Emergency Medical Service Faculty

Title: Emergency Medical Service Faculty

Agency: Germanna Community College

Location: Orange - 137

FLSA: Exempt

Hiring Range: $71,422-$107,373; plus full state benefits

Full Time or Part Time: Full Time

Additional Detail

Job Description:

Full-time faculty at Germanna Community College support the college mission, vision, and values, and are an important part of a community and culture designed to meet the community’s changing educational needs. Faculty are dedicated to student success through teaching, mentoring, and encouraging our student population to think critically and independently with the goal of self-discovery and problem-solving.

Full-time faculty will:

• Normally teach 15 credit hours per semester (dependent upon discipline) during the academic year
• Be accessible to students outside the classroom and hold a minimum of ten on-campus or virtual office hours per week; if offering online office hours, they are required to provide online synchronous office hours suitable for the needs of all students
• Use multiple teaching modalities to engage the student population
• When instructing in distance learning modalities, be expected to implement the components of regular and substantive interaction (RSI) and keep documentation of their efforts, either through the learning management system or another method, to ensure that federal guidelines are met after appropriate training is provided by the college
• Provide students with timely feedback on assignments and documented formative and summative evaluations of progress
• Provide academic advising to students and disseminate current information pertaining to services available to students at the college
• Use a learning management system for course information delivery to students
• Be involved in curriculum development, academic assessment, and re-accreditation 
• Participate in commencement; convocation; college-wide, division, department, faculty meetings; assigned committees, task forces, projects; search committees; recruitment/community events; professional development activities; and other tasks as assigned that promote the college’s overall mission, in-person or virtually as required
• Create and maintain learning environments that support and engage students in cooperative, collaborative, meaningful and relevant learning experiences
• Encourage students to think critically and independently in ways that lead to self-discovery and problem-solving, as individuals and as members of a learning community
• Encourage students’ competencies and talents in ways that are consistent with course and program outcomes and lead to careers and transfer opportunities
• Work collaboratively with others (including full- and part-time instructors) across the college to ensure consistency of student outcomes and continuity of material through department, division, or cross-disciplinary activities and to advance Germanna’s culture of caring for the whole student
• Participate in scholarly and creative engagement as well as service to the college and to the community
• Be knowledgeable of and adhere to all applicable college, local, state, and federal guidelines, regulations, and policies pertaining to employment at a state institution
• Adhere to all administration and college deadlines
• Professionally develop and continuously improve teaching and learning
• Incorporate equitable teaching practices in all instruction
• Complete other tasks as assigned by the dean or program head
• Adhere to the faculty handbook

Teaching duties, in collaboration with a department chair, may include:

• Day, evening, and/or weekend courses based on departmental needs, student needs, and faculty availability
• Assignment at more than one campus or center
• On- and off-campus, distance learning, web delivery, and instructional laboratory and clinical assignments, as appropriate and assigned for the discipline

• Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution in Emergency Medical Services or a closely related field of study, or required credentials specified in the VCCS-29: Normal Criteria for Each Faculty Rank.
• Current Virginia State and nationally certified Paramedic.
• Virginia State EMS Education Coordinator certification with ability to teach EMT, AEMT and Paramedic students to include ACLS, BLS, and PALS.
• At least two (2) years of academic or clinical experience in the practice of emergency medicine or prehospital care in the last five (5) years.
• College level teaching experience in EMS.
• Experience with or willingness to learn artificial intelligence tools.

• Master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution in Emergency Medical Services or a closely related field of study.
• Community college teaching experience.
• Experience in instruction, curriculum development and design, program planning, accreditation, service learning, and in academic/clinical coordination.
• Experience reviewing assessment data to improve student success.