Pharmacy Technician Instructor

Position Summary:

The Pharmacy Technician Instructor is responsible for providing instructional support to ensure students meet the established learning objectives and supporting the growth and development of the program to comply with industry standards and the needs of the community, across all Penn Foster Group brands.

The instructor will provide one-on-one instructional support to include responses to student’s inbound academic inquiries using distance education technologies, including phone, email, SMS text messaging, and portal messaging.

The instructor will offer daily office hours for tutoring via an appointment scheduling tool and provide substantial feedback on practicum skills assessment forms.  This will include the evaluation of the clinical lab skills completed by the student prior to externship.

The instructor will participate in curriculum design, including development and revision, and support the creation of student resources including but not limited to weekly live and/or recorded webinars and learning resource materials.

The instructor will utilize program learning outcomes to monitor student progress daily.

The instructor will conduct outreach using distance education technologies to provide academic advising and support to ensure student learning and successful program completion.

The instructor will participate in the externship experience.

This will include the evaluation of clinical sites information, State BOP Tech/Trainee License, drug screen, and background check and answer questions regarding the clinical skills and supporting the externship preceptor and externship coordinator, if applicable.

Essential Job Functions:


* Provide data-driven interventions and outreach in the development of programming that meets changing industry needs.


* Review program and course-level outcomes data and surveys to determine students' needs; provide data-driven interventions/outreach as needed.


* Review, evaluate, and suggest program curricula changes and practices to assure compliance with professional standards, state-mandated guidelines, externship skills, requirements of business, industry, and higher education technologies, appointment scheduler, and feedback and evaluations on exams, assignments, and externship skills, conduct live or recorded webinars.


* Check email daily and respond to students’ inquiries within 24 hours, complete grading of submitted manually graded assignments within 5 business days.


* Provide academic support and advising to students to include but not limited to using distance education technologies, appointment scheduler, live and recorded webinars, and feedback and evaluations on exams, assignments, and externship skills.


* Participate in course design, development, and revision in partnership with the program director and instructional design team, development of programming that meets changing industry needs.


* Create videos and online lectures and incorpora...