Part Time - Studio Arts Instructor

About the job

Essential Duties Summary

Basic Function:

• Instruct classes in studio arts media such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics. Position includes oversight of one or more of the specializations of studio arts above, including maintaining and ordering instructional supplies.

Essential Duties Summary:

• Demonstrate sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.

Required Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS: The minimum qualifications are

• Master’s Degree in Art or Fine Arts OR

• The equivalent OR

• Human Resources does not determine equivalency. Applicants who do not meet the minimum qualifications listed above and wish to request equivalency must submit a completed Equivalency Application YCCD’s Equivalency Application Process

• Possess a California Community College life credential in the subject matter area of Art or Fine Arts.

Desired/Preferred Qualifications

EXPERIENCE: Preference may be given to candidates with life or teaching which would demonstrate the clear ability to:

• Teach all levels of ceramics from beginning to advanced

• Wet slab, leather hard, and coil method projects

• High fired gas and kiln maintenance, loading/firing, Raku firing, and safety for students

• Wheel throwing projects suitable for beginning to advanced students

• Art studio maintenance and ordering of art supplies

Physical Demands

Physical Demands:

• Comfortable working at heights above six feet, including walking on high cat walk spaces above the auditorium

• Bending, stooping, kneeling, & crawling

• Pushing, pulling, guiding materials

• Stand, walk on unstable surface

• Lifting greater than 50 lbs.

• Assemble, connect small objects

• Reaching retrieving work materials

• Guiding power tools

• Operate equipment controls, levers and buttons

• Work near moving objects

• Exposure to fumes, noise, extreme temperatures, sharp objects

• Ability to work a flexible schedule according to production needs including weekends and nights.

Benefits Information

PART-TIME (less than .60 FTE): Part-time positions less than .60 FTE are not entitled to any District paid fringe benefits.

YCAFT Salary Schedule 2024-2027 YC AFT Contract

Special Instructions to Applicants

Yuba Community College District maintains an ongoing recruitment for qualified candidates to fill part-time, temporary (adjunct) faculty positions. These positions are filled on an as-needed basis, depending on the instructional and student service needs of the colleges. Applicants may be contacted throughout the year as opportunities become available. The applicant pool remains open continuously and is refreshed every two years.

Important Instructions:

• To apply for this position, interested candidates are required to complete an online application, including submission of a Resume, Letter of Interest, EEO/Diversity Statement and Unofficial Transcripts through the People Admin application portal.

• FOREIGN TRANSCRIPTS: Include a U.S. evaluation and translation. Click HERE for a list of acceptable agencies providing foreign transcript services.

• It is important to note that the District retains the right to extend time limits or initiate the recruitment/selection process anew at any stage.

• Education Code §87408.6 states that no person shall be initially employed by a community college district in an academic or classified position unless the person has submitted to an examination within the past sixty (60) days to determine that he/she/they is free of active tuberculosis.

• As a condition of employment, the position you are applying for will require that you provide fingerprints to the local police department. The fees charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI for the fingerprint report is the employee’s responsibility.

• Fingerprint clearance must be received prior to the employee’s first day on the job.