Faculty - Dental Assisting Instructor

Job Details

Want to make impact in the field of healthcare? Ready to share your expertise with students eager to enter the dental profession? Hawkeye Community College has a great opportunity for you. The School of Science and Health Sciences is seeking a full-time faculty member to provide high-quality Dental Assisting instruction.

We are interested in finding a knowledgeable, positive professional role model to lead our students. The college provides a two-year faculty induction & mentoring program to support our newest faculty members.

Our full-time, nine-month faculty position, provides instruction in the Dental Assisting program, specifically didactic and clinical.

Essential Job Functions

• Designs and implements instruction aligned with student learning objectives/outcomes.
• Employs various instructional methods and materials that are appropriate for meeting stated objectives, assessing accomplishments of students on a regular basis, and providing progress reports as requested and required.
• Formulates and maintains curriculum for assigned courses.
• Supervises and advises students. Motivates, inspires and retains students in the program.
• Maintains and evaluates program and student performance.
• Maintains cooperative relationships with the Dean, Dental Administrative chair, other faculty, the program’s Advisory Committee, all divisions of the College, prospective employers, and the community.
• Participates actively as a department member with a focus on student learning.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Unless otherwise approved, regular on campus and/or onsite attendance is considered an essential function of the position.

Minimum Qualifications

• Diploma in Dental Assisting from a Commission on Dental Accreditation Accredited Program.
• Has a current/active Registered Dental Assistant (RDA) certification.
• Three years of full-time recent experience in clinical dentistry.
• Certified in CPR, First Aid, and Mandatory Reporter Child and Adult Dependents.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new and current technical skills and ideas.
• Demonstrated strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills to positively interact with students, faculty, and staff.
• Demonstrated motivation to serve students from all backgrounds and educational experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a wide array of people such as faculty, staff, students, and the general public in a professional and personable manner.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in health, education, or a related science field.
• Relevant industry experience.
• Post-secondary teaching experience (clinical, classroom and laboratory instruction in an accredited dental program).
• Community college experience.

Working Conditions

Teaching assignments may include days, evenings, face-to-face, online, or hybrid instruction. A full-time teaching load of 15 credit hours per term is typical.

Work is performed either in or a combination of an office, lab and/or classroom setting using technology.

Employment Status

Full time, nine-month faculty contractual position with comprehensive or competitive benefits program including health, dental, vision, life, and LTD insurance, a Section 125 plan for medical and dependent care expenses; holiday, personal, sick leave; tuition reimbursement/remission; and a choice of retirement programs—IPERS (defined benefit) or TIAA (defined contribution).

Salary will be commensurate with the candidate’s education and experience based on the Hawkeye Professional Educators’ Associate Master Agreement.

Current faculty pay structure consists of 20 steps with Step 1 as $52,017 through Step 20 as $68,754.

Application Procedure

Complete an online application at www.hawkeyecollege.edu/employment

• Submit/upload a cover letter addressing the following: Describe your professional work experience in education (include courses taught and employment status). Please indicate equivalent number of full-time years if the work was part-time. Your professional work experience outside of education that is related to this position.
• Submit/upload a resume.
• Submit/upload 3 professional references with a minimum of 1 being from a current/past supervisor.

This position is open until filled. Completed applications, along with the required materials will be reviews upon submission.