Adjunct Faculty - History-Alexandria
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate, navigation, EEO, etc. Must not invent or summarize away detail. Must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Must only include sections when posting has real specific content.
Let's parse the posting.
Key info:
- Working Title: Adjunct Faculty - History-Alexandria (but we don't repeat title)
- Role Title, Role Code, FLSA Exempt, Pay Band 00, Position Number 280A2023, Agency Northern VA Community College, Division NV280-Provost Alexandria, Work Location Alexandria - 510
- Hiring Range: Flat rate paid per credit hour based on the assigned rank: Assistant Instructor ($819), Instructor ($935), Assistant Professor ($1,047), Associate Professor ($1,160), and Professor ($1,249).
- Emergency/Essential Personnel No
- EEO Category I-Faculty
- Full Time or Part Time: Part Time
- Telework options: No (subject to change)
- Bilingual/multilingual skill requirement or preference? Not specified? It says "Does this position have a bilingual or multilingual skill requirement or preference?" No answer given? Actually line: "Does this position have a bilingual or multilingual skill requirement or preference?" then blank? Probably not specified. We should not include if not specified.
- Work Schedule: Varies according to class schedules
- Sensitive Position: No
- Job Description: Adjunct faculty members are responsible for effectively planning and teaching courses in the designated discipline/field of study to students from a variety of academic backgrounds and experiences. Teaching may include a variety of formats: face to face, remote, and online. Adjunct faculty are employed to teach up to 12 credit hours in the fall and spring semester and/or up to 8 credit hours during summer session. Teaching load is based on student enrollment and staffing needs. The adjunct faculty contract contains no expectation or guarantee of continued employment. Must reside in the (DC, VA, MD) DMV area.
- Duties And Tasks: Teach specific classes in the designated discipline. Develop course syllabi and instructional materials. Maintain records, assign grades, and assess student progress. Adhere to policies, procedures, and regulations of NOVA and the VCCS. Maintain current competence in the particular discipline or field of specialization.
- Essential Functions: As a part of the primary responsibility to provide quality instruction, the College expects each faculty member to meet assigned classes regularly; submit required records and reports routinely; teach the prescribed courses of study with the established texts; and adhere to the statement on professional ethics in accordance with College policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Special Assignments: May be required to perform other duties as assigned. May be required to assist the agency or state government generally in the event of an emergency declaration by the Governor.
- KSA's/Required Qualifications: KSA’s Ability to work with a diverse student population Excellent interpersonal skills Exellent analytical skills Excellent oral/written communication skills Ability to teach during the day, evening or weekend or combination of all Ability to use instructional technology
- Required Qualifications: Master’s degree or higher in the teaching field or master’s degree with at least 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching field. Qualifying degrees and coursework must be awarded by and/or completed with a regionally accredited institution.
- Additional Considerations: Prior experience teaching in higher education Experience teaching in classroom, hybrid, and online formats. Demonstrated commitment to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive working and learning environment. Experience teaching students from diverse language backgrounds and varying levels of proficiency.
- Operation of a State Vehicle: No
- Supervises Employees: No
- Required Travel: n/a
- Posting Number: ADJ_3639P (metadata, drop)
- Recruitment Type: General Public - G
- Number of Vacancies: varies depending on classes
- Position End Date (if temporary): (blank)
- Job Open Date: 09/25/2026
- Job Close Date: 10/31/2026
- Open Until Filled: (not indicated)
- Agency Website: https://www.nvcc.edu/
- Contact Name Email Phone Number: (blank)
- Special Instructions to Applicants: Adjunct postings are pool postings, meaning that when there is a need, the divisions pull from the applicants that have applied to this position. Teaching load is based upon student enrollment and staffing needs. The adjunct faculty appointment contains no guarantee of continued employment. Must reside in the (DC, VA, MD) DMV area.
- Additional Information: description of NOVA, benefits package etc.
- Benefits: NOVA offers eligible employees a benefits package that includes a comprehensive health and dental insurance program, generous paid leave, deferred compensation plans, paid parental leave, state employee discounts, and a solid and secure retirement program. We strive to ensure our employees have the tools and development opportunities to support and promote NOVA’s mission.
