Automotive Adjunct Professor

Description:

We also offer:
A healthy work/life balance for our employees with the opportunity for flexible work schedules and remote work depending on position and college needs
Fine dining in the Percival Room, offering vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free choices as part of our Culinary Arts and Baking & Pastry Arts programs
The Clipper Coffee Corner serves Batdorf & Bronson coffee and a selection of delicious food items from our baking/culinary students
A brand-new Health & Wellness Center
FREE Bus service every 15 minutes to downtown Olympia and beyond
FREE parking on our campuses – permits are not required
On-campus child care
Percival Creek, which runs beneath our campus footbridge, provides year-round beauty, and views of Chinook, Coho, and chum salmon pass through each fall
Many walking paths are marked and on nicely paved sidewalks
SPSCC promotes wellness with a variety of different workshops and events on campus
Lots of activities with our Artist & Lecture series, which are FREE for staff and faculty
Many community events in the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)offer an opportunity for SPSCC employees to gather and connect around issues that define them personally and affect their work at the College and their professional development. Current Employee Resource Groups include:
Staff and Faculty of Color (SFOC) ERG - an employee network that strives to create an intentional and relational foundation for community and trust building across different groups through shared values.
The LGBTQIA+ ERG creates a space for LGBTQIA+ college staff and faculty to share resources, build support and community, and work towards greater equity and accessibility.

What You'll Do
Successful candidates will possess the interest, skills, and abilities to help college teams lead the state in innovative and collaborative learning experiences designed to optimize student success. Successful candidates will exhibit the following qualities:

Place student success at the center of all decision-making.
Engage with students, faculty, staff, and administrators to create a community of learners.
Seek opportunities for teaching and learning excellence.
Embrace change, risk-taking, and innovation.
Respect the richness of diverse cultural values, beliefs, and practices of others.
Contribute to the technical and general education of students who will apply learning to the world of work and transfer their education to a university.
Faculty members will work with other faculty, staff, and administrators to:
Craft contextualized and integrated learning experiences to meet stated student learning outcomes at the course, program, and college level.
Create and facilitate authentic, contextualized, and integrated learning experiences in Automotive Technology related to identified college pathways linked to career goals.
Create authentic assessments of students' knowledge, skills, and abilities in Automotive Technology and college abilities that measure course, program, and college-wide outcomes.
Apply multiple teaching and learning strategies that promote the affective, cognitive, and kinesthetic domains of learning.
Advise students regarding academic pathways and the courses needed to reach each student's academic goals.
Use local, state, and national data and analytics to improve strategies for student success continuously.
Use many learning resources, tools, and technologies to improve access and student success in higher education.
Serve on committees that support the shared governance of the college.
Remain current with automotive trends and breakthroughs and incorporate them into the curriculum.
Possess the knowledge to perform at a high skill level in all eight automotive service and repair areas.
Demonstrate multicultural competence (including an awareness and understanding of historically disadvantaged populations) and create an educational and work environment that affirms a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Support the college's mission by creating a work environment of mutual respect and fairness while encouraging creative and critical thinking.
Contribute to the appreciation of diversity and foster a climate of multicultural understanding.
Qualifications You Possess
Minimum Qualifications
Associate's degree related to Automotive Technology or three (3) years of recent industry experience in automotive technology
Successful applicants will be required to obtain current ASE Certification within 90 days of hire, including:
ASE A6 - Electrical/Electronic Systems Certification.
ASE G1 – Auto Maintenance and Light Repair Certification
Ability to work an early afternoon or evening schedule
Ability to provide and teach automotive skills, automotive theory, and operations and maintenance of automotive equipment in a structured lecture and lab environment
A Washington State Professional Technical Vocational Certificate or ability to become vocationally certificated, which requires at least two years of applicable experience within the last five years.
Demonstrated experience or participation with persons from diverse backgrounds such as sexual orientation, racial, ethnic, religious, linguistic, gender, age, socio-economic, physical, and learning abilities, and a commitment to an inclusive and equitable working/learning environment.