Full-time, non-tenured track, (10-month) faculty position to teach classroom, hybrid, and online accounting and business-related courses. Instructor must meet requirements for teaching both Accounting and Business Administration courses. Teaching assignments may be located in Highlands, Hardee, or DeSoto counties as needed. Position begins Fall (August 2024).

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Guides learning in the teaching discipline and related courses at various campuses and centers.
• Assists in curriculum development, creating learning activities and implementing assessment and planning.
• Works a basic work week of forty (40) hours which includes classroom instruction, office hours for student conferences, preparation/research and other professional activities.
• Attends and participates in departmental meetings, college-wide academic meetings, and official functions scheduled by the administration. Serves on college committees as assigned.
• Evaluates student learning outcomes and objective achievement, maintaining and reporting information as prescribed by college policies and procedures; supervises students and resolves classroom problems.
• Maintains appropriate credentials and current knowledge of developments and teaching strategies in the discipline/program areas taught. Participates in professional development activities including, but not limited to: workshops and conferences; membership in professional organizations; self-improvement course work and activities.
• Participates in and supports faculty and student activities. Maintains good relationships with community agencies and groups, participating when appropriate.
• Contributes to unit planning, assessment, and college institutional effectiveness efforts.
• Acts in accordance with College policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  SFSC is strongly committed to diversity and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.

Educational: Minimum of a Master's degree in Accounting from a regionally accredited institution with 18 graduate semester hours in business courses (or 18 graduate semester hours in accounting and a Master's degree in Business Administration) required.

(Candidates who meet the criteria for accounting or business Master's degrees and have significant graduate coursework in the other discipline, may be considered if completion of the required 18 graduate semester hours is imminent.)

OR in lieu of the educational requirements listed above: Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in accounting or business with significant industry experience (5-7 years) combined with industry certifications (such as a CPA, CMA, CIA, CFE, or EA) may substitute.

Preference will be given to those with accounting industry experience or certifications. Doctorate in accounting or business preferred.

Please submit unofficial copies of your transcripts for review. You will be allowed to do this during the application process or you may login in at a later time and upload them as "additional documents". Please note that the online application system supports files up to 2 MB in size. While scanning your documents, please use PDF as your output file. Files being scanned should be done so at a lower resolution (<200 dpi) and any images should be reduced to a lower resolution as to ensure that they will not to be rejected by the system.

Experiential: Minimum of five years of work experience in accounting and/or business required. Preference given to those with accounting experience. Experience with QuickBooks, tax software, data analysis, and enterprise resource planning systems preferred. Ability to teach a wide range of accounting and business-related courses (Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, QuickBooks, Business Law, and Entrepreneurship)required.

Other: Post-secondary teaching and distance learning modality (Zoom, Blackboard, Canvas) as well as experience in developing relevant courses and curriculum development preferred.

Classification: Faculty

Instructional Supervisor: Chair, Business and Information Technologies

Posting Date: March 28, 2024

Starting Annual Salary Range: with a Bachelor's degree $47,691 - $53,414; with a Master's degree $51,396 - $57,564; with a Master's degree 30 GSH $53,151 - $59,529; with a Doctorate $56,395 - $63,162

Application review begins: April 29, 2024

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