- Also mention security reports etc but those are boilerplate? Might be considered extra but we can include as part of Additional Information? The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The benefits description is substantive; we can keep. The security reports line maybe considered boilerplate? It's about security of students etc. Might be considered informational but not required. However it's not EEO etc. Might keep but could be considered generic. Safer to keep only substantive benefits and maybe mention NOVA description.
- Background Check Statement Disclaimer: (boilerplate legal) remove.
- EEO Statement: remove.
- ADA Statement: remove.
- E-Verify Statement: remove.
- Quicklink for Posting: remove.
We need to decide sections.
We have:
- About the role: could include general description, work location, part-time, telework, schedule varies, etc.
- Responsibilities: duties and tasks, essential functions, special assignments.
- Requirements: maybe required qualifications, KSA's? Actually KSA's are skills/abilities. Could be under Skills.
- Qualifications: required qualifications, additional considerations.
- Skills: KSA's (ability to work with diverse student population, excellent interpersonal skills, etc.)
- Benefits: benefits package.
- Pay: hiring range per credit hour.
- Schedule: work schedule varies according to class schedules.
We must not create sections with filler. Ensure each section has real content.
Let's extract content.
About the role: Could include: Part-time adjunct faculty position at Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria campus. Work location: Alexandria - 510. Must reside in DC, VA, MD DMV area. No telework options. Work schedule varies according to class schedules. Position is part-time, no guarantee of continued employment. (Also mention that it's a pool posting). That seems substantive.
Responsibilities: Duties and tasks list, essential functions, special assignments.
We can combine duties and tasks + essential functions + special assignments into responsibilities.
Requirements: Could be "Must reside in DMV area" but that's already in about. Maybe we separate required qualifications under Qualifications.
Qualifications: Required qualifications (Master's degree or higher in teaching field or master's with 18 graduate hours). Additional considerations (prior experience teaching in higher education, experience teaching classroom/hybrid/online, commitment to DEI, experience teaching diverse language backgrounds). Also maybe "Must reside in DMV area" but that's not a qualification per se but a requirement. Could be under Requirements.
Skills: KSA's list.
Benefits: Benefits package description.
Pay: Hiring range per credit hour.
Schedule: Work schedule varies according to class schedules.
We must not repeat job title. Use for each section heading.
We must use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include each bullet point exactly as given, not paraphrase? We can keep the meaning but not lose detail. Probably okay to keep as is.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc.
Let's craft.
First, About the role: prose paragraph(s). Could include multiple
elements.
We need to include: Part-time adjunct faculty position at Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria campus. Work location: Alexandria - 510. Must reside in DC, VA, MD DMV area. No telework options. Work schedule varies according to class schedules. Position is part-time, no guarantee of continued employment. Adjunct faculty are employed to teach up to 12 credit hours in fall/spring and/or up to 8 credit hours during summer session. Teaching load based on enrollment and staffing needs. The adjunct faculty contract contains no expectation or guarantee of continued employment. Also mention that it's a pool posting: divisions pull from applicants when need.
We need to ensure we don't lose any detail: The posting says "Adjunct faculty members are responsible for effectively planning and teaching courses in the designated discipline/field of study to students from a variety of academic backgrounds and experiences. Teaching may include a variety of formats: face to face, remote, and online." That's more about responsibilities, but could be in About the role as general description. However we have a Responsibilities section for duties. Might be okay to put that in About the role as general description, but we must not duplicate. Let's think: The posting includes a "General Description" before Duties And Tasks. That description is: "Adjunct faculty members are responsible for effectively planning and teaching courses in the designated discipline/field of study to students from a variety of academic backgrounds and experiences. Teaching may include a variety of formats: face to face, remote, and online. Adjunct faculty are employed to teach up to 12 credit hours in the fall and spring semester and/or up to 8 credit hours during summer session. Teaching load is based on student enrollment and staffing needs. The adjunct faculty contract contains no expectation or guarantee of continued employment. Must reside in the (DC, VA, MD) DMV area."
That is substantive and could go under About the role (or Responsibilities). Since we have a Responsibilities section for duties, we could put the general description there as part of responsibilities. But the instruction: Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have both About the role and Responsibilities. About the role could contain the general description and maybe location, part-time, etc. Responsibilities could contain the specific duties list.
