Job Details
Position Type: Non Classified
Job Title: Academic Quality Specialist
Classification Title: Project Program Specialist
Campus Location: ASU Beebe
Job Description
GENERAL DESCRIPTION Coordinates a variety of activities within the Distance Education department. These activities will include researching/learning new products/programs, scheduling/teaching training sessions, reviewing/updating courses within the LMS, managing the student orientation sessions, working with faculty in areas as needed, coordinating testing/proctoring as needed, providing technical support as needed, and assisting the director in other assigned areas.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Coordinate Distance Education training sessions. This will include setting times, locations, developing agendas, communicating the sessions, signing up participants, managing session evaluations, and sending out PD certificates. Will facilitate the actual training and provide technical support to faculty/staff/students following training.
- Manage online proctoring settings in the courses, proctoring communication and troubleshooting. Coordinate testing/proctoring for online proctoring. This includes working with the director of distance education for technical/software management, collecting/disbursing proctoring information, and planning.
- Designs and develops course components and interactions demonstrating knowledge and experience of instructional design, development, implementation, and assessments in an academic environment. Assist in reviewing/updating courses within the LMS.
- Assist with the face-2-face and online student LMS orientation sessions. This includes developing the training session, training others to deliver the sessions, overseeing the required completion for all incoming freshmen.
- Manage course and instructor evaluation surveys within the LMS.
- Coordinate Quality Matters training.
- Assist the director and other Distance Education employees as needed.
- Other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience resulting in broad knowledge of a field related to the job, such as education, accounting, marketing, business administration, etc.
- Experience General: 12 to 18 months related experience and/or training
- Experience in training, learning management systems, and online proctoring coordination
Minimum Salary or Salary Range: $36,000-$38,500
Stand: frequently
Walk: frequently
Sit: regularly
Use hand to finger, handle, or feel: regularly
Reach with hands and arms: occasionally
Stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl: occasionally
Talk or Hear: continuously
Up to 10 pounds: frequently
Does this position have any special vision requirements? Check all that apply.: Close vision, Distance vision, Color vision, Peripheral vision, Depth perception, Ability to adjust focus
Background Check Statement: This position will be subject to a pre-employment criminal, sex-offender registry background check. In cases where pre-determined, an additional financial/credit history/ background check may be required as well. Convictions that have been sealed or legally eradicated and misdemeanor convictions for which probation was completed and the case was dismissed, will be excluded. Disclosure does not constitute an automatic bar to employment. Factors such as dates of the offense, seriousness and nature of the violation, rehabilitation and position applied for will be taken into account.
Background Check Requirements: Both
ASU Beebe EEO Statement: Arkansas State University-Beebe shall provide equal opportunity for employment to all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status, and shall strive to achieve full and equal employment opportunity throughout our campuses for faculty and staff. Our goal is to foster a workplace community where individuals are valued for their diverse backgrounds and differences.
Posting Number: NC3592014
Open Date: 09/16/2026
Open Until Filled: Yes
Special Instructions to Applicants: NOTE: If you are a veteran, disabled veteran, or spouse of a deceased veteran and would like Veteran’s Preference, we will need to see proof of status in order to grant that. Please see Veteran’s Preference section of the application for specific proof.
Applicants for this position with ASU-Beebe must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with ASU-Beebe such as H1-B, F-1 (CPT/OPT), TN or any other status.
U.S. Department of Labor
- Know Your Rights https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights-ScreenRdr.pdf
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/fmlaen.pdf (English) https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/fmlasp.pdf (Spanish)
- Employee Polygraph Protection Act https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/legacy/files/eppac.pdf
Organization
Working at Arkansas State University-Beebe
Arkansas State University-Beebe is an operationally separate, two-year institution of the Arkansas State University System. With campuses located in Beebe, Heber Springs, Searcy, and Little Rock Air Force Base, we offer associate degrees, certificates, and non-credit training for business and industry. The Beebe campus also collaborates with Arkansas State, a four-year university in Jonesboro, to offer baccalaureate and graduate degrees on the Beebe campus. Courses are also offered at additional locations within our service area, and many courses are taught in locations convenient to business and industry.