Part-Time Faculty Applied Geography Instructor

Montgomery College; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 15,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Montgomery College – Rockville Campus, seeks a part-timefaculty member in Applied Geography starting Fall 2026. The role involves teaching General Education geography courses across multiple delivery modes, using OERs to lower costs and enhance current content.

Faculty duties include instruction, assessment, and technology-enabled teaching. Ideal candidates have a Master’s in geography or related field, significant undergraduate teaching experience, and proficiency with Blackboard.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in geography or related discipline.
• Minimum of five years’ teaching experience at the undergraduate level.
• Ability to integrate technology and classroom-related computer software into course delivery.
• Experience in online or remote teaching utilizing Blackboard.
• Evidence of teaching or work experience in the field.
• Candidates must demonstrate currency in the social science (BSSD) and natural science (NSLD) courses as well as specialty courses in geography: Physical, Economic, Political, Global, Intro, Cultural, U.S. and Canada, Conservation and Cartography.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Faculty members are expected to have access to a personal computer with virus protection that can connect to the internet outside of the work location (i.e., office, classroom, college campus).
• Successful candidates will have a demonstrated commitment to promoting belonging, inclusion, and multicultural competence in an educational and work environment and must be willing to contribute to the Colleges strategic plan of inclusion.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without a sponsor.

Responsibilities

• Teach an array of General Education courses in geography, e.g. Introduction to Geography, Global Geography, Cultural Geography, Political Geography, and Physical Geography within the Department of Applied Technology.
• Teach a diverse schedule of courses that may include day, night, early morning, weekend, accelerated sections, online/remote, and summer courses.
• Engage students in their learning through active collaborative and innovative methods.
• Maintain office hours and meet with students outside of class to assist them as necessary.
• Mentor students so that they become successful academically and professionally.
• Apply culturally relevant pedagogies to the teaching and learning process.
• Incorporate the use of educational enterprise platform such as Blackboard and other relevant technology into instruction, including inexpensive or no-cost resources.
• Actively participate in Gamma Theta Upsilon, the geography honor society when appropriate.
• Teach on all three campuses as needed and/or online.

Job description

Montgomery College accepts applications for Adjunct/Part-timeFaculty on a continuous basis. Applications may be reviewedperiodically based on the student enrollment needs. The listing ofa course in the schedule of classes as “TBA” does not constitute anassignment. The hiring decision for part-time faculty involves anacademic judgment and shall be determined at Management’s solediscretion.

Job Description

Montgomery College – Rockville Campus, is seeking a part-timefaculty member in Applied Geography. This position will begin inthe Fall 2026 semester. We are seeking an individual who isenthusiastic, dedicated, self-motivated, and exhibits a high degreeof professionalism with a strong commitment to the success of ourstudents. The successful candidate must exhibit the ability toeducate in an engaging manner.

The candidate will be committed to teaching in a multi-cultural,two-year environment (i.e., a career program offering an A.A.S. inApplied Geography as well as certificates in Cartography/G.I.S. andGeographic Education) with students of all ages, varying levels ofeducation. Montgomery College provides an excellent opportunity toteach in a large, urban community college setting with threecampuses. Faculty duties include classroom instruction, assessment,and utilizing instructional technology. The majority of our coursesuse open educational resources (OERs) to yield cost savings for thestudents and the most current content for faculty. Incoming facultywill utilize OERs in alignment with the other faculty in thediscipline.

Teaching assignments may include various delivery modes, such asface-to-face, on-line, hybrid and/or blended formats during days,evenings and weekends. Montgomery College has three campuses.Faculty may be assigned to any of these campuses and/or teachingonline.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Teach an array of General Education courses in geography, e.g.Introduction to Geography, Global Geography, Cultural Geography,Political Geography, and Physical Geography within the Departmentof Applied Technology.
• Teach a diverse schedule of courses that may include day,night, early morning, weekend, accelerated sections, online/remote,and summer courses.
• Engage students in their learning through active collaborativeand innovative methods.
• Maintain office hours and meet with students outside of classto assist them as necessary.
• Mentor students so that they become successful academically andprofessionally.
• Apply culturally relevant pedagogies to the teaching andlearning process.
• Incorporate the use of educational enterprise platform such asBlackboard and other relevant technology into instruction,including inexpensive or no-cost resources in the development anddelivery of instruction.
• Actively and enthusiastically participate in Gamma ThetaUpsilon, the geography honor society when appropriate.
• Teach on all three campuses as needed when necessary as well asoff-campus courses.
• Ability to create and teach online courses and remotestructured teaching.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in geography or related discipline.
• Minimum of five years’ teaching experience at the undergraduatelevel
• Ability to integrate technology and classroom-related computersoftware into course delivery
• Experience in online or remote teaching utilizingBlackboard.
• Evidence of teaching or work experience in the field.
• Candidates must demonstrate currency in the social science(BSSD) and natural science (NSLD) courses as well as specialtycourses in geography: Physical, Economic, Political, Global, Intro,Cultural, U.S. and Canada, Conservation and Cartography.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Faculty members are expected to have access to a personalcomputer with virus protection that can connect to the internetoutside of the work location (i.e., office, classroom, collegecampus).
• Successful candidates will have a demonstrated commitment topromoting belonging, inclusion, and multicultural competence in aneducational and work environment and must be willing to contributeto the Colleges strategic plan of inclusion.
• Faculty members are expected to have access to a personalcomputer with virus protection that can connect to the internetoutside of the work location (i.e., office, classroom, collegecampus)*. Montgomery College (MC) provides an MC e-mail account andaccess to the learning platform, password-protected facultysections of the website, college listservs, and other facultycommunications tools. *If you do not have access to a personalcomputer, please notify the department chair at the time ofinterview. Subject to available funds, the college may be able toprovide temporary access to resources.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without asponsor.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior teaching experience at the community college level ingeography and cartography.
• Experience supporting students with varying levels ofpreparedness for college-level work.
• Demonstration of student engagement strategies that helpstudents succeed in the course.
• Strong background in the General Education courses ofgeography.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and leadershiproles.
• Experience leading academic initiatives.
• Member of and participation in Gamma Theta Upsilon.

For degrees earned outside of the U.S., a copy of your educationequivalency, conducted by a nationally recognized evaluationservice, must be included in your application.

Employees must live in Maryland or a state where the College has payroll reciprocity (DC, VA, PA, WV, DE, MA).

As a condition of employment, the following are required at thetime of hire:

• Successful completion of a background check and degreeverification (if applicable).

If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HumanResources and Strategic Talent Management at 240-567-5353 [e-mail] . We require at least twoweeks advance notice to enable us to provide the requestedaccommodation.

Montgomery College is an equal opportunity employer committed topromoting and fostering diversity among its student body, faculty,and staff.

Montgomery College is a tobacco-free and smoke-freeworkplace.

Closing Date

Monday, September 14, 2026