Dual Enrollment Adjunct Instructor

Title: Dual Enrollment Adjunct Instructor

Agency: Rappahannock Community College

Location: Gloucester - 073

FLSA: Exempt

Hiring Range: Commensurate with education and experience.

Full Time or Part Time: Part Time

Rappahannock Community College (RCC), founded in 1970, provides high-quality educational and training opportunities throughout a 12-county service region an hour east of Richmond on the beautiful western shore of the Chesapeake Bay with access to fresh local seafood and water activities. RCC delivers accessible and affordable educational opportunities, including for-credit transfer and career technical programs, robust distance education coursework, quality dual enrollment courses, and award-winning workforce training and credentialing programs.

RCC’s annualized enrollment of 3,700 credit students in  and almost 800 workforce and community development students are supported by almost 140 full-time employees and over 200 part-time/adjunct employees across two main campuses and four satellite sites.

RCC seeks applicants for Dual Enrollment Adjunct Instructor positions. These are part-time positions teaching college courses in the high school, covering both high school and college content at a rigorous level, allowing students to earn high school and college credit. Dual enrollment instructors are expected to conform to all college policies and procedures pertaining to the dual enrollment courses they teach.

All dual enrollment courses shall be equivalent to the pedagogical, theoretical, and philosophical orientation of the College’s department and contain the same student learning outcomes, components of the syllabi, level and rigor of content, assessment and evaluation of student learning outcomes and instructional effectiveness. Dual enrollment instructors teaching dual enrollment courses will be evaluated in accordance with the College's adjunct faculty evaluation process.

The College desires candidates with a commitment to the community college mission and experience working in a varied student population, including adult learners and at-risk students. The successful candidate will be committed to academic excellence, continuous improvement through professional development, assessment, program and course development, and creating a collegial environment of civility, collaboration and open communication. The college strives for a faculty of content experts who are also knowledgeable about best practices, innovative strategies, and instructional technologies that support teaching and learning.

• Master's degree in content area or Master's degree with 18 graduate semester hours in content area for all transfer courses.
• Faculty in specialized professional or technical associate in applied sciences disciplines require a Bachelors degree in the teaching field or an Associate's degree in the teaching field with demonstrated competency in the teaching field and 2 years of related occupational experience.
• Employment in local school system required.

• Teaching experience in discipline.