$51,774 - $99,672 annually
Residential Faculty at Rio Salado College serve as Faculty Chairs to provide leadership over multidisciplinary academic and/or service areas. This Faculty Chair position will oversee the Languages Department. This position will join a small, collaborative, and innovative Faculty Chair cohort who manage their programs, projects, initiatives, and services while supervising a large contingent of adjunct faculty. Residential Faculty members also serve on Rio Salado’s Faculty Senate and actively participate in multiple college, district, and even state-level committees. This position reports directly to the Vice President of Academic Affairs.
Essential Functions
35% - Provides leadership for adjunct faculty in discipline and related disciplines to include hiring, training, mentoring, and evaluation.
35% - Engages in various instructional activities such as teaching a diverse population of students, curriculum development and assessment, researching and resolving student-related concerns, etc.
20% - Serves on collaborative work teams with faculty, staff, administration, and community partners.
10% - Coordinates development and provides oversight for discipline-related partnerships and programs.
Minimum Qualifications
Language faculty must have a master’s degree in the language to be taught or a master’s degree in any field and 18 graduate credits and/or experience credits in the language to be taught.
Desired Qualifications
A. Master’s degree or higher in Spanish or a Master's degree or higher in any field with 18 graduate credit hours in Spanish
B. Experience working in a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary environment handling multiple tasks/projects effectively.
C. Experience with multiple modalities, including online educational methodologies, curriculum development, implementation, and assessment; teaching online and/or hybrid post secondary courses; and developing and/or revising online post-secondary curricula in the discipline field and/or related area, including using open educational resources and/or textbookless content
D. Demonstrated participation in assessment/accreditation activities at a course, department, and college level, and experience using data for department-level assessment and/or program review
E. Experience hiring, training, mentoring, managing, and evaluating faculty
F. Experience researching and resolving student/faculty or internal/external customer issues
G. Experience working with diverse populations, such as dual enrollment/early college, incarcerated, adult re-entry, rehabilitation, at-risk, etc.
H. Experience working with program committees, community stakeholders, and/or industry leaders and leading college committees
I. Participation in shared governance activities at a higher education institution
J. Experience conducting and/or presenting at conferences or workshops
Applicants are required to submit unofficial transcripts, resume/Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a cover letter showing how the applicant meets the minimum and desired qualifications. All minimum requirements must be met at the time of the application. If your master’s degree is not in the teaching field, then please list the 18 graduate semester hours completed in the teaching field in your application materials.
MCCCD accepts unofficial transcripts for U.S. schools at the time of application. Unofficial transcripts are submitted as an attachment to the application. Transcripts from non U.S. institutions must be translated and evaluated and provided with application material.
Additional materials will not be accepted after the job posting has closed.
Missing materials or incomplete employment history will not be considered.
Please ensure your materials clearly provide the following information.
- Clearly illustrate how prior experience, knowledge and education meet the minimum and desired qualifications for this position.
- Indicate whether former or current employment is Full-Time or;
- Part-Time employment (must include number of hours worked or load)
- Provide employment history in a month/year format (e.g., 09/07 to 10/11) including job title, job duties, for each position held and name of employer for each position.
- Three professional references, preferably current and/or former supervisors. If references are not provided in resume upon application, they will be requested at time of interview.
The soft application deadline for review of applications is February 13, 2026. While the position is open until filled, materials received after this date are not guaranteed full consideration and
will be reviewed at the sole discretion of the search committee.