Portland Community College seeks applicants for two full-time permanent positions in our Adult Education Department. We seek faculty applicants whose lived experiences, community connections, and scholarly credentials prepare them to provide transformational education for our students and our region.

These positions will start in the fall of 2024 at Sylvania Campus or Rock Creek Campus. Please indicate your preferred campus in your cover letter.

Instructors are expected to:

• . Conduct office hours in person or remote for the purpose of assisting students and advising as necessary. Participate and lead in committee work
• . Use a trauma informed and culturally responsive practice as a foundation in their own teaching and in their mentoring and assessment of other faculty
• . Be familiar with Adult Learning Standards
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See the classification description for additional information: https://www.pcc.edu/instructor-qualifications/abe-ged/

These qualifications, skills and abilities are critical for success in this position.
Throughout the screening process, you will be evaluated based on the demonstration of these qualifications.

Please address each bullet point of the Success Criteria in your cover letter. Your cover letter as well as the remainder of your application will be evaluated against the Success Criteria.

Success Criteria:

• Student centered approach that celebrates diversity and promotes inclusion, development, and growth; collaborative, relational, and responsive to students, faculty, and departmental needs
• . Ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders while utilizing a trauma informed lens including confidence building, problem solving, de-escalating practices, and strength-based approaches
• . Self-directed, ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid work environment, and to prioritize competing demands
• . Attitude of continuous improvement and self-reflection, openness to professional development opportunities
• . Serves as a guide where the educator learns from the learner and participates in a two-way process with both parties having “power” and information to share
• .

PCC complies with the Oregon Veterans' Preference in Public Employment law which provides qualifying veterans and disabled veterans with preference in employment. In order to claim Veterans’ Preference in the recruitment of this position, please email PCC’s Human Resources Department at pccjobs@pcc.edu with the documentation below to verify eligibility. You may also fax the documentation to HR at 971-722-5055. Please do not send this documentation to the hiring manager directly. Please submit the following to PCC Human Resources to verify eligibility for Veterans’ Preference: 1) Veterans: DD214; 2) Disabled Veterans: DD214 and Letter from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.

Minimum Qualifications

To be considered, your application must demonstrate these minimum qualifications. (Experience is calculated based on the start and end dates you provide multiplied by the number of hours per week worked).

• d Two years experience teaching basic skills (reading, writing, and/or math) to undereducated, at-risk, and multi-cultural adult or high-school population
• s Have basic computer literacy skill
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Preferred Qualifications

• n C-Best or an equivalent exam in Reading, Writing, and Mat
• h Experience with Oregon Adult Basic Skills Learning Standards or other learning standards
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PCC offers a comprehensive benefit package designed to provide employees and their families, including domestic partners, with access to a broad range of benefit options. Includes Health, Dental, and Vision options, Group Life, Long-term Disability, Long-term Care, and Auto and Home Insurance programs.

• ) 21 hours of additional personal leave per yea
• r 4 paid holidays (which occur during the term you are teaching
• )

View a complete list of PCC benefits.

Please note that Portland Community College is not currently able to provide visa (e.g. H1-B Visa) sponsorship for potential employees.

Instructors shall have earned required academic credentials at a regionally accredited US institution or a foreign institution having the equivalent of regional accreditation.

Instructors with credentials from other countries will have their transcripts evaluated by agencies that have good standing with the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services to establish fulfillment of this standard. (for more information see http://www.pcc.edu/hr/employment/faculty-information.html)

For more information on PCC's General Instructor Qualifications Policy I301 visit:
http://catalog.pcc.edu/handbook/i301-instructorqualifications/ .