Instructor, Reading, Writing, and English

Position: Instructor, Reading, Writing, and English (FT)

Join our Team at Portland Community College

Portland Community College is the largest post‑secondary institution in Oregon and 19th largest in the nation, serving approximately 80,000 full‑ and part‑time students. PCC, which is roughly the size of Rhode Island, has four comprehensive campuses, five workforce training and education centers, and 200 community locations in the Portland metropolitan area. Wherever you're coming from and wherever you're going in life, Portland Community College has the classes and programs to get you there.

Our unique role is to make high‑quality education accessible to everyone, creating opportunities for our students and contributing to the economic development of our community.

Portland Community College embraces equity and inclusion as a priority. We are committed to building a community with a variety of backgrounds, skills, views, and life experiences. The more we value equity and inclusion, the more we will add value to the work we do and how we serve our students, engage with each other, and the Oregon Community that we serve.

Creating a culture that honors equity and inclusion is our objective and the smart path forward.

Portland Community College will ensure that applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for the hiring process are provided for. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact the PCC Talent Acquisition Team at pccjobs.

Please Note: PCC currently limits employment to individuals residing in Oregon and Washington.

Our Program and Who We Are Looking For

Portland Community College seeks applicants for a full‑time tenure‑track position in our Reading, Writing, and English Program. We seek faculty applicants whose lived experiences, community connections, and scholarly credentials prepare them to provide transformational education for our students and our region.

Successful candidates will teach the majority of their courses in the first‑year writing program where we have particular interest in hiring faculty with experience, expertise, and passion in one or more of the following specialties:

• Linguistic diversity, antiracist composition, rhetorical sovereignty, multilingual writers

• Reflective writing, teaching for transfer, metacognition

Successful candidates can expect to teach approximately 9 courses per year (on PCC’s quarter system), based at one of PCC’s four campuses. PCC’s courses are offered in a variety of modalities. Successful candidates should expect to teach a majority of their course load fully in‑person. Learn more about PCC’s system, campuses, student demographics:
About PCC.

Please submit a cover letter, a CV, and a response to the supplemental question. In your cover letter, please describe how you meet the minimum qualifications and the success criteria listed below.

Minimum Qualifications

To be considered, your application must demonstrate these minimum qualifications. (Experience is calculated based on the start and end dates you provide multiplied by the number of hours per week worked).

For ENG and WR courses:

• Education:
  
  MFA, MA or PhD in Rhetoric/Composition, English, or Literature, OR an MA or PhD in an interdisciplinary field with a minimum of 30 graduate quarter credit‑hours in one or a combination of Rhetoric and Composition, English, or Literature.

• Experience:
  
  Have taught at least four college‑level composition classes or have equivalent college classroom experience through a mentoring or internship program.

Success Criteria

In addition, the ideal candidate will have ….

• Disciplinary knowledge in the field of Rhetoric & Composition

• A teaching practice that acknowledges linguistic diversity, antiracist composition, rhetorical sovereignty, multilingual writers

• Demonstrated skill at culturally responsive education

• Experience working with students who have historically been excluded or underserved by higher education

• Demonstrated success with peer collaboration and leadership

Campus location will be determined at time of hire.

Note:

As part of your application to be considered for this Instructor position, we will ask you to respond to this important question:

In what ways do, or would, your lived experiences shape your…