AI Faculty Strategist

Indiana Tech • Fort Wayne, IN

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About The Position

Indiana Tech is seeking an innovative, collaborative, and faculty-centered leader to serve as its AI Faculty Strategist. Reporting to the Executive Director of the AI Institute, with a dotted-line relationship to the Vice President for Academic Affairs, this position serves as the university’s primary faculty consultant for artificial intelligence pedagogy and instructional innovation. The AI Faculty Strategist leads Indiana Tech’s faculty-facing initiative for teaching AI within the curriculum and helps faculty build the knowledge, confidence, and instructional judgment needed to effectively integrate AI into teaching and learning. Serving concurrently as Director of the Teaching Excellence Center, the AI Faculty Strategist plays a central role in advancing Indiana Tech’s institutional AI strategy by helping faculty navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence in higher education. This position works closely with the Warrior AI Readiness Manager, the Director of Curriculum Design & AI Integration, academic deans, instructional designers, and faculty across disciplines to move instructors from AI awareness to meaningful course and program transformation. The AI Faculty Strategist serves as the primary point of contact for faculty seeking guidance on AI pedagogy, instructional design, assessment redesign, and responsible AI integration. The successful candidate will provide individual consultation, facilitate professional development opportunities, mentor faculty participating in AI innovation initiatives, and help faculty identify opportunities for course redesign and instructional improvement. Faculty projects selected for full redesign and implementation will be carried out in partnership with the Curriculum Design team. Additional responsibilities include developing and facilitating workshops, seminars, communities of practice, and faculty-development programs focused on AI in higher education. The Strategist will use institutional readiness data to identify coaching opportunities, contribute faculty-focused programming to university-wide AI initiatives, create instructional resources and teaching guides, support grant-related activities, and represent Indiana Tech’s AI efforts at institutional, regional, and national conferences.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in education, educational technology, instructional design, higher education, computer science, artificial intelligence, business, or a related discipline.
• A minimum of five years of higher-education teaching experience.
• Strong understanding of artificial intelligence applications in higher education, including their impact on teaching, learning, assessment, curriculum design, and student engagement.
• Record of instructional innovation.
• Experience integrating emerging educational technologies into academic programs and classroom environments.
• Demonstrated excellence in college teaching.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to engage faculty from a wide variety of academic disciplines.
• Strong consultation, facilitation, coaching, and presentation skills.
• Ability to foster collaboration while supporting faculty through instructional change and innovation.
• Experience in designing and facilitating faculty development programs, workshops, training sessions, or professional learning initiatives.
• Ability to translate complex AI concepts into practical instructional strategies that can be implemented effectively in diverse academic settings.

Nice To Haves

• Doctoral degree in education, instructional design, higher education, educational technology, artificial intelligence, computer science, business, or a related discipline.
• Scholarship related to teaching and learning, educational technology, instructional innovation, or artificial intelligence.
• Experience supporting online education.
• Experience supporting digital learning environments.
• Experience supporting faculty adoption of emerging technologies.
• Experience leading institutional teaching and learning initiatives.
• Experience developing instructional resources and toolkits.
• Experience presenting at professional conferences.
• Experience managing faculty innovation programs.
• Experience supporting grant-funded educational projects.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the university’s primary faculty consultant for artificial intelligence pedagogy and instructional innovation.
• Lead Indiana Tech’s faculty-facing initiative for teaching AI within the curriculum.
• Help faculty build the knowledge, confidence, and instructional judgment needed to effectively integrate AI into teaching and learning.
• Play a central role in advancing Indiana Tech’s institutional AI strategy by helping faculty navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence in higher education.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for faculty seeking guidance on AI pedagogy, instructional design, assessment redesign, and responsible AI integration.
• Provide individual consultation to faculty.
• Facilitate professional development opportunities for faculty.
• Mentor faculty participating in AI innovation initiatives.
• Help faculty identify opportunities for course redesign and instructional improvement.
• Develop and facilitate workshops, seminars, communities of practice, and faculty-development programs focused on AI in higher education.
• Use institutional readiness data to identify coaching opportunities.
• Contribute faculty-focused programming to university-wide AI initiatives.
• Create instructional resources and teaching guides.
• Support grant-related activities.
• Represent Indiana Tech’s AI efforts at institutional, regional, and national conferences.

Benefits

• Opportunity to influence teaching practices across the university.
• Opportunity to help position Indiana Tech as a leader in responsible and effective AI integration in higher education.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior