Position Title:
Adjunct Online Course Developer – Planning, Organization and Project Management
# of Openings: 1
Department/Program:
Academic Affairs 41000
Work Location:
100% Remote
Campus
Location:
Arapahoe Campus
Reports to:
Mary McHenry, Senior Director of Innovative Teaching & Learning
FLSA Classification:
Exempt/Salaried
FTE: 25% (10 hrs/week)
Compensation: $5,000
Final date to receive applications: 4/1 or until filled
Job Summary
Naropa University’s Online BA program seeks an experienced curriculum/content developer to design an online version of the undergraduate-level, three-credit online course POJS 304:
Planning, Organization and Project Management during the Spring 2026 course development cycle.
POJS 304:
Planning, Organization and Project Management This course prepares students with the fundamental tools and practices involved in planning, organizing, and project management. The course provides experiential knowledge and skills critical in the fields of social movement organizations (SMOs), non-profit, and government sectors. Planning encompasses a wide swath of topics including personal work plans and campaign plans. Organization examines advocacy, mobilization, and organizing strategies and tactics.
Project management provides in-depth instruction on how to manage a project in multi-stakeholder, community and civic based scenarios. This course is predicated on the principle of learning by doing, and students will be working in teams collaborating throughout the semester to practice these skills and principles of strategic planning, effective organizing, and proficient project management.
Supplementary Course
Description:
The format of this online asynchronous course includes but is not limited to: reading, video, audio, discussion, written and video assignments, experiential exercises, student learning partners, student-faculty meetings, self-directed research, and presentations.
Intellectual property rights in academic work are as follows:
• For online course development that is part of Naropa’s curriculum, copyright in the content is granted to the faculty member(s) with a non-exclusive license for future use of the material granted to Naropa. This means that both the faculty and Naropa will have rights to use, amend, and/or modify the content in perpetuity. Compensation in the form of a stipend payable for this course development is outlined below.
Job
Duties & Responsibilities:
• Create an eight-module, asynchronous online course development plan.
• Generate (in conjunction with the Office of Educational Technologies) online content, including recorded lectures, practice sessions, and experiential learning activities; textual material; assignments; and assessment rubrics; and
• Create the online course with support of the Office of Educational Technologies, including the implementation of ADA-compliant readings, study guides, threaded discussions, quizzes, links to web resources, as appropriate with the course.
• Work with the Naropa College instructional design team, develop an asynchronous online course, to be taught in Canvas, Naropa’s Learning Management System.
• Incorporate established best practices and follow essential procedures to design a quality online course.
• Create and maintain a positive team environment and behave professionally with everyone encountered in the course and scope of the job duties.
What Naropa Requires…
• All job candidates must demonstrate their level of understanding of the dynamics of privilege and oppression, and the impact these have on equity, access, and opportunity.
• All job candidates must demonstrate an appropriate level of understanding of and appreciation for the values of Naropa University and the capacity to demonstrate an integration and embodiment of these values as evidenced in work, communication, collaboration styles, and other general workplace behaviors.
Educational requirement:
MA or PhD in Political Science, Management, or a related field
Minimum length of prior applicable professional experience required:
• 2 years
Minimum Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and/or Competencies
Required:
• Experience developing online learning experiences and/or teaching online
• An…