Advanced Graduate Writing Instructor, Onsite

  DeVine is a leading provider of Educational and Scientific solutions for Federal, State and commercial clients.  

Our company is looking for an Advanced Graduate Writing Instructor to join our team in Monterey, CA. This position will be supporting a government customer, hence only US Citizens may apply. 

Our client’s primary mission is to support the development of graduate and certificate-program students’ writing, critical thinking, and academic skills.  These services enhance students’ discipline-based learning, improve the quality of their academic work and help them complete their educational goals.

The successful Advanced Graduate Writing Instructor will join a team of Writing Instructors, and Thesis Processors, to provide one-to-one instruction focused on developing students’ writing, critical thinking, and other academic skills. Other services offered by the team include workshops, academic department-based courses, online guides and learning tools, and support with non-academic and multimodal writing.

If you have the relevant experience & attributes, and would enjoy working in the Monterey, CA, area, then we want you on our team!

Responsibilities:

• Provide one-to-one writing instruction support to graduate students
• Occasionally conduct research related to writing, critical thinking, program effectiveness, and special topics such as generative artificial intelligence’s (AI) impact on teaching and learning
• Edit faculty papers, faculty executive summaries and technical reports per year
• Analyze student papers for plagiarism, and create & maintained online learning and communication materials
• Develop and deliver 60- to 90-minute hands-on workshops and general presentations for students and faculty
• Support students in understanding academic norms and graduate-level standards with respect to writing, organizing thoughts, writing to conform to advanced presentation of arguments and evidence, brainstorming, outlining, revising, citing/attribution, ethical use and disclosure of generative AI, and interpreting and presenting data effectively
• Accommodate varying student needs and required support
• Review student papers 2 to 24 hours before appointments to: prioritize issues based on student requests and needs, review reports on students’ past appointments, develop consultation strategies
• Complete student client reports, short summaries of issues covered and progress made

• Master’s degree or higher in English, literature, journalism, communication, rhetoric, international or public policy, or related writing-intensive field from an accredited university
• Minimum master's degree GPA of 3.50
• 10+ years’ working one-to-one with university students to improve their writing, critical-thinking, or research skills
• 3+ years’ teaching experience in writing and critical thinking at the graduate-level - Preference is given to those with teaching awards
• At least one thesis, dissertation, or single-author final-project report of an academic standard, academic conference paper accepted by and presented at an academic conference, or publication in an academic journal or by an academic press
• Evidence of strong teamwork and collaboration to reach mutual goals.
• Production of original written work
• Verifiable experience with the following: Microsoft Office suite; classroom presentation software; classroom management software, such as Blackboard or Sakai; videoconference software, such as Zoom or MS Teams; and originality-check software, such as Turnitin or iThenticate

• English-language, academic-writing fundamentals, including organization, structure, grammar, writing conventions and styles, prewriting strategies, punctuation, word choice, paraphrasing, quoting, and citing
• Critical thinking, argumentation, and reasoning.
• Teaching pedagogy
• Research methods
• Academic norms and standards, such as citation styles and methods for avoiding plagiarism, and for producing original work, evidenced-based research, literature reviews, abstracts, and executive summarizes
• High academic standards, such as the importance of honor codes
• Strong computer skills for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, videoconferencing, file sharing, and project management and reporting

Position Type: Full-time Hourly, Must be U.S. Citizen 
Location: Monterey, CA 
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Life Insurance, Paid Holidays, Paid Sick Leave and Paid Vacation 
Compensation: $25.24 - $45.67 per hour compensation range, DOE and skills

Equal Opportunity Employer 

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