Faculty Development Specialist- Miami Campus

At Galen College of Nursing, we educate and empower nurses to change lives. Since 1989, we’ve dedicated our work to delivering high-quality nursing education with a student-first mindset. As one of the largest private nursing colleges in the country, we combine the support of a close-knit learning environment with the strength of a nationally recognized institution, HCA Healthcare.

That same passion for excellence in the classroom extends to our offices. At Galen, you’ll find a culture deeply rooted in collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to improving the future of healthcare. Your work directly touches the next generation of nurses, and your contributions help our students pursue their dream of a compassionate career.

As a Faculty Development Specialist at Galen College of Nursing, you will be responsible for improving instructional effectiveness and supporting faculty success through structured onboarding, classroom observation, mentoring, coaching, and data-informed faculty development. The role provides direct campus-based support to new faculty, faculty teaching courses for the first time, and faculty identified as needing instructional development. The position contributes to improved student learning outcomes, course success, faculty performance, retention of effective faculty, and program outcomes, including course attrition and NCLEX readiness indicators.

This is a campus-based role that partners closely with campus academic leadership to support consistent implementation of instructional expectations, improve teaching effectiveness, strengthen student learning, and contribute to improved course and program outcomes, including course attrition, faculty performance, student progression, and NCLEX readiness indicators.

• Provides structured onboarding and first-year mentoring for newly hired faculty, including orientation to Galen’s curriculum, instructional expectations, classroom standards, student engagement practices, assessment expectations, learning management system use, and institutional teaching resources.
• Develops and monitors individualized first-year faculty support plans, including scheduled check-ins, classroom observations, feedback sessions, and documented progress toward teaching-effectiveness expectations.
• Provides ongoing support to new faculty during their first year of teaching, with particular attention to classroom readiness, course preparation, instructional delivery, student engagement, and alignment with course outcomes.
• Collaborates with Program Directors, Deans, course leaders, and the Teaching & Learning Academy to identify new faculty support needs and ensure timely intervention when concerns are identified.
• Provides proactive coaching and preparation support for faculty teaching a course for the first time, including review of course expectations, instructional planning, student learning outcomes, common areas of student difficulty, assessment alignment, and available teaching resources.
• Partners with campus academic leadership to identify faculty assigned to new course preparations and ensure appropriate support before and during the first course delivery.
• Conducts classroom observations and follow-up coaching for faculty teaching a course for the first time to support effective course delivery and early identification of instructional concerns.
• Conducts documented classroom observations across delivery modalities using approved observation tools, with priority given to:
  New faculty;
  Faculty in their first year of teaching;
  Faculty teaching a course for the first time;
  Faculty teaching high-risk or high-attrition courses;
  Faculty with concerning student course feedback;
  Faculty referred by academic…