Seasonal Academic Instructor - Residential

The University of Maine at Farmington (UMF) is seeking residential Academic Instructors to be part of the 2025 UMF Summer Upward Bound (UB) Program. This is an exciting opportunity to engage with high school students in innovative and creative ways. Instructors will teach in key subject areas, including math, science, English, world languages, and career and college development. The role offers the chance to advance students’ academic knowledge and foster skills that support long-term success—encouraging new learning approaches, perseverance, and the development of habits that will serve them in higher education and beyond.

Compensation: This full-time, seasonal position offers a weekly salary of $845.21. A typical work schedule runs from Sunday night through Friday afternoon. This position is grant-funded and contingent upon the continued availability of external funding.

Summer program dates: June 17, 2025, through July 25, 2025. Instructors are required to commit to a minimum of six (6) weeks, with the possibility of an additional week.

Position Responsibilities

• Coordinates pretests for placement as needed.
• Develops course curricula and daily lesson plans.
• Delivers daily lessons to students in multiple course sections via project-based learning, cooperative learning, lectures, group discussions, and workshops.
• Provides timely feedback to students on their work via written comments and individual meetings.
• Adapts curriculum to meet the needs of all students who need individualized instruction.
• Tutors students individually and in small groups during nightly study sessions and Common Time.
• Delivers Upward Bound Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum via Advisor Group facilitation on a weekly basis.
• Initiates and facilitates social and cultural activities.
• Provides students companionship, support, and positive role modeling.
• Supervises bedtime hours and sleeps in the dorm except on weekends and nights off.
• Writes comprehensive evaluations of each student to provide specific feedback about course performance and academic strengths and weaknesses.
• Participates in staff meetings to discuss program progress, planning, and student concerns.
  
  

Complete Job Description

Required Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree (expertise in one of the following areas: Mathematics, Science, English and Composition, World Languages, or Career Development/College Access)
• Teaching experience (minimum student teaching)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Teacher Certification
• Experience working with high school students
• Personal experience with, or understanding of, the challenges faced by low-income students who will be the first in their families to attend college
  
  

How To Apply

Materials must be submitted via the "Apply Now" below. You will be required to create an applicant profile and application. Additionally, you must upload the following:

• Cover Letter
• Resume
• List of three (3) professional references
  
  

Important Items To Know About The Recruitment Process

• Review of applications will begin at the close of business on March 5, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.
• We are not able to consider applicants who require visa sponsorship.
• Incomplete recruitment materials will not be considered.
• If materials are received after the recruitment deadline, review will be at the discretion of the University.
• The successful applicant is subject to appropriate background screenings.
  
  

In complying with the letter and spirit of applicable laws and pursuing its own goals of diversity, the University of Maine System does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, familial status, ancestry, age, disability physical or mental, genetic information or veterans or military status in employment, education, and all other programs and activities. The University provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies: Director of Equal Opportunity, 5713 Chadbourne Hall, Room 412, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5713, 207-581-1226. TTY 711 (Maine Relay System).