What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chemistry Adjunct position at Olympic College?
Chemistry Adjunct
The Olympic College seeks to recruit engaging instructors who have experience successfully integrating students from varied age, cultural, racial, socio-economic, and other diverse backgrounds in the classroom.
Teaching college-level courses by the college catalog, schedule of classes, course outlines, course syllabi, and any departmental guidelines. Providing quality teaching including related preparation and grading. Maintaining and providing accurate and complete course and student records in a professional and timely manner. May include evening instruction. Maintaining clear and punctual communication with students, faculty, and staff. Performing other related duties as required and/or assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
Desired Qualifications:
Impart excitement and enthusiasm towards course content and the educational experience.
Utilize a variety of alternative teaching methods and modalities to engage and meet the educational needs of diverse student populations, including the use of technology in instruction to facilitate student success.
Incorporate the use of technology (i.e. Learning Management Systems such as Canvas and/or Web-Enhanced) to support instruction.
Demonstrate a commitment to teaching diverse students with various education, age, and language backgrounds.
Demonstrate an appreciation of diversity and the benefits of a commitment to cultural awareness and sensitivity in the workplace.
Foster a climate of multicultural understanding and appreciation.
Demonstrate success working with individuals and groups representing a wide range of diverse cultural, geographic, socio-economic, racial, and other backgrounds as well as military veterans.
Demonstrate an understanding of accessibility and universal design and provide special accommodations via course materials and classroom activities as needed.
Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills.
Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate and build rapport with colleagues, staff, and students as part of an educational team.
Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to the Olympic College mission, diversity, and a learning-centered climate.
Demonstrate ethics, integrity, and sound professional judgment.
This is an adjunct faculty position contracted on a quarterly basis.
A collective bargaining agreement exists, and this position is covered by the Association for Higher Education (AHE).
Flexibility is required to meet the needs of the department.
Evening and/or weekend classes, instruction at satellite Olympic College campuses, and off-campus assignments including travel to clinical sites may be a part of the instructional load.
Olympic College has joined Achieving the Dream (ATD), a comprehensive reform movement of more than 220 community colleges, each committed to helping students achieve their college and career goals.
The colleges have a laser focus on equity, closing achievement gaps, and increasing graduation rates with an emphasis on low-income students, first-generation students, and students of color, groups that have been traditionally underserved at all colleges.
Olympic College provides equal opportunity in education and employment and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, creed, religion, or status as a veteran of war.
The Olympic College seeks to recruit engaging instructors who have experience successfully integrating students from varied age, cultural, racial, socio-economic, and other diverse backgrounds in the classroom.
Teaching college-level courses by the college catalog, schedule of classes, course outlines, course syllabi, and any departmental guidelines. Providing quality teaching including related preparation and grading. Maintaining and providing accurate and complete course and student records in a professional and timely manner. May include evening instruction. Maintaining clear and punctual communication with students, faculty, and staff. Performing other related duties as required and/or assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, or Chemical Engineering from a nationally accredited institution
- Basic Computer skills, including Microsoft Office applications
Desired Qualifications:
- Successful teaching experience in Chemistry at a college level
Impart excitement and enthusiasm towards course content and the educational experience.
Utilize a variety of alternative teaching methods and modalities to engage and meet the educational needs of diverse student populations, including the use of technology in instruction to facilitate student success.
Incorporate the use of technology (i.e. Learning Management Systems such as Canvas and/or Web-Enhanced) to support instruction.
Demonstrate a commitment to teaching diverse students with various education, age, and language backgrounds.
Demonstrate an appreciation of diversity and the benefits of a commitment to cultural awareness and sensitivity in the workplace.
Foster a climate of multicultural understanding and appreciation.
Demonstrate success working with individuals and groups representing a wide range of diverse cultural, geographic, socio-economic, racial, and other backgrounds as well as military veterans.
Demonstrate an understanding of accessibility and universal design and provide special accommodations via course materials and classroom activities as needed.
Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills.
Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate and build rapport with colleagues, staff, and students as part of an educational team.
Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to the Olympic College mission, diversity, and a learning-centered climate.
Demonstrate ethics, integrity, and sound professional judgment.
This is an adjunct faculty position contracted on a quarterly basis.
A collective bargaining agreement exists, and this position is covered by the Association for Higher Education (AHE).
Flexibility is required to meet the needs of the department.
Evening and/or weekend classes, instruction at satellite Olympic College campuses, and off-campus assignments including travel to clinical sites may be a part of the instructional load.
Olympic College has joined Achieving the Dream (ATD), a comprehensive reform movement of more than 220 community colleges, each committed to helping students achieve their college and career goals.
The colleges have a laser focus on equity, closing achievement gaps, and increasing graduation rates with an emphasis on low-income students, first-generation students, and students of color, groups that have been traditionally underserved at all colleges.
Olympic College provides equal opportunity in education and employment and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, creed, religion, or status as a veteran of war.
