Continuing Education Administrator, Senior

The Office of Research's Technical Assistance Program is seeking a Continuing Education Administrator, Senior to assist with design, development, and delivery of educational offerings to Purdue University's corporate partners. The role involves working closely with Purdue faculty, students, and staff SMEs to facilitate course design, development, and delivery.

What You Will Do

Responsibilities include preparing employees of partner organizations to accomplish/enhance cybersecurity/information security job results by planning, conducting, and evaluating a variety of learning and learner activities, courses, and laboratory exercises.

Why It Might Be a Fit

A successful candidate will have the ability to work with expert Purdue teams from multiple academic units and departments to meet the unique demands of critical partnerships, and will have the ability to grasp technical concepts, particularly those in the information technology and information security domains, and teach them to adult learners.

Requirements

• BA degree
• Four or more years that includes two or more years of classroom instruction, teaching technical and information technology
• Two or more years of teaching adult learners and two or more years of developing/building course materials, interacting with the information technology laboratory environments, and assessing student's understanding of complex concepts
• Ability to work with faculty, students, and staff SMEs of cybersecurity/information security across the Purdue University system to curate, correlate, compile, and develop cybersecurity educational materials
• Ability to design training materials by identifying and describing learner needs; using desktop publishing; submitting initial versions for review; revising and editing final copy
• Maintains safe and healthy training environment by following organization standards and legal regulations
• Conducts training classes by presenting job-specific, company-specific, and generic cybersecurity/information security best practices and technical knowledge
• Evaluates training by soliciting and analyzing learner feedback
• Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications, and pursuing professional development opportunities
• Strong presentation skills, particularly presenting technical information
• High level knowledge of cybersecurity domain, the desire to gain advanced subject matter knowledge is essential
• Technical zeal, self-confidence
• Familiarity with modern learning management systems and knowledge delivery systems
• Knowledge of cybersecurity concepts including network security, incident response, identity and access management, and vulnerability management

Benefits

• Defined Contribution Waiting Period