"Assistant Professor, Business"

Assistant Professor, Business

Riverside Community College District

Application Deadline: Interested candidates must apply by 9/30/2025 by 8:00 p.m., Pacific Standard Time.

Department: Business & IST (R)

Position Type: Full-Time Faculty/Counselor/Librarian

College/Campus: Riverside

Physical location of the position: Riverside

Employment Type: Full-Time, Tenure Track (Faculty)

Position Length: 10-month

Salary Range: Column C, Step 1 to Column H, Step 6

Salary Amount: $86,023 to $132,539

Salary Type: Annual

Is this position categorically (grant) funded? No

Job Description

BASIC FUNCTION: The Business and Information Systems & Technology department is seeking a full-time tenure track faculty member in the discipline of Business. The successful candidate will be responsible for instruction and curriculum development within the Business disciplines to include courses in the Associate Degree for Transfer in Business Administration as well as other business concentrations to include, general business, management, marketing, global business, entrepreneurship and human resources. Instructional assignments may include weekdays, evenings, weekends and online sections.

The ideal candidate will be equity minded and eager to work with a diverse student population and will be experienced in culturally-responsive pedagogical practices for engaging African-American, Latinx/Hispanic, Native-American, and Pacific Islander students, which are historically underserved. Riverside City College (RCC) currently enrolls 28,939 students, the majority of whom are from racially minority populations. 60% of RCC's students are Hispanic, 8% are African-American, 7% are Asian, 0.3% are Native American, 0.7% are Pacific Islander, 21% are White, and 2% are multiracial. RCC has been designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community.

EDUCATION:

Master's in business, business management, business administration, accountancy, finance, marketing or business education OR Bachelor's in any of the above AND Master's in economics, personnel management, public administration, or Juris Doctor Degree (J.D.) or Legum Baccalaureus (LL.B.) OR Bachelor's in economics with a business emphasis AND Master's in personnel management, public administration, or Juris Doctor Degree (J.D.) or Legum Baccalaureus (LL.B.) OR the equivalent. (All degrees and units used to satisfy minimum qualifications shall be from accredited institutions).

EXPERIENCE:

A minimum of five years of work experience in business, preferably with managerial responsibilities AND a minimum of three years teaching business courses at a community college or baccalaureate level institution, of which two years of teaching conducted in classroom face-to-face modality is required.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Evidence of experience in curriculum development, including creating new courses.
• Evidence of skill sets specially Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook.
• Evidence of knowledge of and use of current and emerging educational technologies in today's learning environment.
• Evidence of participation in professional development activities in the business profession and/or the education community.
• Evidence of a strong commitment to academic excellence, quality instruction, student motivation, and student success.
• Evidence of an ability to incorporate alternative instructional activities and exercises to achieve learning outcomes.
• Evidence of participation in student success initiatives in a postsecondary setting.
• Evidence of an ability to address the instructional needs of a diverse and frequently underprepared student population.
• Evidence of an ability to effectively engage with and facilitate authentic learning for students of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences.
• Evidence of an ability to adapt teaching pedagogy to the knowledge level (developmental through transfer) and personality of each individual and class.
• Evidence of an ability to self-reflect and respond to an evidenced based assessment of student learning.
• Evidence of innovation, scholarship, or leadership in the teaching of business.
• Desire and demonstrated ability to participate actively in department, division, and college committees and in the shared governance of Riverside City College.
• Desire and demonstrated ability to take a leadership role in program development, including willingness to obtain necessary industry certification.
• Desire and evidence of an ability to take on leadership roles both within the department and in the institution as a whole.
• Ability to work with computers, and use the Internet and interactive technologies to engage students in on-campus and online courses (where academically appropriate); and intrinsic motivation and ability to develop and teach online courses.
• Evidence of an ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:

None.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY:

Evidence of a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students (E.C. 87360a).

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The successful candidate will, among other things: 1. Fulfill the duties of a full-time instructor, including, but not limited to, holding weekly office hours and completing 24 hours of 'flex credit' through various available activities and seminars. 2. The instructional assignment may include, but are not limited to: lecture and/or laboratory classes in general business, management, marketing, international global business, entrepreneurship, and human resources, and advertising in accordance with established course outlines. 3. Participation in discipline/department decision making processes and work to provide leadership in the development, revision, and assessment of Accounting general business, management, marketing, global business, entrepreneurship, and/or human resources curriculum. 4. Program development, Improvement of Instruction, and other professional matters are also expected of all department faculty. 5. Assignments are based upon the assumption of workload of forty hours weekly, including but not limited to conducting classes, class preparation, student evaluation, office hours, committee work, curriculum and program development, student learning outcomes assessment, program review, student activities, and other duties per the bargaining unit agreement. 6. Institutional service activities are expected of all faculty members. 7. Responsibilities also include maintaining standards of professional conduct and ethics appropriate to the professional position.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:

1. 'Hours may include evenings, weekends, and off-site locations.' 2. Ten-month, tenure-track position. 3. Salary is commensurate with academic preparation, and full-time teaching or equivalent experience with a range from Column C, Step 1 to Column H, Step 6 of the current Faculty Salary Schedule. 4. Medical and dental benefits are provided for the employee and legal dependents. 5. A $50,000 life insurance policy is provided for the employee. 6. Orientation to college is required as is adherence to Improvement of Instruction policy. 7. Maintaining broad knowledge of the academic or occupational area and design pedagogy related to learning outcomes is expected. 8. Responsible for all other conditions of employment required of full-time faculty members such as a willingness to be involved in District and College promotional activities, active participation in college committee work, student activities and other support services, and appropriate professional activities.