Let's extract the general description exactly: "Adjunct faculty members are responsible for effectively planning and teaching courses in the designated discipline/field of study to students from a variety of academic backgrounds and experiences. Teaching may include a variety of formats: face to face, remote, and online. Adjunct faculty are employed to teach up to 12 credit hours in the fall and spring semester and/or up to 8 credit hours during summer session. Teaching load is based on student enrollment and staffing needs. The adjunct faculty contract contains no expectation or guarantee of continued employment. Must reside in the (DC, VA, MD) DMV area."
We'll keep that as a
under About the role.
Then we can add location and other details maybe as another
.
But we must not duplicate the "Must reside in the (DC, VA, MD) DMV area." It appears also later in Special Instructions. We'll include it once.
Now Responsibilities: list of duties and tasks, essential functions, special assignments.
Duties And Tasks list:
- Teach specific classes in the designated discipline.
- Develop course syllabi and instructional materials.
- Maintain records, assign grades, and assess student progress.
- Adhere to policies, procedures, and regulations of NOVA and the VCCS.
- Maintain current competence in
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include each bullet point exactly as given, not paraphrase? We can keep the meaning but not lose detail. Probably okay to keep as is. We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Let's craft. First, About the role: prose paragraph(s). Could include multiple
elements. We need to include: Part-time adjunct faculty position at Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria campus. Work location: Alexandria - 510. Must reside in DC, VA, MD DMV area. No telework options. Work schedule varies according to class schedules. Position is part-time, no guarantee of continued employment. Adjunct faculty are employed to teach up to 12 credit hours in fall/spring and/or up to 8 credit hours during summer session. Teaching load based on enrollment and staffing needs. The adjunct faculty contract contains no expectation or guarantee of continued employment. Also mention that it's a pool posting: divisions pull from applicants when need. We need to ensure we don't lose any detail: The posting says "Adjunct faculty members are responsible for effectively planning and teaching courses in the designated discipline/field of study to students from a variety of academic backgrounds and experiences. Teaching may include a variety of formats: face to face, remote, and online." That's more about responsibilities, but could be in About the role as general description. However we have a Responsibilities section for duties. Might be okay to put that in About the role as general description, but we must not duplicate. Let's think: The posting includes a "General Description" before Duties And Tasks. That description is: "Adjunct faculty members are responsible for effectively planning and teaching courses in the designated discipline/field of study to students from a variety of academic backgrounds and experiences. Teaching may include a variety of formats: face to face, remote, and online. Adjunct faculty are employed to teach up to 12 credit hours in the fall and spring semester and/or up to 8 credit hours during summer session. Teaching load is based on student enrollment and staffing needs. The adjunct faculty contract contains no expectation or guarantee of continued employment. Must reside in the (DC, VA, MD) DMV area." That is substantive and could go under About the role (or Responsibilities). Since we have a Responsibilities section for duties, we could put the general description there as part of responsibilities. But the instruction: Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have both About the role and Responsibilities. About the role could contain the general description and maybe location, part-time, etc. Responsibilities could contain the specific duties list. Let's extract the general description exactly: "Adjunct faculty members are responsible for effectively planning and teaching courses in the designated discipline/field of study to students from a variety of academic backgrounds and experiences. Teaching may include a variety of formats: face to face, remote, and online. Adjunct faculty are employed to teach up to 12 credit hours in the fall and spring semester and/or up to 8 credit hours during summer session. Teaching load is based on student enrollment and staffing needs. The adjunct faculty contract contains no expectation or guarantee of continued employment. Must reside in the (DC, VA, MD) DMV area." We'll keep that as a
under About the role. Then we can add location and other details maybe as another
. But we must not duplicate the "Must reside in the (DC, VA, MD) DMV area." It appears also later in Special Instructions. We'll include it once. Now Responsibilities: list of duties and tasks, essential functions, special assignments. Duties And Tasks list: - Teach specific classes in the designated discipline. - Develop course syllabi and instructional materials. - Maintain records, assign grades, and assess student progress. - Adhere to policies, procedures, and regulations of NOVA and the VCCS. - Maintain current competence in