Faculty Development Specialist Job Pooler area,Georgia USA,Education / Teaching

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.

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a difference, grow professionally, and be part of a caring team,

Position Overview:

As a Faculty Development Specialist at Galen College of Nursing, you will support faculty growth and instructional effectiveness through onboarding, mentoring, classroom observation, coaching, faculty development, and data-informed support. Working collaboratively with campus academic leadership provides individualized and campus-based support designed to strengthen teaching practices, student engagement, and student learning.

Key Responsibilities:

Provides structured onboarding, mentoring, and ongoing support for newly hired faculty.

Supports faculty teaching a course for the first time through proactive preparation, coaching, and appropriate follow-up.

Collaborates with academic leadership to identify faculty-development needs and coordinate timely support.

Conducts faculty observations across instructional modalities using approved observation tools, with priority given to new faculty, faculty teaching a course for the first time, faculty teaching high-risk courses, and faculty identified as needing additional instructional support.

Provides timely, specific, constructive, and actionable feedback that recognizes strengths and identifies opportunities for growth.

Provides individualized coaching to strengthen teaching effectiveness, student engagement, active learning, classroom management, formative assessment, instructional technology, and other evidence-based teaching practices.

Conducts appropriate follow-up coaching and observations to evaluate implementation of recommendations, recognize improvement, and identify continued support needs.

Uses classroom observations, faculty and student feedback, course attrition, student performance, and other available outcome data to identify faculty-development needs and priorities.

Collaborates with academic leadership to develop targeted faculty-development interventions in response to identified needs.

Monitors faculty-development interventions and uses available evidence to evaluate faculty progress and effectiveness of support.

Communicates significant instructional trends, faculty-development needs, intervention progress, and relevant outcomes to academic leadership.

Collaborates to develop and deliver workshops, training, learning communities, resources, and other faculty-development opportunities aligned with identified needs.

Promotes evidence-based teaching practices, adult-learning principles, student-engagement strategies, and effective use of educational technology.

Supports faculty participation in required and recommended professional-development activities.

Assists with campus-based and college-wide faculty-development initiatives.

Serves as a campus-based faculty-development resource and builds collaborative relationships with faculty, Program Directors, Deans, course leaders, and other academic partners.

Maintains appropriate documentation of faculty observations, coaching,…