ESL Instructor Tenure-Track

ESL Instructor (Full-time, Tenure-Track)

San Francisco Community College District

Position Number: AC00262P

Job Close Date: 11/20/2026

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Salary (Applicant View):

Initial salary placement is based on verified and accepted educational/work experience in accordance with the current City College of San Francisco Faculty Salary Schedule. The annual salary range upon entry is from $75,466 to $115,214 for 175 days of ser

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Description:

The English as a Second Language Department at City College of San Francisco serves over 20,000 enrollments annually, making it one of the largest ESL programs in the California community college system. The department offers instruction at three campus locations in addition to a fully online program. Our curriculum spans absolute beginner/literacy level through advanced composition. ESL faculty serve students from a wide range of language, educational, and cultural backgrounds - most of whom are immigrants, refugees, and multilingual adults balancing coursework with employment and family responsibilities.

The department is committed to removing barriers to language access and academic advancement, and views equitable outcomes for historically underserved and linguistically minoritized students as central to its mission. We operate through a participatory governance model, in which faculty share responsibility for curricular, programmatic, and institutional decision-making alongside their instructional duties.

The department invites applications for one tenure-track full-time faculty position. The successful applicant will deliver outstanding in-person and/or online instruction in support of student learning, as well as actively engage in departmental service, participatory decision-making, and college-wide governance structures. We seek a colleague who approaches instruction, curriculum, and governance work through an equity-minded lens, attentive to the structural barriers that immigrant and multilingual students often face in accessing higher education.

- Teach across the full ESL curriculum - literacy through advanced, credit and noncredit, all skill areas (listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar) incorporating culturally responsive, equity-minded pedagogy

- Teach vocational ESL, citizenship preparation, academic composition, digital literacy, and other areas as needed

- Deliver quality instruction across modalities, using Canvas LMS and/or Zoom

- Teach morning, afternoon, evening, and/or weekend classes at one or more sites or online. Availability to teach in-person is required.

- Develop/revise course outlines, programs, SLOs, and assessment instruments in collaboration with departmental colleagues

- Evaluate student performance per department/college standards

- Maintain regular office hours as required

- Provide informal academic advising on student language acquisition level, course sequencing and program completion

- Attend to the varied backgrounds and life circumstances of adult multilingual learners

- Participate in department meetings, flex-day activities, and professional development

- Chair/lead evaluation committees

- Serve on governance committees (curriculum, hiring, Academic Senate, etc.)

- Contribute to program review, accreditation self-study, and institutional effectiveness work, with attention to equity gaps

- Maintain accurate student records (attendance, grades, SLOs) per college policy

- Submit paperwork on time (preference forms, HR paperwork, etc.)

- Engage in ongoing development in second-language acquisition pedagogy, equity-minded practice, and institutional priorities

- Contribute to the development of colleagues and the field of TESOL by sharing best practices, presenting at conferences, writing textbooks or OER and/or publishing research

1. Demonstrated knowledge, skills, and abilities to work with community college students with disabilities, various sexual orientations, and diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds (Required).

2. Earned Master's Degree at an accredited institution in TESL, TESOL, English with a concentration in TESL, Linguistics with a concentration in TESL, Applied Linguistics with a concentration in TESL, Education with a concentration in TESL, or any foreign language with a concentration in TESL.

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Earned Master's degree…