"Instructor, Chemistry"

Instructor, Chemistry

Position Type: Faculty

Position Code: 3FSM14

FTE: 1.0

Pay Rate (or Annual Salary): $86,464 - $117,364/annual

Job Location: Las Positas College, 3000 Campus Hill Dr., Livermore, CA 94551

Department: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Job Summary:

The Las Positas Community
Las Positas College provides an inclusive, learning-centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students’ transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning. At Las Positas College we know that equity will be achieved by changing the impacts of structural racism, ableism, homophobia, and systematic poverty on student success and access to higher education, achieved through continuous evaluation and improvement of all services. We believe in a high-quality education focused on learning and an inclusive, culturally-relevant environment that meets the diverse needs of all our students and staff.

Equity is parity in student educational outcomes; it places belonging for students of color and disproportionately impacted students at center focus. Our prized and emerging equity efforts include Puente, Umoja, ConnectUp, Brother 2 Brother, Sister 2 Sister, Black Student Union, Presidential Task Force on Systemic and Institutionalized Racism, the Presidential Speaker Series, Black Education Association, UndocuAlly Taskforce, curriculum reviews and a linguistic justice curriculum.

Located in Livermore, Las Positas College is becoming an institution that reflects the diversity in California. We are a learning-centered institution focused on excellence and student success, and are fully committed to supporting all Tri-Valley residents in their quest for education and advancement.

Joining Our College Community

We seek equity-minded applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to an educational community. We look for applicants who:

1. Value and intentionally promote diversity and consciousness of difference
2. Demonstrate cultural humility and an ongoing desire to improve cultural competence
3. Are dedicated to addressing issues of social justice
4. Accept their shared role and responsibility in addressing opportunity and achievement gaps experienced by students
5. Have experience and success in closing student equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices, or are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about implementing practices that achieve these goals
6. Actively seek to identify, disrupt, and remove institutional and/or systemic barriers that adversely impact historically marginalized communities
7. Empower the underrepresented and underserved
8. Foster students’ potential to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders
9. Believe that all people have the right to an education and work environment free from fear, harassment, or discrimination

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking to fill an Instructor, Chemistry for Las Positas College in Livermore, California.

This position reports directly to the Division Dean.

Representative Duties:

1. Ability and dedication to teach all levels of chemistry courses offered at Las Positas College (general, introductory, and allied health) including lectures and laboratories;
2. Ability to teach Chemistry enthusiastically, including incorporating new discoveries, research, and ideas into classrooms and teaching laboratories;
3. Ability to adapt instructional techniques to accommodate varied learning styles and abilities.
4. Commitment to collaborate in a timely fashion with laboratory technicians in the preparation of materials for courses;
5. Ability to develop and update curriculum outlines for chemistry courses;
6. Commitment to working successfully as a team with other faculty and classified professionals, in STEM and across the college and district;
7. Ability to implement, have respect for, and maintain standards of safe laboratory practices with students in the classroom;
8. Ability to contribute to the total operation of the Department, Division, and College;
9. Ability to work with computer-based instruction and integrate computers and associated peripherals as teaching and learning aids in lecture and laboratory settings;
10. Commitment to seek and support personal creativity and professional growth and demonstrate career objectives consistent with the mission of Las Positas College;
11. Commitment to participate in campus professional activities, which may include, but are not limited to, development of curriculum and new and innovative instructional approaches, committee membership, staff meetings, and community outreach;
12. Participate in recruitment and articulation activities;
13. Teach early morning, late afternoon, evening, weekend, and/or off campus classes when scheduled as part of the regular teaching assignment;
14. Ability to interact successfully with students,’ faculty, administrators, staff, and community groups;
15. Ability to communicate effectively both in oral and written form;
16. Evidence of sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical or learning disabilities.

Minimum Education and Experience:

Master’s in chemistry

OR Bachelor’s in chemistry or biochemistry AND Master’s in biochemistry, chemical engineering, chemical physics, physics, molecular biology or geochemistry

OR the equivalent.

You must upload all applicable transcripts... (full text on requirements for transcripts, equivalents, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications:

Evidence of sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, including those with physical and learning disabilities.

Desirable Qualifications:

1. Teaching experience in Chemistry at the college level, with an emphasis on lower division courses.
2. Ability to advise students regarding transfer options, degrees, and careers to chemistry.
3. Commitment and ability to recruit and support under-represented groups including racial/ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals, and first-generation college students.

Job Work Schedule:

The positions are full-time, tenure track, beginning Fall 2026. Employment will begin on or about August 20, 2026.

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