To fully support the mission of Northeast Iowa Community College through the functions of teaching, scholarship, and service. To provide effective instruction to ensure academic programming attains student learning outcomes and prepares students for successful transition into the workforce or transfer to a post-secondary institution. To carry out assigned responsibilities to ensure academic programs are sustainable and aligned with accreditation standards.

The successful candidate will have a master’s degree in English, Fine Arts, Literature, Communications. Public Speaking, or a master’s degree with a combination of these qualifying fields that specifically include a minimum of six graduate credit hours in English, Fine Arts, Literature, Communications, Public Speaking, and 12 graduate credit hours in one or more areas of Creative Writing, Technical Writing, Journalism, Mass Media, English Education, Drama, Speech, Theatre, Rhetoric, and/or Linguistics.

Primary courses assigned will be scheduled onsite face-to-face at the NICC Calmar Campus and/or at area high schools and NICC Centers and online. Courses assigned may include: Composition I and II, Public Speaking, Introduction to Literature, Multicultural Literature, American Literature, Workplace Communications, and/or other English and Communications courses as assigned.

Teaching is a core activity of the College and all faculty members are expected to achieve excellence in this role. Teaching includes not only traditional classroom, laboratory and studio instruction, but may also include service-learning courses, evolving forms of technology-enhanced instruction such as hybrid, online, distance learning courses, competency based learning, and other non-classroom instruction such as the supervision of interns/co-op students and clinical students. Faculty members are expected to engage in activities at the department level that contribute to meeting the mission of the College. Faculty members are expected to contribute their disciplinary expertise through participation in internal and external community organizations relevant to their discipline of study.