Upward Bound Instructor

Title: Upward Bound Instructor

Agency: Rappahannock Community College

Location: Richmond County - 159

FLSA: Nonexempt

Hiring Range: Pay rate up to $25/hour based upon education and experience.

Full Time or Part Time: Part Time

Additional Detail

Job Description:

Rappahannock Community College (RCC), founded in 1970, provides high-quality educational and training opportunities throughout a 12-county service region an hour east of Richmond on the beautiful western shore of the Chesapeake Bay with access to fresh local seafood and water activities. RCC delivers accessible and affordable educational opportunities, including for-credit transfer and career technical programs, robust distance education coursework, quality dual enrollment courses, and award-winning workforce training and credentialing programs. RCC’s annualized enrollment of 3,259 credit students and over 1,000 workforce and community development students are supported by over 120 full-time employees and 200 part-time/adjunct employees across two main campuses and four satellite sites.

RCC is a two-campus institution serving a rural and diverse 12-county area in the Chesapeake Bay region of Virginia, whose mission is to provide inclusive access to exceptional training and educational opportunities meeting the community’s needs and preparing individuals for success as learners, employees, and citizens.

RCC seeks applicants for an Instructor of the Upward Bound Program who shares RCC’s values of integrity, diversity, equity, inclusion, excellence, access, and learning for life. This position is a part-time grant funded position located primarily at the Warsaw campus and would require a flexible working schedule to include Saturdays as scheduled. The position is up to twenty-nine hours a week for the summer and Saturdays during the academic year (September 1, 2025 –May 30, 2026). Pay rate will be up to $25 per hour based on educational level.

RCC Upward Bound (UB) is a free college preparatory program funded by the U.S. Department of Education to provide academic and non-cognitive support to low-income, first-generation high school students (9th – 12th graders) who attend Essex, Lancaster, and Westmoreland High Schools.

The UB Instructor is responsible for planning, developing, and executing effective lesson plans for college preparatory courses focusing on English, literature, math, science, and foreign language, setting class expectations, abiding by grading policies, encouraging class participation, providing continual feedback, assigning and correcting homework, providing supplemental instruction/tutoring, and other duties as assigned.

The UB Instructor will teach in the following content areas: English, reading/literature, mathematics, Spanish, and/or a science discipline. This position will develop and implement a course syllabus incorporating interactive hands on components that reflect 21st century methods to prepare students for college level instruction, establish ground rules and expectations for all participants, submit course reports and maintain records for program compliance that detail participant progress, deliver face-to-face or virtual class instruction to UB participants up to five hours per month (during the academic year), assist program participants with the use of the computer lab and online tutoring modules and perform other duties as assigned.

• Must have knowledge, skills and experience to teach math, science, English, foreign language, or science.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as organizational skills.
• Task-oriented and able to prioritize and complete multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Position requires a positive attitude and the ability to work effectively with and display sensitivity toward a wide range of ethnic, socioeconomic, cultural and life‐style differences among staff and student participants.

• Bachelor’s degree in education or related field from an accredited college or university.
• Teacher certification.
• Master’s degree.
• Teaching experience in the subject area (English, literature, reading, science, math, or foreign language).
• Experience working in postsecondary education with high school students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Experience with assessing academic needs of students and developing appropriate learning interventions to improve academic performance.
• Ability to adapt instruction to students with wide-ranging skill levels.
• Strong classroom management skills.