About MCC
Metropolitan Community College is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 1915 as the Kansas City Polytechnic Institute. The Junior College of Kansas City, as it was known starting in 1919, was one of the first schools in the country to award an associate degree. Today, MCC offers 125 associate degree and certificate programs.
Metropolitan Community College comprises five campuses on the Missouri side of the Greater Kansas City area 47 major buildings and about 550 acres in all: MCC-Blue River, located in Independence, Missouri; MCC-Longview located in Lee's Summit, Missouri, MCC-Maple Woods located in the Northland of Kansas City, Missouri; MCC-Online and MCC-Penn Valley, located in Midtown Kansas City, Missouri.
MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. In addition, several programs have specific accreditations as well.
***MCC does not provide employer-paid sponsorships.***
Job Summary
POOL POSITION
Application materials for this position is accepted on an on-going basis due to increasing demand. Assignments may be scheduled but not granted based on enrollment and/or operational decisions.
The Workforce and Economic Development Division (W.E.D.) of Metropolitan Community College is the leader in innovative workforce solutions and community enrichment. We partner to first develop our community in order to develop it economically for the growth of the Kansas City metro's citizens; families, businesses, industry, organizations, and associations.
Temporary faculty serve the college and students by providing high quality instruction and engaging in instruction related activities. Temporary faculty are expected to perform all duties associated with teaching an assigned course to include all course preparation, meeting with students, entering grades, and other duties related to course delivery. Upon employment temporary faculty must maintain updated credentials as required by the college's accrediting agencies.
Employment Restrictions:
- An annuitant of the Missouri Retirement System must adhere to the applicable regulations.
- Employees, who possess a valid Missouri Teaching Certificate, may be required to participate in the Public School Retirement System of Missouri (PSRS).
- Temporary faculty may be assigned up to ten (10) work units per semester for fall and spring. An additional two (2) work units per term may be assigned with approval from the dean and notification to human resources but no more than twenty-four (24) work units in an academic year. For summer, work units may not exceed 3.5 work units in June, and 3.5 work units in July.
- Noncredit courses taught during the normal academic year are included in these limitations.
- Combination Load Maximum: If a temporary faculty member's load includes work unit and clock hour assignments, the combined weekly clock hour total will be monitored to adhere to temporary faculty assignment limitations.
Employees assigned responsibilities through Workforce and Economic Development may be compensated based on assigned work units or clock-hours, in accordance with MCCKC guidelines for temporary employment.
Essential Functions
- Develop and teach non-credit classes.
- Ability to communicate clearly.
- Teach an assignment that is determined upon course enrollment
- Subjects include but are not limited to the following:
- Acting
- Arts and Crafts
- Bartending
- Basic Office Skills
- Budgeting and Finance
- Business
- Computer (basic, intermediate, and advanced)
- Culinary
- Culture and/or History
- Cyber Security
- Dance and Fitness
- Health
- Digital Advertising
- Digital Media
- Digital or Graphic Art
- Drawing
- Entrepreneurship Skills
- Fabric/Sewing
- Foreign Language
- Gardening (organic, hydroponics, urban farming)
- Hospitality and Tourism
- Leadership
- Marketing for Small Business
- Music
- Painting
- Sculpting
- Social media
- Soft skills
- Songwriting
- Sustainability
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Physical Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
- Certificate and/or license, OR Associate OR Bachelor's degree in the appropriate subject area, when applicable; OR equivalent combination of education/training and job-related experience
- Knowledge, skills, ability, and expertise are required in the field.
- Must be able to provide a course proposal, description, and syllabus detailing the student outcomes.
To learn more about the Workforce and Economic Development Division (WED)'s Community Education, please click here.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Have an interest in working in an academic setting and with MCC students
- Demonstrated knowledge and competence in the desired tutoring subject matter
- Demonstrated ability to work and communicate effectively with all constituencies of a diverse community
- Ability to work well with others
- Strong oral and written communication skills
Physical Requirements
Positions in this class typically requires feeling, grasping, hearing, keyboarding, reaching, repetitive motion, standing, talking, visual acuity, and walking. The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly.
Organization
Long before Kansas City looked the way it does today, a group of people believed the region needed a place where anyone could get an education that led somewhere. That belief became Kansas City Polytechnic Institute in 1915, and a few years later, the Junior College of Kansas City, one of the first schools in the country to award an associate degree. Over a century later, that same idea still drives the institution known today as Metropolitan Community College.
MCC is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Kansas City, Missouri, and that history isn't just a footnote. It's the foundation for a mission that hasn't changed: open doors, build skills, and help people move forward, whether that means a first degree, a career change, or a new trade learned close to home. Today, MCC offers 125 associate degree and certificate programs across five campuses on the Missouri side of the Kansas City area: Blue River, Longview, Maple Woods, Penn Valley, and MCC-Online, spanning 47 buildings and roughly 550 acres.
But campuses and buildings only tell part of the story. What makes MCC matter is the people inside them, faculty who show up for students navigating school alongside jobs and families, staff who help someone find their footing, and colleagues who understand that this work changes the trajectory of a life. MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, and several of its programs carry additional specialized accreditation, a reflection of a place that takes its responsibility to students seriously without losing sight of why the work exists in the first place.
For more than a hundred years, MCC has been part of how Kansas City grows and moves forward. The next chapter is being written now, by the people who choose to build their careers here. There's a place in that story for you.
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