Title: Reading Instructor
Salary Range: $47,000.00. Salary compensatory upon experience and education
Contract Term Length: 10 Months
Standard Hours: 37.50
Work Location: Hybrid
FLSA Status: Exempt
College: Jefferson Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Jefferson Community College
Department: Humanities
Total Rewards
Jefferson Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:
- Exceptional health care, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
- Tuition discounts and waivers
- 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
- Vacation/Sick Time
- Work-Life Balance
- 9.5 Paid Holidays
- 2 Weeks of Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
- Employee Assistance Program
Job Summary
The Humanities Department of Jefferson Community and Technical College has an anticipated opening for a full-time Reading Instructor.
Job Duties:
This position will primarily be responsible for instruction in Reading, instruction in the First Year Experience course when needed, maintaining office hours for mentoring and coaching students, success and retention activities, and utilization of Blackboard for communication and feedback. This position may teach on multiple JCTC campuses.
Other duties include but are not limited to:
• Academic advising
• Course and curriculum development
• Internal and external community service
• Educational leadership and professional development.
Minimum Qualifications:
Master's in Reading and/or Adult Literacy, or a Master’s degree in a related field with 18 graduate hours in Reading/Adult Literacy instruction.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in, and understanding of the importance of, working with students from diverse backgrounds required. Teaching experience at the college level preferred. This position requires the ability to work in a culturally diverse environment, which consist of frequent contact with a diverse constituency of students, faculty, staff, and the public. The preferred candidates should also have experience and sensitivity working with colleagues and students from diverse backgrounds and a commitment to fostering an inclusive work and learning environment in which students from a variety of backgrounds, cultures, and personal experiences are welcomed and can thrive.
Additional Skills Requested:
This position requires the ability to work in a culturally diverse environment, which consists of frequent contact with a diverse constituency of students, faculty, staff, and the public. Candidates who have demonstrated a commitment to working with underrepresented minority students through teaching, mentoring, or administration are especially encouraged to apply. Candidates who have experience with intersectional, inclusive instruction and with a demonstrated ability to incorporate diverse perspectives into teaching and student engagement are encouraged to identify those experiences in the application materials. Jefferson Community and Technical College is working to build a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working.
