Job Description

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
 
As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

Job Posting Title:

CE Instructor STEPS (Hourly)

Job Description Summary:

STEPS Instructors are responsible for vocational and academic instruction in a variety of fields and topics. STEPS Instructors play a pivotal role in creating an environment where students are treated with respect, encouragement, and integrity. Instructors in this position understand that the STEPS students are adults who have a right to privacy and autonomy. Instructors set the classroom expectation as a supervisor/employee relationship. Instructors are responsible for instruction in all levels of post-secondary vocational training, literacy, basic skills, and adult secondary skills preparation including all subject areas (writing skills, social skills, interpreting literature, entry-level job skills, and mathematics).

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Instructs students in academic and vocational subjects using a variety of techniques such as phonetics, multi-sensory learning, and repetition to reinforce learning and to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Uses intake interviews, disability documentation, under the supervision of the Workforce Specialist and Coordinator to identify and implement accommodation needs.
• Provides direct and indirect instructional support to students in a positive environment.
• Employs special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
• Teaches socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques in an overall positive behavioral support system such as modeling.
• Modifies curriculum for students with disabilities based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
• Plans and conducts activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
• Establishes and enforces clear rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining an environment conducive to learning for all students.
• Meets with students to discuss progress and to determine priorities and their individualized educational needs.
• Maintains accurate and complete student records.
• Establishes clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
• Maintains professional competence by participating in staff development activities, curriculum development meetings, and other professional opportunities.

Skills

• Maintaining an established work schedule, including some evenings and weekends.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Effectively using interpersonal and written communications skills, including the use of tact, diplomacy, understanding, and valuing all contributions.

Technology Skills

• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.

Required Work Experience

• As required.

Required Education

• As required.

Special Requirements

Licenses/Certifications; Other

• Valid Texas Driver's License and reliable transportation for local Austin area travel.

Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
• Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Safety

• Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Pay Rate

This hourly rate varies depending on assignment.

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

June 17, 2023

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.

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