Investments Instructor (part-time/adjunct) @ Any Northwood Tech Campus Location

Are you passionate about helping students connect real-world finance to meaningful careers? Northwood Technical College is seeking a dynamic part-time instructor to teach a course on Investments. This is an opportunity to bring your professional experience into the classroom and empower the next generation of financial professionals.

Our instructors are not just teachers—they are mentors, innovators, and collaborators who create engaging, hands-on learning experiences in face-to-face, online, and hybrid settings. Northwood Tech values creativity, flexibility, and a shared commitment to student success and community impact.

*This position may be performed on campus or remotely, depending on instructor needs. In-person attendance on campus is required approximately twice per semester.

• Actively embody and promote Northwood Tech’s Values:
  • Collaboration – Value relationships that enhance learning and promote economic development.
  • Innovation – Embrace the latest theories and technologies to support student and community success.
  • Excellence – Prioritize high quality education, services, and continuous improvement in a dynamic learning environment.
  • Community – Value our deep connections to our communities by working together to provide solutions through student success.
  • Support – Empower individuals by supporting their success with quality experiences and services designed to meet their needs.
  • Integrity – Uphold honesty and accountability in a diverse, open, and ethical learning and working environment.
  • Respect – Value each individual and approach all interactions mindfully, with civility, empathy, and openness to new and differing ideas.
• Develop and continually revise curriculum that includes Employability Essentials and technical content to meet industry and/or regulatory standards.
• Plan for instruction, including syllabi development, learning plans, and assessment strategies.
• Deliver, assess, and adapt effective instruction that meets the diverse needs of students.
• Apply a variety of instructional strategies, create learning plans, facilitate learning, and revise teaching practice.
• Promote a culture of continuing student success, implement strategies to promote learner persistence and meet the needs of multi-generational learners, demonstrate learner-centered communication, and utilize available student support services.
• Create performance-based assessment plans, employ a variety of formative and summative assessment strategies, communicate assessment results in a timely fashion to promote student learning, and use assessment results to improve instruction.
• Demonstrate professional behaviors to support teaching and learning and utilize varied strategies for managing the learning environment.
• Identify exit learning outcomes and external standards, develop competencies that describe intended learning outcomes, create performance-based plans and assessment tasks for each course, develop learning objectives and plans, prepare syllabi, and utilize a quality review process to validate curriculum.
• Utilize a variety of data analysis tools, analyze data from teaching and learning experiences, and use data to inform decision making about the teaching and learning process.
• Assess effectiveness in embracing diversity, examine the impact of college, community, and student demographics on teaching and learning, and create an inclusive, effective learning environment that addresses barriers and provides reasonable accommodations.
• May be assigned to mentor high school teachers who offer Northwood Tech-articulated courses.
• Model the Employability Essentials expected of Northwood Tech students, which are to communicate clearly, think critically, and demonstrate professionalism, and practice inclusivity.
• Designated as a Campus Security Authority (CSA) to receive and report criminal incidents to the Northwood Tech Safety Office by virtue of this role’s responsibilities at the College (only applies to instructor positions with club advising duties).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Degree & Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Management, or related field or equivalent*
  • *Equivalent educational/occupational experience may be an Associate’s degree plus 6 years of occupational experience in Investments or related Financial Services profession
• Minimum of two years (4,000 hours) of occupational experience in Investments or related Financial Services profession of which at least one year (2,000 hours) shall be within 5 years prior to the date of appointment

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Demonstrated skill and ability using technology and the ability to learn new technology
• Ability to obtain driver’s license and insurance coverage in accordance with College policy

Preferred:

• Professional background in investments, banking, insurance, real estate, or corporate finance
• Proficient in MS Excel and experience with MS Office Suite
• Teaching, mentoring, or corporate training experience, especially using a Learning Management System (LMS) such as Blackboard
• Familiarity with both in-person and remote instruction, with the ability to adapt to diverse learners
• Experience developing or improving curriculum, projects, or case studies that connect classroom learning to industry realities
• A master’s degree in finance, business, or a closely related field is a plus.

FY26 Salary - Adjunct Faculty:

Non-FQAS Completion - $44 / hour

FQAS Completion - $49 / hour

There are no benefits offered for this position.

• More detailed information online at https://www.northwoodtech.edu/about/employment/benefits