Associate Faculty - College High School

Position: Associate Faculty - College in the High School

Big Bend Community College (BBCC), a rural college serving vibrant, culturally rich communities in the Columbia Basin of Central Washington invites applications for a College in the High School Instructor in the college's Instruction Department. This position will teach College in the High School (CiHS) classes in specific disciplines as specified by Interagency Agreements with area high schools.

To work at BBCC you will be participating in a movement. We are taking action to intentionally and fearlessly create a college where all feel they belong, all people are represented and respected for their lived experiences, and each has received the recognition and support needed to thrive. Our students, the HEART of BBCC, and our employees, the SOUL, are the reason we are deepening our commitment to this movement.
BBCC’s organizational strength is captured in our small but mighty spirit. A small college taking on BIG things to enact BIG change to lift our students and employees. We are dedicated to extending postsecondary access to all our service district members and providing an environment for all to grow personally and professionally, steered by our mission and vision.

Vision:
To become our communities’ first choice to dream, learn, and succeed.

Mission

Serve as a Bridge
Stand as a Leader
Support for Success

Our guiding principles are a call to action, establishing a standard for how we interact with each other, present BBCC in the community, serve students AND act upon areas of inequity.

Guiding Principles

Honor our Role as a Hispanic-Serving Institution
Advocate for Equity, Inclusion, & Diversity
Embrace our Workplace Norms
Innovate Proactively
Model Integrity
Educate All

If you share these values, we encourage you to come be a part of the movement happening at Big Bend Community College.


This position is open until filled. Big Bend Community College reserves the right to offer this position to a qualified candidate at any time, so a prompt response is encouraged.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepare and teach assigned CiHS courses in accordance with the Master Course Outline and in consultation with a BBCC faculty mentor.
• Utilize best practices for teaching course content, engaging and motivating students to succeed.
• Meet the class times as required and assist students as needed with questions related to the course(s) being taught.
• Provide students access to course materials and their course grades.
• Support students’ academic success by maintaining regular student hour(s).
• Foster a flexible, healthy learning environment with respect for student diversity.
• Maintain positive and effective communications with students.
• Maintain and submit grades and class rosters to college personnel when required.
• Work with faculty mentor to post syllabi to the Big Bend Portal for each course taught.
• Work with faculty mentor to provide paired syllabi and paired assessments for each CiHS class taught.
• Attend annual discipline-specific training and annual discipline-specific professional development as required by the CiHS program accreditation.
• Meet with faculty mentor during annual site visit for each CiHS class taught
• Submit CiHS program assessment data as requested by faculty mentor.
• Attend CiHS program meetings held at BBCC, including new teacher orientation.
• Assist with development, selection, and/or recommend selection of instructional materials for course(s) being taught.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree in discipline or related field or Master’s degree in Education with a bachelor’s degree in discipline or related field. Master’s degree may be in progress.
• Must be employed as a teacher at a high school within the college's service district.
• Demonstrated ability to relate to students from diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience implementing strategies to improve student success and retention.
• Experience with online learning, hybrid courses, learning management systems (LMS), video conferencing and other applications for instructional purposes such as Word, PowerPoint/Canva, and Excel.
• Bilingual Spanish/English proficiency.

This position is open until filled. Big Bend…