Part time Professor for Computer Science

About LINC Education

LINC Education (www.linceducation.com), headquartered in Singapore, is a global pioneer in providing high-touch, high-quality educator-led support services to universities around the world. Its specialist services are highly sought after by university managements and faculty to retain and grow their online student enrolments. LINC’s services are customized for each university and delivered using a cutting-edge technology platform (LINCtrac) to provide a superior and effective learning experience to students.

LINC is managed by education sector professionals with more than 30 years of combined experience and overseen by an advisory board of the best academic professionals in the world. Dr. M Rammohan Rao (ex-Dean, Indian School of Business and ex-Director, IIM Bangalore) and Deepak Chandra (Secretary – Education, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and ex-Deputy Dean, Indian School of Business) are members of the LINC Board of Advisors.

Position Summary

LINC is working with a leading Australia-based university partner to help them set up their campus in GIFT City, Gujarat. LINC is recruiting experienced business educators (LINC Fellows) as sessional staff (part-time) at the campus. The educators will work as independent contractors of LINC and serve the student body enrolled at the graduate-level programs in Computing (Graduate Certificate / Master in Computing / Data Analytics). The candidates must have prior teaching experience with the following subject(s) - Programming and Data Structures, Data Management Systems, System Analysis and Project Management, Web Development.

LINC Fellows will support the full-time faculty at the campus and provide academic support to the students in the form of 1:1 consultations and group sessions. The LINC Fellows will be contracted during each unit or subject which is expected to range between 7 to 14 weeks in duration. The LINC Fellow must be available to start on 25 June 2024.

Important: Only candidates based in GIFT City / Gandhinagar / Ahmedabad region and willing to travel to the campus will be considered for this position

What’s on offer?

The contract-based role offers a competitive remuneration typically between INR 60,000-100,000 per unit (based on unit duration, scope of work, committed weekly time, batch size and experience level of the LINC Fellow) when actively engaged, plus up to 40% performance-based incentives.

Professional benefits include:
• Interacting with high-quality global university faculty;
• Developing deeper subject understanding;
• Gaining richer academic exposure;
• Improving interpersonal and cross-cultural skills.

Roles & Responsibilities

LINC Fellows will be responsible for providing:
• Academic guidance to postgraduate students;
• Orientation and support in study planning;
• Support in report writing and research skills;
• 1:1 and small group tutoring sessions;
• Guidance on relevant reference material;
• Assessment marking;
• Feedback on work and assessments;
• Timely responses to student queries;
• Management of discussion forums; and
• Other activities which will improve the student learning experience.

Desired candidate profile
• PG/Doctoral degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, Information Systems, Information Technology, Operations Research, Quantitative Methods, or related fields with distinction or first-class from a top university in India;
• At least 5 years of corporate experience and/or teaching experience in any of the following fields at a leading university or college (note: at least 3 years formal teaching experience at a university or college is a MUST);
• Those who can teach courses in Programming, Data Structures, Data Management Systems, Systems Analysis, Project Management, Data Science, Analytics, etc.
• Comfort with technologies such as Apache Airflow, Apache HBase, Apache Hive, Excel, Hadoop, Keras, MongoDB, MySQL, PowerBI, PySpark, Python, SAS, Tableau and TensorFlow will be an added advantage;
• Empathetic, ambitious, warm and outgoing personality willing to work closely with people from diverse culture;
• Proficient in English language;
• Ability to quickly learn and use technology platforms for interacting with students including host university’s LMS and LINCtrac (training on these platforms will be provided