Wildland Fire Instructor (Reedley College) Part-Time Faculty Pool

About the Role

The ideal candidate will share Reedley College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. RC enrolls over 10,000 students: 71% Latinx, 1% Filipino, 3% Asian, 2% African American, 19% White, and 2% multiracial. As a Hispanic-Serving Institution, the College has a responsibility to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community. The successful candidate will join a department dedicated to curriculum responsive to the students it serves.

Responsibilities

• Maintain standards of professional conduct, ethics, and currency in teaching Wildland Fire.
• Teach classes in Introduction to Wildland Fire, Advanced Wildland Fire, Fire Ecology, Fuels Management, and Chainsaw Operation.
• Use a variety of pedagogies and integrate instructional delivery systems, including innovative and creative uses of technology for face-to-face, online, and/or hybrid formats.
• Communicate effectively with students.
• Use effective teaching methods appropriate to the subject matter, adhering to institutionally approved curriculum course outlines of record.
• Evaluate student progress through tests, examinations, written assignments, and oral responses in keeping with course objectives.
• Provide course syllabi to students.
• Maintain classroom records in accordance with District Policy.
• Turn in all required student grading and evaluation reports in a timely manner.
• Fulfill all duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122.
• Teach in various instructional settings and times, including evenings, weekends, online, off-campus, and large group instruction as needed.

Requirements

• Any bachelor’s degree or higher AND two years of directly related experience; OR
• Any associate degree AND six years of directly related experience; OR
• A valid California Community College Credential; OR
• The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency).

All candidates must have evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, as these factors relate to the need for equity-minded practice within the classroom.

Desirable Qualifications

• Professional competency by successfully teaching and working in Wildland Fire.
• Ability to issue National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) certificates.
• Ability to use current educational technology.
• Related work and professional experience.
• Experience in computer-assisted instruction and other instructional technologies.
• Ability to communicate effectively (oral and written) and maintain effective working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and administration.
• Ability to develop new and current curriculum and focus on student learning outcomes to improve student learning.
• Experience working with students of various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Recent experience working with African American, Latinx, Native American, and other racially minoritized students in the classroom and an understanding of how historical patterns of exclusion shape participation and outcomes.
• Willingness to examine and remediate instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students.
• Experience and skill in addressing issues of equity in the classroom.
• Potential for contribution to institutional vitality and growth.
• Knowledge of the community college and its mission and goals.

Pay

Starting rates are $45.49 – $61.78 for lecture and $38.67 – $52.55 for lab.

Benefits

Sick leave accrual is based on assignment hours.

This is a part-time position. Open until filled. Start dates may vary.