Instructor, Automotive Service Technology Ford Asset

aims; Windsor (CO); On-site; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Aims Community College is seeking a full-time Automotive Faculty member for a 9-month academic position beginning Spring 2027. The role focuses on teaching, curriculum development, and service to the college.

The faculty member will engage students, design learning experiences, and contribute to program goals across in-person and online formats. The position emphasizes professional development, collaboration, and maintaining high standards of student learning outcomes, with opportunities for

Qualifications

• Teaches automotive courses and supports student learning across modalities.
• Designs and updates course outcomes, materials, and assessments.

Responsibilities

• Teach automotive courses in a 9-month academic calendar.
• Deliver clear instruction for in-person and online formats.
• Develop and refine department curricula to maintain currency in pedagogy.
• Design, sequence, implement, and present learning experiences.
• Collaborate on diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments.
• Maintain office hours and timely grading; ensure assessment integrity.
• Participate in department, division, and institutional goals.
• Provide competent advising to students pursuing related degrees.

Skills

Teaching automotive

Curriculum design

Instructional delivery

Assessment design

Student engagement

Office hours management

Job description

Minimum Hiring Annual Salary: $51,856.00

Maximum Hiring Annual Salary: $72,250.00

Included with Aims Faculty full-time employment is a generous package of benefits, most are listed below:

• Benefits are effective immediately
• 100% employer provided medical & dental coverage employees (employee only option)
• 85% employer provided medical & dental coverage for employee's spouse and/or family
• Voluntary vision insurance
• Faculty Personal Leave (16 hours per year) & Sick (minimum accrual of 12 days)
• 166 days worked with deferred paid (Summer semester off)
• Employer paid long-term disability and life insurance premiums
• Tuition waiver & reimbursement for employees
• Tuition waiver for dependents
• PERA employer (see www.copera.org for comprehensive benefits)
• Additional supplemental benefits & retirement programs available
• Access to the PERC (Aims gym) for employee & one guest
• Free parking on all campuses

Full-Time, Faculty, 9-month Academic position - Automotive Faculty. This is a Full-Time, due process, benefited Faculty position beginning Spring 2027 Semester.

• The faculty member will conduct their assignments and co-curricular college activities in a manner consistent with the philosophy and purpose of Aims Community College as stated in the school catalog. The primary purpose of the faculty member is to teach. The faculty member is also responsible for professional development and service to the college.
• Teaching & Professional Obligations: 75% Interacting with students to provide opportunities to learn, creating conditions that facilitate learning, and using techniques and methods that create a high probability that learning will occur.
• Instructional Delivery: Providing clear communication of information and promoting learning through an effective learning environment.
• Instructional Design: Designing, sequencing, implementing, and presenting experiences which promote student learning (both in-person & online), and designing, developing, and implementing tools, technologies, and procedures for assessing student-learning outcomes.
• Collaborate in the development and implementation of diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments of learning for students.
• Provide effective and high-quality instruction of subject being taught.
• Apply learning-centered educational practices such as creating and communicating clearly-defined outcomes for student learning.
• Provide a diverse array of learning activities that directly tie to those defined outcomes.
• Use assessment data to improve instruction and learning, and participate in an ongoing College-Wide dialogue about teaching and learning.
• Develop and refine department curriculum as necessary to maintain currency in pedagogy and content.
• Adopt new teaching methodologies as appropriate.
• Implement department, division, and/or institutional goals as assigned.
• Maintain office hours, turn in grades on time, meet assigned classes.
• Submits course syllabi and other required documents on time.
• Manages the classroom facility.
• Keeps accurate attendance and grade records.
• Meets other professional obligations as stated in the Faculty Annual Plan and Evaluation.
• Other Duties as Assigned.

Scholarly & Creative Activities (Professional Development) & Service to the College: 25%

• Endeavors related to a faculty member's teaching assignment that contribute to the discovery, dissemination, and practical application of knowledge and/or skill.
• Acquire and/or maintain certification.
• Attend conferences, workshops, and/or training appropriate to one's field.
• Complete coursework related to one's teaching assignment.
• Create teaching methodology and instructional design.
• Other activities that contribute to keeping current in the content field.
• Helping the College meet the goals and objectives of its mission and strategic plan.
• Provide competent advising to students seeking AAS, AS, and/or AA Degrees and program