree level for the employee and 40% dependent discount after your first quarter from date of hire (dependent discount increases to 90% after 3 years).
• A Generous Benefits Package with Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, Long-Term Care, Short Term Care, Auto, and Home Insurance.
• 401K
• Competitive Salary
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time
• Paid Volunteer Time
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Employee Discounts at Local Restaurants and Venues
• Comprehensive Wellness Program

We are currently looking for a full-time Baking and Pastry faculty member at our main campus in Louisville. Faculty-Chef Instructor members report to their respective Dean; however, they may have a dotted line reporting responsibility to a specified Department/Program Director. Faculty-chef instructor members are student-centered, teaching mentors who assist students to progress through their academic programs to completion. The faculty-chef instructor is responsible for implementing curriculum, demonstrating culinary techniques, supervising kitchen labs, and evaluating student performance.

The ideal candidate will have familiarity with a commercial kitchen, ability to apply formal baking, pastry, and/or culinary education training in a classroom environment, ability to stand for several hours at a time, a passion for their craft and student success, a willingness to teach classes or students, and work individually with students as necessary to perfect their baking, pastry, and/or cooking skills.

Hours for this position are typically 7 am-3 pm Monday-Friday

• Instruction and Assessment of Student Learning:
  • Within face-to-face, online, and/or hybrid learning environments, the faculty member facilitates student learning, delivers effective and career-relevant instruction, provides an environment conducive to learning, evaluates student learning for all assigned classes, responds to student inquiries and grades all assignment in a timely manner.
  • Engages student by using student engagement instructional techniques (i.e., collaborative learning, experiential learning, and/or problem based learning).
  • Delivers course curriculum utilizing the University’s learning management system.
  • Participates in course and program level learning assessments; including/but not limited to defining student learning outcomes, choosing and administering measures, evaluating student performance, suggesting changes to improve student learning, and as assigned, identifying updates and corrections to courses.
  • Participates in student retention: including/but not limited to reaching out to students who have excessive absences, documenting their student retention activities, and ensuring students are aware of the University services that may be of value to their students’ successful completion of their academic program
  • Communicates availability (e.g., office hours) to all students (i.e., face-to-face, online, or hybrid learning environments) via email, phone, or other personal contact.
• Scholarship and Professional Development:
  • Participates in the annual faculty-chef instructor performance review process.
  • Participates in the University’s Professional Development Program.
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