Adrian College - Instructor Operations Manager

Adrian College is a member of the Lower Cost Models Consortium (LCMC), a network of colleges and universities that share high-quality, credit-bearing online courses to expand affordable degree access for students nationwide. Adrian College partners with Rize Education, which provides licensing, technology, and administrative support for participating institutions' course-sharing activities. As an LCMC Teaching Institution, Adrian College employs the instructors who teach these shared courses and are responsible for hiring, onboarding, paying, and supporting them in accordance with our institutional standards and contractual commitments.

We are growing our instructor workforce across a growing number of programs and terms, and we need an outstanding operator to own the administrative backbone of that workforce, including staffing, onboarding, payroll, compliance, and day-to-day instructor support.

The Instructor Operations Manager serves as the institution's primary point of contact for remote instructors and oversees the day-to-day operations that support hiring, onboarding, employment, and ongoing instructor success. You will make sure every confirmed course section is staffed with a qualified, fully onboarded instructor before the term begins, and that instructors have a single, reliable point of contact for payroll, employment, and logistics questions throughout the term.

You'll work across HR, payroll, compliance, and academic affairs to manage the remote instructor employment lifecycle, from recruitment support and onboarding through payroll, record-keeping, and term-to-term renewals. You'll also serve as the institution's operational liaison to Rize, coordinating with Rize's Instructor Success team to keep staffing, onboarding, and compliance activities on track each term.

This role partners closely with HR, payroll, academic department chairs, Program Liaisons, and the institution's academic decision-maker for instructional quality concerns. Although this role coordinates with Rize, the Manager is employed, supervised, directed, evaluated, and compensated solely by Adrian and has no reporting relationship to Rize or the LCMC.

We're looking for a highly organized, detail-oriented operator who takes pride in exceptional execution and genuinely enjoys being the person instructors can count on. You're comfortable owning a process end to end, tracking dozens of moving pieces across multiple terms and programs without letting anything slip.

You're an empathetic communicator who can explain payroll, compliance, and onboarding requirements clearly to instructors who may not be familiar with institutional HR processes, while also building trusted, professional relationships with them. You're equally comfortable working within institutional systems (HR, payroll, compliance) and coordinating with consortium partners on shared deadlines and requirements.

You bring a low-ego, service-oriented mindset, hold yourself to a high standard of accuracy and follow-through, and are motivated by building systems that allow instructors and the institution to succeed at scale.

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