Adjunct Lecturer, Strategic Advocacy – (In person - Fall 2023)

Company Description

Columbia University has been a leader in higher education in the nation and around the world for more than 250 years. At the core of our wide range of academic inquiry is the commitment to attract and engage the best minds in pursuit of greater human understanding, pioneering new discoveries, and service to society.

The School of Professional Studies at Columbia University offers innovative and rigorous programs that integrate knowledge across disciplinary boundaries, combine theory with practice, leverage the expertise of our students and faculty, and connect global constituencies. Through eighteen professional master's degrees, courses for advancement and graduate school preparation, certificate programs, summer courses, high school programs, and a program for learning English as a second language, the School of Professional Studies transforms knowledge and understanding in service of the greater good.

Job Description

The School of Professional Studies M.S. in Technology Management program is seeking industry professionals with experience driving enhanced organizational performance through the use of technology, to serve as part-time Lecturers for an in-person course in Strategic Advocacy. 

Some of the topics that will be covered in the Strategic Advocacy course are the political economy of exercising executive influence, expert and strategic mindsets, strategic learning, and planning and mapping the political territory.

Students will build a good foundation for understanding strategic advocacy, strategic learning and thinking as applied to organizations, and individual action for initiating strategically focused technology-related business conversations within these institutional settings.  Students will learn models for understanding how strategy emerges through processes of individual, group and organizational learning.  Students will also develop capacity for strategically addressing organizational and societal challenges marked by the complexity being driven and intensified by technology.porting and communicating findings.

Responsibilities
● Lead class lectures, instructional activities, and classroom discussion.
● Evaluate, grade student work and assessments.
● Monitor and address student concerns and inquiries.
● Conduct weekly office hours.

Qualifications

Columbia University SPS operates under a scholar-practitioner faculty model, which enables students to learn from faculty that have outstanding academic training as well as a record of accomplishment as practitioners in an applied industry setting. 

Requirements

• Graduate degree in an area related to organization & leadership, management, social-organizational psychology or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in a role involving management and leadership.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Doctoral degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• University teaching experience.

Additional Information

Salary: $12,360 per semester-length course teaching

• Please submit a resume inclusive of university teaching experience.
• Must reside and be eligible to work in the United States.

All interested should apply as soon as possible as applications will be reviewed upon receipt. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, August 16th.

Your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.