Part-Time Evaluator, Masters of Nursing Education

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**This role requires experience teaching 3 or more years in an Academic setting at a MSN level or higher and requires BOTH an MSN and a Terminal degree. Please make sure that your resume showcases the Academic level of instruction experience you possess AND the area of focus in your nursing degrees. Unclear information will result in a decline **

Position Summary

The Evaluator is a member of WGU’s faculty. The Evaluator is a subject-matter expert and professional individual contributor with level-knowledge within the associated specialization/discipline. Evaluators apply their own subject matter expertise and experience utilizing a rubric created by program and assessment development faculty and applied consistently with WGU, Evaluation Department, and team policies and procedures.  The Evaluator crafts personalized, robust feedback to support accurate scoring of student responses and in furtherance of student progress. Work plans and schedules for Evaluators are broadly defined and require the Evaluator to develop specific work plans and schedules to provide accurate and fair evaluations, with helpful (robust & personalized) feedback.  Evaluators cooperate within and between teams to meet the department’s commitment to students for a quick evaluation as defined by university leadership. An  Evaluator may be asked to contribute to the development of functional and organizational content, practices, and objectives to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. Such contributions may involve working with other functions within the Evaluation Department and/or with other departments. High performing, experienced Evaluators coach/mentor team members and assist colleagues. 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• The Evaluator’s work is situational and highly complex, requiring analysis and evaluation of student responses to assessment task prompts to achieve a secure, valid and reliable determination of competencies for degree programs.  

• The Evaluator applies university, department, and team policies and procedures in scoring work and crafting helpful, robust, and personalized feedback to support students in developing competency and progressing with their degree program.   

• On occasion, an experienced Evaluator may be called upon to create and implement methods to improve student success and evaluation processes.  

• The Evaluator's work is critical to each student’s experience and success at WGU.    

• The Evaluator works individually and collectively, as part of a content-specific team, to meet individual, team, and department objectives to be accurate, fair, helpful, and quick in an environment that is a great place to work.   

• The Evaluator works effectively and reports worktime accurately, in order to be good stewards of the student’s tuition dollars.  

• The Evaluator may be called on to resolve student concerns or address student inquiries.