Salary: $75.62 - $91.74 Hourly
Location : Fairfield, CA
Job Type: Adjunct Faculty
Job Number: ADJ-NUTR-25
Department: School of Health Sciences
Opening Date: 09/24/2025
Closing Date: 6/30/2026 11:59 PM Pacific
Description
Solano Community College is seeking a pool of qualified applicants for possible temporary part-time teaching assignments. These positions are filled on an as needed basis and are on-going recruitments. Assignments may include day, evening and weekend courses. The district may cancel classes or change instructors as enrollment needs are determined.
Responsibilities
Primarily teach introductory classes in the nutrition program. Provide instruction in accordance with established course outlines and expectations; inform students about course requirements; prepare and grade assignments and examinations; meet administrative timelines and submit completed and required documents and reports; and maintain required student attendance and scholastic records. Review of curriculum and assessment of student learning.
Minimum Qualifications
Master's in nutrition, dietetics or dietetics and food administration OR Bachelors's in any of the above AND Master's in chemistry, public health or family, and consumer studies/home economics OR the equivalent.
(Note: A bachelor's in nutrition, dietetics, or dietetics and food administration, and certification as a registered dietitian, is an alternative qualification for this discipline.)
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of teaching; multiple teaching methods which include critical thinking and problem-solving strategies; and college academic requirements and standards.
Candidates must possess a commitment to encouragement of learning and an enthusiastic attitude toward teaching; sensitivity to teach students from diverse cultural, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds who may have wide ranges of abilities, including the disabled.
Adjunct faculty may purchase health and welfare benefits, at their expense, to the extent permitted by the District's health and welfare benefits carrier and/or broker.
Eligibility:
Taught at Solano Community College for at least two semesters (excludes summer session); must be scheduled for a minimum of 40% assignment at the time of enrollment in the health plan; enrollment periods to be determined each semester; once enrolled mandatory participation will be required (participation period to be determined); premiums will be made through payroll deduction and additional premiums due on a monthly basis by check to the Business Office no later than the 10th of each month for the succeeding month's benefits; and other procedures for implementation as determined by the District in consultation with the Association.