Automotive Services Technology Instructor [Full-Time Faculty] - Clackamas Community College

Description:

Are you passionate about vehicle maintenance and interested in teaching a new generation of automotive technicians?   Can you create and maintain a welcoming and supportive environment with students of diverse, multicultural, socioeconomic and academic backgrounds? Are you interested in building relationships with industry and community partners?  If these questions resonate with you, then, we invite you to consider joining our Automotive Service Technology team.  We value collaboration and are dedicated to guiding students towards the achievement of their academic and career goals.

Clackamas Community College (CCC) at the Oregon City, Oregon campus seek to hire a full-time permanent position in our Automotive Service Technology department starting in fall 2024. We are interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and candidates that may be from a less traditional background. We welcome applicants who bring a diversity of identity, culture, experience, perspective, and thought. If you are an experienced technician and have an interest in sharing your unique skills to help train the next generation of automotive technicians, we encourage you to apply.

Clackamas Community College has a variety of professional development opportunities that provide support to faculty to develop and enhance their teaching, learning and assessment practices.  Through our Center for Teaching and Learning, faculty have an opportunity to participate in a variety of faculty development programs that include our First Year Faculty Experience (FYFE), which is a year-long learning, training and community-building program for all new full-time faculty members at Clackamas Community College.  

CCC is committed to continuous improvement and innovation in support of student-centered teaching and learning. We are committed to understanding and dismantling systems of oppression and to co-creating a more equitable educational system that in turn fosters a more equitable society. We strive to be a student-ready institution that supports and partners with students to promote discovery and growth. We work to mobilize community-wide awareness and action related to College strategic priorities and seeks to build relationships in support of community well-being. At CCC, individuals are celebrated for their experience and expertise, validated for their unique perspectives, and engaged in ways that reflect their needs and interests. To learn more about CCC visit Leadership, Vision and Initiatives.

College and Division:

The Automotive Service Technology Department resides in the Technology Applied Science and Public Services Division.   As a division, we are one of four Instructional and Student Support divisions at CCC.  The four divisions are:  Academic Foundations and Connections (AFAC), Arts and Sciences (A &S), Institutional Effectiveness and Planning (IEP) and Technology, Applied Science and Public Services (TAPS).  The Technology Applied Science and Public Services Division includes ten departments: Customized Training and Development Services, Small Business Development Center, Workforce Development Services, Community Education, TAPS Grants & Career Pathways, Automotive & Welding Technology, Industrial Technology, Education, Early Childhood Education, Human Services & Criminal Justice, Health Sciences and Apprenticeship, Wildland Fire, Emergency Management & Geographic Information System.

Automotive Service Technology Department:

The Automotive Service Technology Department is an Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) accredited program that provides hands-on instruction and training from faculty members with years of experience in the field. Students learn how to repair and maintain passenger cars and light trucks, participate in cooperative work experience opportunities, and attain the skills lead to successful employment in the automotive industry.

A successful candidate will be a collaborative, innovative, and participatory faculty member with an expertise in the automotive industry who is excited to teach, support and mentor students.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Instructors shall be responsible for imparting knowledge and developing skills through the instructional process under the direction of the department, the division and the College Administration. In carrying out their responsibilities, instructors shall exercise independent judgment based on adequate knowledge of subject matter, professional goals of subjects taught, teaching strategies, interpersonal relationships, and best practices of teaching and learning. 

Instruction & Related Assignments:

• Teaches a variety of automotive technology classes (lecture and lab) to a diverse student population
• Develops and revises curricula, assessments and course materials for Automotive Service Technology courses
• Ability to operate typical automotive machinery and complete training for new equipment as necessary.
• Works any shift as is required to meet student demand. This may include mornings, afternoons, and evenings with the possibility of some weekends.
• Teaches classes as assigned, following approved course outlines
• Delivers instruction in a variety of modalities to meet program and student needs including face-to-face, remote, hybrid, and/or online
• Prepares and develops materials for assigned classes
• Posts and maintains student office hours
• Provides students with course syllabi
• Maintains records of grades and attendance; reports individual academic grades when required
• Participates in assessment activities
• Maintains work areas in a manner that meets an automotive shop standard of excellence
• Participates in professional development activities to remain current in the assigned discipline
• Acts as a liaison to industry and to local high school teachers/students.  Be involved with the college community, committee service and advisory committee meetings
• Works harmoniously and collaboratively with colleagues in an environment that promotes innovation, teaching learning, and service to a diverse student population.
• Attends and actively participates in department, division, College meetings and committees.

Teaching and Learning Values:

• Creates a learning climate of mutual respect and fairness
• Encourages creative and critical thinking
• Engages participants in an active learning process
• Facilitates learning that applies to and enriches lives
• Encourages student responsibility for learning
• Promotes learning as a lifelong process

Institutional Expectations:

• Embraces diversity and actively collaborates effectively with a variety of students, staff and the public from diverse cultural, social, economic and educational backgrounds
• Participates in recruitment and retention of students at an individual and institutional level in promotion of student success
• Embraces, understands and uses appropriate technology tools to accomplish job functions