College of Arts & Sciences, Family and Consumer Sciences Residential Adjunct: Event Planning and Professional & Creative Industries Program

Liberty University • Lynchburg, VA

28d • Onsite

About The Position

Liberty University’s Department of Family & Consumer Sciences invites applications for an adjunct professor in its Event Planning and Professional & Creative Industries Bachelor of Science programs. The programs are growing quickly, and the department seeks an individual who is passionate about teaching event planning and career courses. Candidates must embrace Liberty University’s evangelical mission and be committed to training champions for Christ. Adjuncts are essential to Liberty University’s mission of Training Champions for Christ. It is expected that an adjunct member models a personal commitment to the goals and values of Liberty University, engage in an active commitment to, and experience of, personal spiritual formation within a biblically informed Christian worldview. Adjuncts should view their teaching, engagement with students, and scholarship as a means to a significant educational end. They should strive to employ a variety of techniques for the development of good learning conditions, view each student as a unique individual, and insofar as it is possible, provide for individual differences, abilities, and interests.

Requirements

• Master’s degree with at least 18 graduate credit hours in event management, hospitality, business, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience working in the events and creative industries
• Strong commitment to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students
• Embrace Liberty University’s evangelical mission and be committed to training champions for Christ.

Nice To Haves

• Master's or terminal degree in meeting and event management or a related field
• Previous teaching experience in higher education
• Extensive professional experience in the field

Responsibilities

• Teach event planning and career courses.
• Model a personal commitment to the goals and values of Liberty University.
• Engage in an active commitment to, and experience of, personal spiritual formation within a biblically informed Christian worldview.
• View teaching, engagement with students, and scholarship as a means to a significant educational end.
• Employ a variety of techniques for the development of good learning conditions.
• View each student as a unique individual and provide for individual differences, abilities, and interests.

Benefits

• The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• All management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner.
• Recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes.
• All personnel related activities such as compensation, benefits, transfers, job classification, assignments, working conditions, educational assistance, terminations, layoffs, and return from layoffs, and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including all applicable state of employment protected classes.
• The University is a Christian religious-affiliated organization; and as such, is not subject to religious discrimination requirements.
• The University’s hiring practices and EEO discrimination practices are in full compliance with both federal and state law.
• Federal law creates an exception to the “religion” component of the employment discrimination laws for religious organizations (including educational institutions), and permits them to give employment practice preference to members of their own religious beliefs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level