Continuing Education Instructor, Children’s Book: Portfolio and Professional Practice

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Bachelor's Degree
• •Track record of professional experience at companies successfully doing related work
• •Robust, creative, intellectually and critically engaged design or studio practice, as evidenced by recognition in publications, commissions, exhibitions, awards and/or collaborative projects
• •Teaching experience, including the ability to create syllabi and lesson plans, and how to tie those to learning outcomes
• •Ability to accept and act upon constructive feedback from course evaluations by students and staff
• •Strong interpersonal, communication and organizational skills
• •Ability to meet RISD's technology requirements
• •Experience leading classes and critiques that model inclusivity in an environment of diverse learners
• •Ability to tailor instruction to meet the needs students with a wide range of pre-existing skills
• •In-depth knowledge of Children's Book Illustration and Publishing
• •Ability to teach topics including writing book proposals, submission guidelines, how to seek representation, what makes a well-rounded portfolio, and what it is like to work with an editor on a book project
• •Ability to discuss a variety of publishing approaches, such as self-publishing and traditional publishing
• •Ability to teach students how to create and further develop the content in one's illustration portfolio, how to edit the body of work, and how to present it to the picture book publishing industry
• •Ability to teach skills to scan traditional work and digitally optimize work for online portfolios, marketing and submissions
• •Published children's book illustrator
• •Experience teaching adult students professional development
• •Ability to respond to students in a timely manner
• •Ability to communicate with the discipline and division via college-provided tools and resources
• •Ability to develop culturally diverse syllabi for studio and seminar courses
• •Ability to provide weekly feedback to student work that models constructive criticism that encourages students to grow creatively and intellectually
• •Ability to teach asynchronous online courses to a diverse group of students from a range of disciplines, through online content development, including recorded video demonstrations and/or lectures provided weekly for the course duration
• •Ability to accept and act upon constructive feedback from course evaluations by students and staff
• •Ability to empathically relate to a wide range of student perspectives and maturely handle interpersonal issues that may arise
• •Experience in course content development, including video creation of demonstrations and lectures
• •The successful candidate will be required to meet our pre-employment background screening requirements

Desired Qualifications

• •Teaching experience in a collegiate or adult education setting that addresses underrepresented communities
• •Online teaching experience, or experience utilizing an LMS
• •MFA preferred or equivalent in established professional practice in area of study
• •Lifelong learning orientation with demonstrated interest in learning about new developments in their area of study
• •Statement of interest preferred