Job Details

Sociology Instructor, Full-time faculty (Tehachapi/Rising Scholars)
Kern Community College District

Salary: $95,412.68 - $116,884.82 Annually

Job Type: Faculty

Job Number: FY25-2600311

Location: CC - East Kern, Tehachapi (Rising Scholars), CA

Department: Social Science (SSCI)

Basic Function

Cerro Coso Community College is seeking a full-time, tenure track, Instructor located at the Indian Wells Valley (IWV) Campus in Ridgecrest, California.

We are seeking dedicated, experienced, and motivated individuals to provide leadership, engagement, and discipline expertise in continuing to move the program forward in innovative ways. As a full time faculty member at Cerro Coso Community College, successful candidates will demonstrate commitment to student success and equity through teaching and learning excellence.

Representative Duties

This is a full-time, tenure-track, 175-day position as a community college Instructor.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide instruction in a full range of sociology courses.

Other duties include: participation in student recruitment and articulation maintaining subject matter currency; developing and revising curriculum; using innovative learning technology; assessing learning outcomes; participating collegially in departmental, college and discipline-specific professional activities; and others.

This assignment may include teaching courses in various locations at different times and with different modalities. Cerro Coso Community College offers college courses in the greater Ridgecrest area, rural communities, and local-area high schools using face-to-face, online, and real-time interactive modalities. Faculty will also teach in the college's nationally-recognized incarcerated student education program.

Minimum Qualifications

Master's in sociology

OR Bachelor's in sociology AND Master's in anthropology, any ethnic studies, social work or psychology

OR - The equivalent.

AND - A demonstrated sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.