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Job no: 495206
Work type: Full-time Faculty
Location: Overland Park Main Campus
Categories: Credit Instruction

Position, Department: Assistant Professor, Humanities, Academic Affairs

Type of Position: Full-time Faculty, Exempt

Work Schedule, Hours per week: 40 hours per week

Pay Range: (MOBU *Actual pay depends on qualifications in alignment with the Master Agreement

Pay Grade: 9MOBU

Benefits Category: Full-time Benefits

Position Summary: Johnson County Community College is looking to fill a full-time faculty position in Humanities (with emphases listed below). JCCC is located in Overland Park, KS, the second largest city in the state of Kansas and part of the greater Kansas City Metro. JCCC is dedicated to creating and maintaining a rich cultural community, with an award-winning contemporary art museum, brand new fine arts building, and a center for the performing arts located on campus.

JCCC is looking for a diverse pool of applicants for a full-time faculty position in the Art History and Humanities department. Full-time faculty in this department, all of whom have doctorates in their fields, work to strike a balance between teaching and research and have strong professional connections with the regional visual and performing arts groups and institutions. JCCC is committed to increasing the diversity of our college community. Many of our 18,000 students are nontraditional, military veterans, immigrants, international, and first-generation college students. African American, Asian American, and Hispanic student populations are also growing.

The successful applicant for this job will teach the equivalent of 15 credit hours per semester in Humanities and Classical Mythology. Teaching assignments in Art History are also a possibility based on applicant qualifications. This person will perform other duties expected of full-time faculty, including maintaining scheduled office hours, developing and revising curriculum, developing and implementing course and program assessment of student learning outcomes, participating in department, division, and college meetings, serving on committees, and other duties as assigned. Teaching assignments will be combination of face-to-face (day or evening), hybrid or online, and are subject to change as needed.

Additional responsibilities:
• Provide extra and co-curricular opportunities for students interested in humanistic disciplines.
• Participate in the planning and administration of all departmental functions.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree in humanities or a related humanistic discipline, such as the fine arts, art history or classics
• Strong teaching ability
• Expertise in a humanistic discipline
• Comfort with adopting and using new technologies
• Ability to teach sections of Introduction to Humanities and Classical Mythology
• Two years’ documented successful teaching at the college level
• Demonstrated knowledge of and commitment to the teaching mission of a comprehensive community college
• Excellence in collaborating with faculty and students within and outside the discipline

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD in a humanistic discipline
• Master’s degree in art history
• Ability to teach a general survey course in the Humanities / Fine Arts / Art History / Western and World Humanities, Classical
• Mythology (focusing on myth as literature and later artistic representations of myth), and World Mythology (not necessarily all of these)
• Demonstrated proficiency with online learning systems
• Demonstrated understanding of academic culture

To be considered for this position we will require an application, resume, transcripts and cover letter.

*Official/unofficial transcripts are required for all Adjunct faculty and Faculty positions.

Duties and responsibilities, as required by business necessity, may be added, deleted or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing. Scheduling, shift assignments and work location may be changed at any time, as required by business necessity.

Diversity Statement: Here at Johnson County Community College, we seek to inspire positive change for our students, faculty, and staff through promoting growth and development of all individuals. We aim to create a sense of belonging, accepting all values, life experiences, and perspectives on our campus. We are seeking individuals who will bring their true, authentic selves to JCCC so we can broaden perspectives with innovative ideas, interests, and passions, while fostering and promoting our diversity commitments to our community. We believe that engaging all of our unique employees is the key to students’ success. You belong here.

About JCCC: Established in 1969, Johnson County Community College is dedicated to transforming lives and strengthening communities through learning. Located in Overland Park, Kansas, JCCC has enjoyed a national reputation for educational excellence and student success for more than 50 years. That's five decades dedicated to smaller class sizes, more resources and a thriving campus culture – not to mention our competitive tuition rates and extracurricular experiences that transcend the norm.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Johnson County Community College (JCCC) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. JCCC provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information.

Disclosure: If you need any assistance throughout the search process, please reach out to the HR Generalist for this position. In accordance with the college policy, finalists for this position will be subject to criminal background investigations. Individual hiring departments at JCCC may elect to administer pre-employment tests, which are relevant to essential job functions as part of the applicant selection/hiring process. Many departments require those selected for hire to submit a certified transcript for all degrees obtained. For full consideration, applicants are encouraged to apply prior to the review date listed in posting.

If you are an applicant requesting assistance or a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact the Office of Human Resources at 913-469-3877, or email JobsAtJCCC@jccc.edu.

Advertised: 03 Feb 2023 Central Standard Time
Applications close: 10 Mar 2023 Central Standard Time