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The Design Thinking and Innovation Lab Assistant will provide support to course lectures and interactive design learning activities in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship cornerstone course, Design Thinking and Innovative Solutions. Responsibilities include developing and supporting both classroom and experiential activities focused on teaching the fundamental principles of innovation and human centered design. Course model involves two weekly 75 – 100 minute classroom sessions per section. Learning activities will be taught within the established behavioral outcomes of the course and delivered to both large and small groups of undergraduate students working on applied design projects on and around the Loyola University Maryland campus. The types of activities may include but are not limited to storytelling and the i6 and IDEO concepts of brainstorming, team building, creativity, feedback, personal and group presentations, user interviews, iteration, co-creation, gap analysis, and implementation.

Competitive applicants should have a Bachelor’s degree and formal academic or professional training in the concepts of design thinking, innovation or user centered design.

Master’s degree or previous teaching, coaching or professional experience in a for-profit or socially mined start-up or innovation center of an existing company.

Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, Loyola inspires students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world. Loyola’s beautiful, historic Evergreen campus is located in Baltimore, and its graduate centers are in Timonium and Columbia. Loyola enrolls 4,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students across the Sellinger School of Business and Management, the School of Education, and Loyola College of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1852, Loyola is one of 27 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States and the first to bear the name of Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.

Loyola University Maryland strongly values the benefits that diversity brings to the workplace. In accord with its Ignatian values, the University is committed to creating and promoting a community that recognizes the inherent value and dignity of each person. Loyola University Maryland does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, or any other legally protected classification. The University recruits, hires, and promotes in accord with this policy and its Core Values.

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