Full-Time Culinary Arts Instructor / Temporary

• Demonstrate multicultural competence (including an awareness and understanding of historically disadvantaged populations) and create an educational environment that affirms commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.  
• Effectively teach curriculum at a variety of skill levels and evaluate student progress towards learning objectives for the culinary arts program. 
• Create program-learning activities that supports individual student learning needs and the appropriate evaluation of student progress towards the learning objectives.  
• Design courses that include methods to meet food cost budget and daily production requirements. 
• Develop and update curriculum as required by the College to respond to industry trends and to improve equitable student outcomes.  
• Maintain office hours convenient to students.  
• Participate in recruiting and job placement activities for students with varied backgrounds and career goals.  
• Evaluate student progress towards attaining the learning outcomes, including thoughtfully designed individual assignments, projects, quizzes, and standardized tests. 
• Design inclusive instructional strategies, including classroom, small groups and individualized instruction, to reach all students, and select and evaluate the materials needed to implement these strategies.  

• Demonstrated leadership or participation in institutional programs with persons from diverse backgrounds such as sexual orientation, racial, ethnic, religious, linguistic, gender, age, socioeconomic, physical and learning abilities, and a commitment to an inclusive and equitable working / learning environment.  
• Five years of management experience in the culinary industry. Teaching experience and current knowledge in all phases of culinary arts preferred. 
• Ability to design learning experiences that are interactive and respectful of cultural differences. 
• Ability to work effectively and engage with adult learners as well as with individuals whose first language is not English. 
• Ability to obtain and maintain a food handler’s permit from the health department.  
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively as part of a team.  
• Have or acquire within 90 days of initial employment a current healthcare provider CPR, First Aid and Blood borne Pathogen Certificates. 
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally. 
• Experience and/or willingness to incorporate technology in the classroom.  
• Ability to proctor National Restaurant Association Serve-Safe certifications. 
• Associate degree in business, hospitality or other appropriate discipline preferred. 
• Demonstrated attention to detail required as well as previous experience maintaining accurate records, managing multiple tasks, and planning and organizing work in order to meet changing priorities and deadlines.  
• Ability to represent the college in a positive and professional manner, while using tact, discretion and courtesy.  
• Speaker of a language in addition to English is preferred– preference for top spoken languages in the RTC service area (Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, Somali, Chinese).  

In the interest of providing a healthy, safe and secure educational and work environment, and in order to meet the requirements of federal legislation, it is the policy of Renton Technical College to maintain an alcohol and drug-free workplace for our employees and students.

For questions regarding this position contact recruiting@rtc.edu.

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We acknowledge that RTC sits uninvited on the ancestral land of the Puget Salish people, including the Duwamish, Suquamish, Snoqualmie, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot Nations.  We are grateful to the original inhabitants of this land, upon which we gather and dialogue. We also acknowledge our increasingly virtual world, in which RTC’s work is done across multiple indigenous lands, in some cases, away from Puget Salish territories. We thank the original caretakers of our local lands and waters, who are still here.      

Beyond acknowledgment, we each have an obligation to learn about and support our local tribes. Find out how on our resources page, which includes scholarships for Indigenous students.  

Salary : $72,847