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Location : All Yavapai College Campuses, AZ
Job Type: Adjunct Faculty (Part Time)
Job Number: 2026-00002
Department: PS Fire Science
Opening Date: 07/20/2026
Description of Position
Hiring Rate: $1,050.00 per load hour
The Fire Science Department is actively recruiting qualified faculty to teach fire science classes.
The successful faculty member recognizes that service to our students is our highest priority, and embraces their role in student success, recruitment, and retention. This includes being open to a variety of delivery methods and course design with the possibility of interactive, online, day, evening, weekend classes and/or teaching at various College locations and/or in the high school/college dual enrollment programs. In addition, faculty should be open to both traditional (16 week) and compressed course design (i.e., 8 week classes). Faculty can expect to participate in innovative forms of assessment and should be willing to utilize Open Educational Resources (OER) when possible.
Terms of Teaching Assignment Include:

• Meet and teach assigned class(es) in accordance with course outlines, including specified textbooks. A course outline is a district-approved document covering such items as course prefix, number, title, description, learning outcomes and content.
• Develop and submit to the division office a course syllabus and calendar based upon the approved college course outline prior to the start of class. Every course syllabus must incorporate the required components of a course syllabus. A syllabus is a learning plan designed by the instructor to inform students about the learning outcomes, assessment requirements, grading criteria, attendance standards, institution policies and support services.
• Promptly submit required rosters, grade reports, evaluations, and academic reports; retain student grade records for one calendar year.
• Follow the accepted standards of conduct for faculty as described in applicable academic policies, which relate to satisfactory service and conduct becoming of a faculty member.
• Yavapai College requires that you use the official email address provided by Yavapai College. It is expected that you will monitor the email account regularly for official correspondence from Yavapai College and your Division and respond to students in a timely and professional manner.
• Attend required instructional-related meetings such as: orientation meetings, department or division meetings, other meetings as required.
• Attend meetings and workshops as may be necessary to obtain or renew certification or essential licensure requirements.
• Complete all required NEOED trainings on an annual basis.
• New adjunct faculty must complete the Teaching Online Readiness Course in Canvas within the first semester of teaching.
• Participate in professional development opportunities offered at Yavapai College, including orientation, workshops, trainings, Convocation and division and department meetings, as applicable.
• Other related duties as assigned.

*Unofficial transcripts/professional certifications must be attached when submitting the application.
Employment is on a non-continuing basis, and consecutive teaching assignments do not lead to probationary or continuing faculty status. Teaching assignments are part-time, on a semester basis only and may or may not be continued based on student enrollment and College need.
Minimum Expectations & Requirements
Faculty and instructional staff teaching courses in Career & Technical Education courses must hold an associate degree and document five years or 5,000 hours of current professional experience in the field or hold a license from a nationally recognized professional association and document five years or 5,000 hours of current professional experience in the field.
Exceptions are permitted on a case-by-case basis as determined by full-time faculty and appropriate Academic Dean, which are consistent with Higher Learning Commission (HLC) guidelines, that could include, but are not limited to: the achievement of academic credentials, progress toward academic credentials, equivalent experience, or some combination thereof.
Preferred Skills & Abilities

• Associate's degree and three years recent experience working in the fire industry; or 5 years recent field experience.
• To teach FSC 104 and FSC 105, instructors must be AZ State/National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) certified instructor I&II and AZ State instructor/evaluator.
• To teach FSC 155, instructors must also be qualified as a single resource boss or have authority to sign off students for third party wildland certification.
• Professional experience in a community college/higher education work environment.
• Experience with on-line learning systems such as Canvas.

Essential Functions
Successful candidates must be able to complete necessary duties satisfactorily. The requirements and competencies listed represent the required knowledge, skill, and ability. Regular attendance is a critical job responsibility as it demonstrates dependability in job duties.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to complete the conditions of this job.
Physical Demands
The successful candidate must meet the physical demands described to complete the conditions of this job. Essential and marginal functions may require physical fitness requirements necessary to perform the job functions with or without accommodation, such as the ability to participate in all physical fitness and physical training activities without restriction; lift or move over 100 pounds; operate motorized equipment and vehicles.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; talk and hear for four to eight hours depending on the class. The employee is occasionally required to use hands and fingers, to handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands or arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is regularly required to do moderate and occasionally heavy physical work including reaching, pulling, climbing a ladder or structure, bending. Ability to wear job-specific personal protective equipment including the potential use of self-contained breathing apparatus, and structural firefighting turn out gear in accordance with manufacturer specifications and applicable codes and standards.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to satisfy the needs of this job.
Work Environment
The work environment described represents those an employee encounters while fulfilling necessary job duties. The employee works in a classroom and outdoor training environment and may be regularly exposed to outdoor weather conditions, loud noise, electrical and moving equipment and a variety of fumes and airborne particles. Work may occasionally take place in a live fire training facility with potential immediately dangerous to life and health (IDLH) atmospheric conditions and high heat levels.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to satisfy the needs of this job.
Yavapai College offers its Adjunct employees the following comprehensive benefit package:

• Other Insurance Coverage: Workers' Compensation (compensation, medical expenses and death benefits for on-the-job injuries or occupational diseases)
• Unemployment Compensation: Employees who are laid off or terminated may receive benefits if covered wages meet requirements
• Direct Deposit: Paychecks deposited directly into the employee's bank account(s).
• Tuition Waiver: Adjunct faculty, their spouse and their dependent children (as defined by IRS administrative rulings regarding dependency) may enroll for six or fewer hours of Yavapai College for credit course work per semester without payment of tuition during the semester in which the adjunct faculty member is scheduled to teach a credited class.
• Additional Benefits and Services: Local community discounts to faculty and staff, mail and notary service.

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